rEcess Night and More, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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rEcess night and more this week, so let’s go.

Last Saturday was one of those rare days when everything works and i get all the work done earlier than usual so i can have a longer visit with Grandma, which makes us both thankful.

I also got back to town in plenty of time to vote, another privilege for which i am very thankful.

Our Sunday walk with Becca and Mr. Cal was blessed with good, cool weather, just before the rain.

Monday evening #2 Son and His Bride had to attend his corporate headquarters' Christmas party, and i was blessed to spend several hours with my little Annie, and as if that were not enough, i watched her on Tuesday as well while her mama worked.  It’s always a thankful to be with the granddaughter.

Monday was also the day Sweetie “had a feeling” Slow-Moe needed to be serviced and it was a good thing, as it must have a slow oil leak and it was very, very low.  We didn’t lose the car, and we are beyond thankful as it could have easily happened.

Also, we’re thankful Kevin and Lenny told him it’s not time for an oil change, they topped it up at no charge and we only had to pay for new wiper blades.

The rain on Monday morning came in such a prodigious amount we watched helplessly as our newspaper floated away!  Sweetie said he’d get one while he was out but kept forgetting, finally stopping late that night to get one.  Then he came home grumping about the cost.

The cost tipped me off, he had bought a Sunday paper as they were out of the Monday ones!  He and i were thankful to have a good laugh over it, as he is notorious for not paying attention to some details.

We were also thankful on Thursday a small store we go to before Ms. SE’s house had an extra Monday paper lying around and the manager gave it to us free.

Sweetie has also gotten very good at folding towels and pants and shorts, and can help me with the prodigious amount of clothing we sometimes have to fold there and i and my back are very thankful.

Now, rEcess.  We're thankful we had food, we're thankful we had tons and tons of running in the halls, so much i couldn't catch pictures, we're thankful we had playing the gym, and singing, artwork, and more cookies than the law should allow.  In other words, it was wonderful and we are all very, very thankful.

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:

AKC/Royal Canin National Championships -- Orlando, FL, US (top dogs from around the world compete to see -- who really is top dog? through tomorrow)

Ako Gishi sai -- Ako, Japan (traditional dances and warrior parades honoring the 47 Ronin)

Buy a Tree Day / Deck the Halls Day -- internet generated, and if you are going to decorate, why did you wait this long?

Christmas Bird Count begins -- sponsored by the National Audubon Society (through Jan. 5; since 1900, the longest-running wildlife census to assess the health of bird populations)

Free Shipping Day -- snoop around online to find retailers who are offering free shipping today and get some of those gifts you've been putting off    

Halcyon Days begin -- a time of calm and tranquility (beginning seven days before the winter solstice, lasting until December 28, seven days after the solstice; named for an ancient fabled kingfisher bird [or halcyon], which hatches and raise her young during this time)

Icelandic Yuletide Lad of the Day, Stufur -- Shorty, who is also known as Ponneskefill, the pan-scraper, who will scrape food scraps from the pans left out

Khoiak Ceremony for Ploughing the Earth -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Monkey Day -- unofficial, by animal groups, to draw attention to the plights of simians kept in labs and as pets 

National Bouillabaisse Day

National Energy Conservation Day -- India

Precalentines Day -- an unofficial holiday for math lovers begun by a precalculus class at a Nova Scotia high school

South Pole Discovery Day -- thank you, Roald Amundsen

St. John of the Cross' Day (Patron of contemplative life, contemplatives, mystical theology, mystics, Spanish poets; Ta' Xbiex, Malta)

St. Spyridon's Day (Patron of Corfu, Greece, and potters)

 

Anniversaries Today:

Alabama becomes the 22nd US State, 1819

Princess Mary Stuart is crowned Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542

Birthdays Today:

Samantha Peszek, 1991

Vanessa Hudgens, 1988

Paul "Beakman" Zaloom, 1951

Bill Buckner, 1949

Dee Wallace Stone, 1948

Patty Duke, 1946

Jane Birkin, 1946

Ernie Davis, 1939

Leonardo Boff, 1938

Lee Remick, 1935

Charlie Rich, 1932

Don Hewitt, 1922

Shirley Jackson, 1919

Morey Amsterdam, 1914

Spike Jones, 1911

Margaret Madeline Chase Smith, 1897

James Harold Doolittle, 1896

Debuting/Premiering Today:

Saturday Night Fever(Film), 1977

Diamonds are Forever(Film), 1971

"Il Trittico"(Puccini opera), 1918

Today in History:

Osman ibn Affan is appointed the third kalief of Islam, 644

The Zuider Zee seawall collapses, 50,000 lives are lost in the floods that follow, 1287

The first artificial pearls, made of gypsum pellets covered with fish scales, are manufactured by M Jacquin in Paris, 1656

The Montgolfier brothers' first balloon lifts off on its first test flight, 1782

David Wilkinson of Rhode Island patents a machine that cuts nuts and bolts, 1798

The American Academy of Political and Social Science is organized in Philadelphia, 1889

The Commercial Pacific Cable Company lays the first Pacific telegraph cable, from Ocean Beach, San Francisco to Honolulu, Hawaii, 1902

Norwegian Roald Amundsen becomes the first to reach the South Pole, 1911

Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Libya, Nepal, Portugal, Romania, Spain and Sri Lanka join the United Nations, 1955

The United Republic of Tanzania joins the United Nations. 1961

NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus, 1962

Kiribati, Nauru and Tonga join the United Nations, 1999

The Millau viaduct, the tallest bridge in the world, near Millau, France is officially opened, 2004

China's first lunar rover, the Yutu, lands successfully on the Moon, 2013

The Vatican announces it has rediscovered the lost last paintings of Rafael, painted around 1520, in the Vatican Museum, 2017

The Walt Disney Company buys most of 21st Century Fox for $52.4 billion, 2017

The 85th Heisman Trophy is awarded to Joe Burrow of Louisiana State University; Burrow received the highest percentage of first place votes ever with 90.7%, 2019

A total solar eclipse is visible over parts of Chile and Argentina, 2020

The European Union agrees to open membership negotiations with Ukraine at a summit in Brussels, 2023