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There's been a bit of zig-zaging this week, and i'm thankful it's all working out.
Last Saturday, we had to work around some of the furniture at Grandma and Grandpa's house, it seems they may still have a mouse problem. We're thankful for a close family friend who is an exterminator who will make sure it gets taken care of, hopefully sooner rather than later.
Sunday found me and Becca searching high and low for her coat since the weather was raw and cold. We had to make do with a different one we were thankful was available, and Mr. Cal was thankful we stayed out in the weather long enough for him to get a visit with a couple of his friends.
My evening plans changed when #2 Son called, he and His Bride needed some time out of the house. Could i be there with the baby? But of course, i was thankful to do so.
Ms. V had plans to be away this week, so on Monday i was thankful she pre-wrote checks for me for the next two visits, when she was scheduled to be out of town.
We had our ladies' meeting Monday evening, we'd had to switch whose house it would be at, but we were thankful to enjoy dinner and each other's company, no matter who hosted.
Tuesday i was with the baby when i got a call from #1 Son, his car was having trouble yet again! I was thankful Sweetie answered his phone and was able to meet #1 Son at Kevin and Lenny's to get him home, then switch some plans around and arrange to take him to work Wednesday.
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| Always thankful to see this little lady. |
I was also thankful to be able to switch things up a bit on Wednesday so i could get some shopping done after the cat shelter and still get to work on time, and i was thankful Sweetie met me there and got the shopping home to the fridge.
Because of an appointment on Thursday, i was going to go to Ms. V's at 6am as usual, and because she was supposed to be out of town and Mr. L is usually in his chair by that time, i was going to take care of the bedroom first, go to my appointment, then come back and finish up the rest of the house.
Ms. V was not gone due to a change in plan, so my plans changed, too. I was thankful to still get to my appointment and get the work done, as well as manage to get home by a reasonable time.
The cat shelter was so packed out on Friday i had to zig-zag, along with Ms. M, to get around everyone and get all the caretaking done. We were thankful for the increase in activity, as it meant we had extra volunteers and 7 (yes, seven!) adoptions.
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:
Anniversary of the Founding of Lima -- Lima, Peru
Confession of St. Peter -- Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, and Anglican Christian
Feast of the Chair of St. Peter -- Roman Catholic Church (celebrated as the founding of the papacy)
Feast of Neith -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (goddess of war and hunting)
Four an' Twenty Day -- Scotland (24 days after Christmas)
Gasparilla Extravaganza -- Tampa, FL, US (the rum free version of the Pirate Festival celebration, with a kid's parade and lots of fun; the adult version is next Saturday)
Hair Dryer Appreciation Day -- no history on this, but if you love your hair dryer, more power to you
Jazz Day -- Jazz gets recognized, it plays the Met!
Learn to Ski Day -- always the 3rd Saturday of January, and you go right ahead
National Peking Duck Day
Revolution Day -- Tunisia
Royal Thai Armed Forces Day -- Thailand (former Siam)
Santa Prisca Day -- Taxco, Mexico
Thesaurus Day -- birth anniversary of Peter Roget
UFO Day -- see the history section, 1644
Unsliced Bread Day -- from this day in 1943, until the war ended, US bakers sold only unsliced bread loaves so no steel had to be diverted from the war effort for slicing machine blades
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity -- Christian (from the celebration of the Confession of St. Peter to the celebration of the Conversion of St. Paul, Jan. 25)
Winnie the Pooh Day -- birth anniversary of Winnie's author A.A. Milne
Anniversaries Today:
Wesley College, Melbourne is established, 1866
Henry VII of England weds Elizabeth, daughter of Edward IV, 1486
Birthdays Today:
Jason Segal, 1980
Dave Bautista, 1969
Jesse L. Martin, 1969
Jane Horrocks, 1964
Kevin Costner, 1955
Bobby Goldsboro, 1941
Davis Eli "David" Ruffin, 1941
Curtis Charles (Curt) Flood, 1938
Ray Dolby, 1933
Evelyn Lear, 1931
John Boorman, 1930
Constance Moore, 1920
Danny Kaye, 1913
Cary Grant, 1904
Oliver Hardy, 1892
A.A. Milne, 1882
Dr. Daniel Hale Williams, 1856 (The African-American doctor who performed the first open heart surgery.)
Thomas A. Watson, 1854 ("Come here, Watson, I need you," said Bell)
Peter Mark Roget, 1779
Daniel Webster, 1782
Daigo, Emperor of Japan, 885
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"The Jeffersons"(TV), 1975
"Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour"(TV), 1948
"The Nose"(Shostakovich' opera), 1930
Today in History:
Emperor Huizong abdicates the Chinese throne in favour of his son Emperor Qinzong, 1126
Francisco Pizarro founds Lima, Peru, 1535
The first documented UFO sighting in America, by some very perplexed pilgrims in Boston, 1644
Pirate Henry Morgan defeats the Spanish defenders and captures Panama, 1670
San Jose, California is founded, 1777
Captain James Cook stumbles upon the Sandwich Islands (Hawai'i), 1778
The first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from England to Australia arrives at Botany Bay, 1788
Electro-Magnetic Intelligencer, the first US electrical journal, begins publication, 1840
Dr. William Price attempts to cremate the body of his infant son, J. C. Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom, 1884
Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England, 1886
The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time, 1896
President Theodore Roosevelt sends a radio message to King Edward VII: the first transatlantic radio transmission originating in the United States, 1903
The first shipboard landing of a plane (Tanforan Park to USS Pennsylvania, flown by Eugene B. Ely), 1911
English explorer Robert F Scott & his expedition reach South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there before, 1912
Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia, 1915
A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite strikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri, 1916
The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City hosts a jazz concert for the first time. The performers were Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden, 1944
Willie O'Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut, 1958
A Disengagement of Forces agreement is signed between the Israeli and Egyptian governments, ending conflict on the Egyptian front of the Yom Kippur War, 1974
Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease, 1977
Phil Smith and Phil Mayfield parachute off a Houston skyscraper, becoming the first two people to BASE jump from objects in all four categories: buildings, antennae, spans (bridges), and earth (cliffs), 1981
The International Olympic Committee restores Jim Thorpe's Olympic medals to his family, 1983
Boerge Ousland of Norway becomes the first person to cross Antarctica alone and unaided, 1997
The Tagish Lake meteorite impacts the Earth, 2000
Sierra Leone Civil War is finally declared over, 2002
A bushfire kills 4 people and destroys more than 500 homes in Canberra, Australia, 2003
The Airbus A380, the world's largest commercial jet, is unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France, 2005
Hurricane Kyrill becomes one of Western Europe's deadliest storms, 2007
An amateur astronomer in Peterborough, England, discovers a new, Neptune-sized exoplanet, 2012
For the first time ever, lifeguards in Australia rescue endangered swimmers with a drone, using it to drop a rescue pod flotation device, 2018
Indonesia's parliament approves bill to relocate its capital to Borneo and change the city's name to Nusantara (archipelago), 2022
A series of atmospheric river storms pummeling California finally subside, after more than 500 mudslides with "extensive" damage to 40 out of 58 counties, 2023
NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter, the first aircraft to fly on another world, stops working after three years on Mars and 72 flights (originally expected to make five flights), 2024
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