Cold And Good, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's a cold Thankful Day in the swamps.  There's my first thankful, although i am not a huge fan of the cold -- it's not A/C weather yet!

In fact, there's another thankful, friends with a sense of humor who send you funny stuff.

I would recommend adding Late Summer between False Fall and Actual Fall.  There's always a heat wave in there somewhere between them.

Last Saturday, Grandma really, really wanted a baked potato for lunch from one of her favorite restaurants.  They have a problem with their website, sometimes potatoes aren't available to be ordered, even when they have it available.

Usually a quick call resolves it and gets them up on the website, but not last Saturday.  To get her potato, I had to go to the restaurant to place the order.

It took a long time out of my cleaning time, so while i am thankful she got what she wanted, i'm also thankful this doesn't happen often.

Becca has been having a bit of a rough time lately with her medication adjustment and seemed a bit upset Sunday, for a little while.  I'm thankful it was easily resolved with a change of scenery.

Ms. D had called to say she would be at a hair appointment on Monday when i am usually there, would i be willing to let myself in and do whatever list she left?  Of course, i was thankful and happy to do so.

While i wasn't able to visit her on Valentine's Day, Ms. JAI has been on my mind as i knew her children wouldn't have done anything for her.  I was thankful to finally get over there to clean and also to bring her the Valentine's Day flowers i picked up for her.  

She enjoyed arranging them and i enjoyed watching her.

Also, the closet is fixed where she ran the car through the wall, we're thankful she can access all her clothes again and her daughter did come in town and help her get it all rehung.

Tuesday is when i usually make appointments and i had two this week.  Dr. BowTie is always worried about my sodium levels being low, so i went in and got a blood draw, it is low normal and he's happy.

The other was for a second opinion on my eye, which reassured me while it's not been easy, the surgery was successful and eventually my vision should finish clearing up.

After the appointments is the best time of a Tuesday, babysitting!

I'm always thankful to spend time with my little Annie.

After traipsing around in the yard at Ms. G's on Wednesday, in my boots, coats, hat, gloves and etc., i was thankful to spend most of the day indoors with her doing the dusting.  Boring and tedious, but i was thankful to be able to listen as she told stories she probably needed to get out.

Also on Wednesday, the dash of my car went dark again, signaling it's time for a new battery.  This one is two years old and we've had an unusually rough winter, i'm thankful it didn't just quit, but chose to let me know it's going bad in time to not get stranded.

This was why, Thursday morning, we were first in line at Kevin and Lenny's, and they replaced the battery while my Sweetie and i cleaned Ms. SE's house.  I'm always thankful for their service.

I'm also thankful, this week, we managed to save the fish.  Sweetie was in the kitchen and managed to knock something over, breaking the fishbowl.  Scooping the poor betta fish into a cup and filling it with water, i texted Ms. SE to find out where the water conditioner was, which removes the chlorine from the water and makes it possible for the fish to survive in it long term.

He seems to have come through unscathed, thankfully.

We were also near where my phone was repaired, so we stopped in and ordered a new screen for my Sweetie's phone.  I'm thankful they will have it soon and install it while he waits, no need for him to be without his, unlike when mine went down for the count and had to stay in the tech hospital.

Friday was quite busy and we're thankful for extra volunteers at the shelter, and lots of people looking and adopting.

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Today is:

Abu Simbel Festival -- Egypt (one of the two days a year when the light illuminates the statutes of Rameses, Ra and Amun in the temple complex)

     Festival of the Perpendicular Sun/Illumination of the Inner Sanctum of Ramses II's Abu Simbel Temple -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar

Be Humble Day -- can't find the origin of this one, s/he wants to humbly remain anonymous

Cat Day -- Japan (an unofficial celebration of felines, because today's date in Japanese sounds almost like "nyan, nyan, nyan" ("meow, meow, meow")

Concordia/Caristia  -- Ancient Roman Calendar, Festival of Goodwill

Feast of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch -- Roman Catholic Church

Independence Day -- Santa Lucia(1979)

International World Thinking Day -- a/k/a "B.-P. day" or "Founder's Day" -- World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

     Girl Guides Day -- UK

International Sword Swallowers Day   

National Margarita Day (How is that going to help with the thinking?)

Open That Bottle Night -- time to finally drink that bottle of wine you've been saving for a special occasion; after all, the final Saturday in February only comes once a year (sponsored by Dorothy J. Gaiter and John Brecher of The Wall Street Journal)

St. Margaret of Cortona's Day (Patron of falsely accused people, hoboes, homeless people, mentally ill people, midwives, penitent women, people ridiculed for their piety, reformed prostitutes, single laywomen, tertiaries, and tramps; against insanity, loss of parents, mental illness, sexual temptation, and temptation)

Washington's Birthday -- US

Anniversaries Today:

Ed McMahon marries Pamela Hurn, 1992

Kurt Corbin marries Courtney Love, 1992

Bill Bixby marries Laura Michael, 1991

Pennsylvania State University is founded in State College, Pennsylvania, 1855

Washington University in St. Louis is founded, 1853

Birthdays Today:

James Blunt, 1977

Drew Barrymore, 1975

Michael Chang, 1972

Lea Salonga, 1971

Clinton Kelly, 1969

Jeri Ryan, 1968

Vijay Singh, 1963

Steve "Crocodile Hunter" Irwin, 1962

Kyle MacLachlan, 1959

Julie Walters, 1950

Julius "Dr. J" Erving, 1950

Miou-Miou, 1950

Dan Millman, 1946

Jonathan Demme, 1944

Sparky Anderson, 1934

Edward M. Kennedy, 1932

Paul Dooley, 1928

Robert Wadlow, 1918

John Mills, 1908

Sheldon Leonard, 1907

Robert Young, 1907

Luis Bunuel, 1900

Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892

"Chico" Marx, 1891

Lady Olave Baden-Powell, 1889

Lord Robert Baden-Powell, 1857

James Russel Lowell, 1819

Frederic Chopin, 1810

Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788

George Washington, 1732

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"It Happened One Night"(Film), 1934

"Lady Windermere's Fan"(Play), 1892

"Symphony No. 4 in F minor"(Tchaikovsky Op. 36), 1878

Today in History:

Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland, 1349

Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published, 1632

The English House of Lords rules that authors do not have perpetual copyright of their material, 1774

Jews are expelled from the outskirts of Warsaw, Poland, 1775

The first US ship to trade with China, the "Empress of China," sails from New York, 1784

The Last Invasion of Britain by the French begins near Fishguard, Wales, 1797

Spain signs the Adams-Onis Treaty, renouncing its claim to the Oregon territory and west Florida, 1819

Spain sells east Florida to the US, 1821

Edward Payson Weston, "The Father of Modern Pedestrianism," who gave lectures on the health benefits of walking, first comes into the public eye by leaving on this date to walk to Lincoln's inauguration, a distance of 478 miles, 1861*

Frank W. Woolworth opens the first US chain store, his  "Woolworth's" 5 and 10 cent store, in Utica, NY, 1879

John Reid of Scotland establishes a 3 hole golf course near Yonkers, New York, thus introducing the game to the US, 1888

Hawaii becomes a US territory, 1900

Due to drought, the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water, 1903

The Great White Fleet, the first US fleet to circumnavigate the globe, returns to Virginia, 1909

Calvin Coolidge gives the first US presidential radio address, 1924

Bert Hinkler successfully completes the first solo flight from England to Australia, 1928

Australian swimmer John Konrads sets 6 world records in two days, 1958

Lee Petty wins the first Daytona 500, 1959

Following United States President Richard Nixon's visit to the People's Republic of China, the two countries agree to establish liaison offices, 1973

In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeats the Soviet Union hockey team 4-3, in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history, 1980

In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announce that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned, 1997

An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people, 2011

At age 34, Mario Matt of Austria becomes the oldest champion in Olympic alpine skiing history with the slalom gold medal at Sochi, 2014

10 million people are without water in Delhi after caste protests in Jat sabotage the Munak water canal, 2016

The discovery of 7 Earth-sized planets orbiting star Trappist-1 is announced in the Journal "Nature", 2017

The Journal “Science” publishes the evidence that Neanderthals were the first artists, creating cave paintings in Spain over 65,000 years ago, 2018

Astronomers announce the latest Webb telescope data is upending existing theories of how early galaxies were formed, 2023

The Odysseus lunar lander, although landing on its side, becomes the first US craft to land on the Moon since 1972 and the first private spacecraft to ever land on the moon, 2024

*Yes, he got there in 10 days, in time for the inaugural ball!