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rEcess night, so I’ll be brief.
#2 Son and His Bride have bought the RV they want to use when they move to Alaska next year. They got it over to the house to park overnight and I got to see it and the baby. We’re thankful plans are moving forward.
Mr. Cal and Becca and i had a very long walk Sunday morning, as there was only one church service and it started an hour later than our usual one. We were thankful for that, for a lovely Kirkin’ o’ the Tartans, and for the meal after.
The meal after was funny, they served chicken and waffles. Sweetie loathes waffles (too crisp) and i’m a vegetarian so we were thankful they let him have the chicken and i had the waffle and like Mr. and Mrs. Jack Sprat, we licked the platter clean.
Mr. J and Ms. A’s satsumas are in and they gave us a bag, that’s a yummy thankful.
Monday, Ms. D had me open the “door of doom” which she’d taped closed and i’m thankful it wasn’t too bad in there (it’s a solid door and a “screen” door with glass), i got all the build up out and we resealed it.
Mr. DS was working at home Thursday and we got to have some great conversations, i’m also thankful he was there to get Emmie back when she escaped the back yard.
Ms. JAI has kept cancelling on me as she has PT on Monday, and i was able to finally talk to her. We were thankful for a great conversation and she agreed i’m coming next Monday whether PT is there or not.
And, of course, rEcess.
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Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Clark and his co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
All Souls' Day -- Christian (celebrations in Ecuador are among the most colorful; 2nd of the Dias de los Muertos in Mexico) related observances:
Dead Relatives' Day -- Sicily
Dia de Finados -- Brazil; Portugal
Aztec Day of the Dead -- Ancient Aztec Calendar (date approximate)
Balfour Declaration Day -- Israel
Children's Day -- Malaysia
Chinggis Khan's (Genghis Khan) Birthday -- Mongolia (also National Pride Day)
Cookie Monster's Birthday -- go have a cookie to celebrate! (but only after your dinner, as Cookie Monster now points out; boy, things have changed)
Coronation of Haile Selassie -- Rastafarian
Deepavali/Diwali(Festival of Lights) -- Hindu; Jain; Sikh (fifth day of the festival)
Bhai Tika -- ritual where sisters honor brothers for the protection they give
Gyan Panchami -- Jain (celebration of knowledge and education)
Digital Scrapbooking Day -- it certainly takes up less room than the other kinds!
Dveselu Diena -- Ancient Latvian Calendar (day for families to gather with the spirits of their ancestors at the graveyard to celebrate the continuity of life)
Fall Back Night -- all areas that end Daylight Saving Time tomorrow; set your clock back one hour before you go to bed and change the batteries in your smoke alarms/carbon monoxide detectors (Bermuda; Canada (most areas); Cuba; Greenland (some areas); Haiti; Mexico (Baja area); Saint Pierre and Miquelon; The Bahamas; Turks and Caicos Islands; US (most areas))
Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Indian Arrival Day / Arrival of Indentured Laborers' Day -- Mauritius
International Day to End Impunity -- International (calling for the ending impunity for crimes against journalists and media workers)
Karatsu Kunchi -- Karatsu and Saga, Japan
Look for Circles Day -- internet generated, and we run in circles looking for who created it and why!
National Deviled Egg Day
Potting-Shed Investitures -- Fairy Calendar (Garden Fairies)
Plan Your Epitaph Day -- sponsored by Dead or Alive of Arcata, CA, because a forgettable epitaph is almost a fate worse than death, so make plans to do yours right!
Practice Being Psychic Day -- but you already knew that, didn't you?
Refuse to Capitalize the First Letters in Your Name Day -- k.d.lang's birth anniversary
Soulcaker's Play -- Cheshire, UK
St Eustachius' Day (Patron of difficult situations, fire prevention, firefighters, hunters and hunting, torture victims, trappers; Madrid, Spain; Poli, Italy; against fire and torture)
Anniversaries Today:
North Dakota becomes the 39th US State, 1889
South Dakota becomes the 40th US State, 1889
Birthdays Today:
k.d. lang, 1961
Shere Hite, 1942
Stephanie Powers, 1942
Pat Buchanan, 1938
Ray Walston, 1914
Burt Lancaster, 1913
Paul Ford, 1901
Warren G. Harding, 1865
James K. Polk, 1795
Marie Antionette, 1755
Daniel Boone, 1734
Debuting/Premiering Today:
The Spruce Goose makes its first (only) flight, 1947
KDKA Radio Pittsburgh, PA, US makes the first scheduled radio broadcast, of election results, 1920
Today in History:
The African Free School, the first free school in NYC, opens, 1787
The popular vote for US president is first recorded and Andrew "By God" Jackson (a/k/a Old Hickory) defeats John Quincy Adams, 1824
New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, 1868
Johnny Campbell officially leads the crowd in cheering at a University of Minnesota football game, the official birth of cheerleading, 1898
The British newspaper the "Daily Mirror" begins publication, 1903
The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities", 1917
Charlotte Woodward, who attended the historic Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention of 1848, becomes the only one of the women who attended to live long enough to cast a vote in a national election, 1920
Australia's Qantas Airways begins service, 1922
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established, 1936
In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built, 1947
Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case, 1960
The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT, 1988
The International Space Station becomes permanently staffed, 2000
China makes its first orbital docking as its unmanned Shenzhou 8 spacecraft successfully docks with the orbiting Tiangong 1 space station module, 2011
The New York Marathon is cancelled due to the damage from Hurricane Sandy, 2012
Separatists in Eastern Ukraine hold elections in Donetsk and Luhansk; Russia will recognize the elected leaders, but Ukraine and Western nations declare the elections illegitimate, 2014
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia's honours system, 2015
The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest MLB championship drought at 108 years, 2016
The government of Ethiopia and Tigrayan authorities reach a peace agreement after two years of talks in South Africa, 2021
Apple Records releases the last Beatles song "Now and Then;” the song was built from an unfinished John Lennon demo and created using AI technology, 2023
rEcess is your happy place. Hard work but definitely happy.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your good works.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
Those are really good thankfuls and rEcess is such a blessing.
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely turnout for rEcess! Your son and dil are moving that far away and taking the baby! If only the baby could be in 2 places at one time, lol.
ReplyDeleteAlaska is so far away. :( I love rEcess. XO
ReplyDeleteAlaska sounds exciting to us Siberian Huskies, but so far away from you:(. Now you will have reason to travel to see the wee one.
ReplyDeleteWe don't know what rEcess is , but it looks like you are doing a lot of good for some peeps there.
Woos - Misty and Timber
Here's my Alaska bear advice. If it's brown, lay down. If it's black, fight back and don't plan your camping trips in August. That's when the bears are out looking for food. And, that's all I know about that. - That World Series was amazing, especially for us Cubs fans. - I did not know that it was the Cookie Monster's birthday today but I will have one to celebrate! - I am thankful for you Mimi.
ReplyDeleteI like how you were both able to enjoy together the chicken and waffles.
ReplyDeleteThat was my comment.
DeleteThey're moving to Alaska? That's quite the climate change for them! The door of doom has me wondering..
ReplyDeleteThe rEcess costumes are really good, I'm glad everyone has a nice time there.
Interesting thankfuls once again!
ReplyDeleteLots of great thankfuls and fun for the children ~ hugs,
ReplyDeleteWishing you good health, laughter and love in your days ~
clm ~ A ShutterBug Explores,
aka (A Creative Harbor)
The chicken and waffles sounds very interesting. Maybe if they were served with gravy then your "sweetie' would be able to eat them?
ReplyDeleteLulu: "An RV sounds like a nice way to travel. Our friends Rosy and Sunny have one and they get to go places with their parents and it's like they don't even have to leave the house."
ReplyDeleteCharlee: "If we cats were going to travel, that'd be the only way we'd do it."
I remember from back in the early days online, there'd be a discussion comparing friends from online and those in the 'real' world. I used to offer that, there's no difference between the two because at some point online friends would say, "...and remember the time you wrote about his first day of school?"
ReplyDeleteI'll add: seeing the first photo I immediately thought, "Hey! It's rExcess already?"
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