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Last Saturday was a good one for Grandma and we left her happy to be talking to a friend, and i was thankful because leave taking is hard.
Then i got home in time for Red-Headed Alec and company to come by for a nice visit. He and Libby and the baby and Lee, i was very thankful to see them all.
Our little Annie seemed entranced with the baby. She's 8 months, and Emmy is 2 months, and Annie just wanted to pet her head over and over, but we had to stop her when she tried to grab hair, which is one of her favorite things to do right now.
Sunday morning ended up being a bit different. Ms. A has been a bit overwhelmed lately, so when she suggested she and Becca attend the later service, i agreed and stayed with Becca while Ms. A got a good bike ride she'd been needing and then a shower. I was thankful to help her as she felt so much better after, then i was thankful to get to church in time for the sermon.
Monday my Sweetie and i were both thankful to be able to help #1 Son get his car serviced, with my Sweetie getting him to work and me paying for it and getting the key before the shop closed, then going and picking him up from work.
He was thankful to get the work done before going to see Grandma on Tuesday.
Monday evening was also a very important meeting for our neighborhood civic association. I was thankful to stay with our little Annie while her parents went to the meeting and then reported back to me.
To cut a long story very short, our school across the street is being closed and the school board is not sure what to do with the building. We've got plans in place to figure out how to use it for the community in a positive way and not let it become simply another empty building. We're thankful our area is trying to get its own school district and reopen it in a couple of years.
I actually got to sleep an extra hour on Tuesday and i was very thankful. Then babysitting, and then another eye doctor appointment.
The eye doc says all the inflammation in my eye is gone and i'm very thankful. Now comes the real test, if it stays gone without the meds, i will not need a corrective surgery. The next check up is in June, and if all is still well, we can schedule my other cataract surgery.
Tuesday evening, i was thankful to be with the baby again while her parents took a sushi making class. Now they can pay me in avocado rolls!
Ms. G had us crammed in the tiny room with the Goof Off solvent/cleaner on Wednesday and i'm thankful i didn't pass out. That stuff is powerful.
Yet again Wednesday night i was thankful to have the baby while her parents went to a concert. We had a nice evening and she went to sleep at 9:15 and stayed asleep even when her parents got home, not waking until the next morning.
Ms. V and Kevin and Lenny's place now get done on the same day once a month, two of my biggest jobs in one day, and i'm thankful after 3 late nights in a row i was able to do it!
The cat shelter was mildly busy last night, with people looking to adopt and enough help to get all the cats cared for and finished early.
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:
Aldersgate Day -- Methodism
ARMAD: Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day -- US ("Ham it up for the troops!" is the motto of amateur ham radio operators on the Saturday before Memorial Day)
Battle of Pichincha Day -- Ecuador
Bermuda Day -- Bermuda
Brooklyn Bridge Day -- the most often sold bridge in the US (or so i've been told) opened on this day in 1883
Brother's Day -- celebrate all forms of brotherhood, biological, adopted, fraternity brothers, or members of your labor union
European Day of Parks -- Europe
Feast of Hermes Trismegistus -- Hellenistic Egyptian Calendar (thrice-blessed Hermes, patron of alchemy, date approximate)
Independence Day -- Eritrea(1993)
International Blacksmith's Day
International Jazz Day -- date as originally set by the New Jersey Jazz Society, on the Saturday before US Memorial Day
International Tiara Day -- ladies, celebrate your powers of leadership in your life; tiara wearing is optional, it's the fact that you rule that matters
Julia Pierpont Day -- US (she came up with Decoration Day, the precursor to US Memorial Day; spend time today to prepare veterans' graves for Memorial Day)
La Fete des Saintes Maries -- Les-Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, France (Roma [gypsy] festival, to honor St. Sara, St. Marie Jacobe, and St. Marie Salome, their patrons; through the 25th)
Little Lamb Day -- publication anniversary, in 1830, of the original poem "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
Lubiri Memorial Day -- Buganda Region, Uganda
Morse Code Day -- anniversary of Morse's first message in 1844 (Morse Code Day is also celebrated on his birth anniversary, April 27)
National Escargot Day
Sara-la-Kali -- St. Sara, or St. Sara the Black's Day -- patron of the Roma (Gypsy) Peoples (pilgrimage)
Skerpla Month begins -- Traditional Icelandic Calendar (Sharpness)
Sts. Cyril and Methodius's Day (Orthodox Church celebration; Patrons of Macedonia) related observances
Bulgarian Education and Culture and Slavonic Literature Day -- Bulgaria
Slavonic Enlighteners' Day -- Republic of Macedonia
St. Susanna's Day (Patron of martyrs)
Yom HaShoah -- Judaism (Holocaust Remembrance Day; began sunset yesterday, ends at nightfall)
Birthdays Today:
Billy Gilman, 1988
Alyson Hannigan, 1974
Joe Dumars, 1963
Kristin Scott Thomas, 1960
Rosanne Cash, 1955
Alfred Molina, 1953
Jim Broadbent, 1949
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, 1945
Patti LaBelle, 1944
Gary Burghoff, 1943
Bob Dylan, 1941
Tommy Chong, 1938
Lilli Palmer, 1914
"Engineer Bill" Stulla, 1911
Samuel I. Newhouse, 1895
Lillian Moller Gilbreth, 1878
Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, 1819
Emanuel Leutze, 1816
Abraham Geiger, 1810
Gabriel Fahrenheit, 1686
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Spy Hard(Film), 1996
Indiana Jones and Last Crusade(Film), 1989
View to a Kill(film), 1985
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"(Single release), 1968
"Mame"(Musical), 1966
"Le roi l'a Dit / The King Has Spoken"(Opera), 1873
Today in History:
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt, 1218
Peter Minuit buys Manhattan, 1626
The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants; Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded, 1689
John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day, 1738
Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito, 1822
"Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published, 1830
The first passenger rail service in US, from Baltimore to Elliots Mill, Maryland, begins, 1830
Samuel FB Morse taps out the first telegraph message, "What hath God wrought", 1844
The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction, 1883
The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State, 1900
Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight), 1930
Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight, 1940
Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Pari nibbana, 1956
Cyprus enters the Council of Europe, 1961
FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City, 1968
The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union, 1970
The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran, 1980
Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia, 1991
Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel, 1991
15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest, 2001
North Korea bans mobile phones, 2004
London's Metropolitan police remove belongings and sleeping bags of homeless people as part of 'a policy of reducing the impact of rough sleepers on the community', 2013
Kaduna state in Nigeria declares a state of emergency as a moth has destroyed 80% of the tomato crops and factories are shutting down, 2016
The world's largest cat-proof fence (44km) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protect endangered species, 2018
Millions of 17-year cicadas emerge in the US South, posing crop danger and noise issues, 2020
A constitutional crisis deepens in Samoa after the Speaker of the House shuts out Fiame Naomi Mata’afa from being sworn in as the country's first female leader in 56 years, 2021
The journal Nature publishes a report of a Swiss team which used a neurological link to help a paralyzed person walk naturally for the first time in 10 years, 2023
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