Getting Closer, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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We're getting closer to having #2 Son, His Bride (D-i-L) and little Annie right in our back yard.

The week has gone very well.  Last Saturday was supposed to be the St. Patrick's Day parade for this area, but the prediction was for one of those monsoon style storms to come through right in the middle of the day.

They postponed until Sunday, which meant Becca and i were thankful to see all the floats being transported to the start location while we were on our way to church Sunday morning.

I'm also thankful the storm wasn't too bad, i was driving through the low-visibility everyone driving with flashers on so we could see each other part for only a short few miles.

My Sweetie bought shingles and nails for the roof and we're thankful #2 Son was able to replace the ones we'd lost.  We're thankful he also sprayed them with sealant so as to make sure there's no leaks where the new and old ones meet.

I was thankful to finally get to see Ms. D and Ms. JAI on Monday.  The last two times Ms. D  had appointments and had me let myself in to work to her list, and Ms. JAI had to cancel for an appointment.

At Ms. D's this week, i'm thankful i figured out how to take the screen door glass out and clean it properly, it's been bugging me.

At Ms. JAI's, i signed her up for a free account so she can watch all the episodes of The Chosen from the beginning, and she's thankful as she's wanted to be able to do this for a while now.

D-i-L got into poison ivy while they were working on the back yard fence, so i was thankful on Tuesday, after watching little Annie for her while she worked, to be able to drive them both to the doc-in-a-box so she could get a steroid shot.

Our little Annie had a bit of an adventure.  She has decided she likes to drink water from her sippy cup, and she got a little too ambitious, drank too much and was spitting it up until she couldn't hold anything down.  We're thankful a quick trip to the doc and a bit of nausea meds sorted it all out.

Ms. G is thankful she got me on her Costco account, she can now send me to go get stuff when her back isn't up to it.

Our Thursday at Ms. SE's house was one of the easiest we've ever had, her mother had been in town and done most of the laundry.  I'm thankful i only had to fold one big basket of clothes.

We're thankful #2 Son was successful at getting the RV into the back yard, the electricity works, and the water tank overflow valve functions.  He's also thankful he now knows to get a flow regulator for the hose so the overflow valve won't have to do its thing again.

Ms. M, my Friday evening caretaking partner at the cat shelter, wasn't able to come this week, i'm thankful for two extra volunteers who made all the work go lickety-split.

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:

As Young As You Feel Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, which encourages you to stop acting your chronological age and go act peppy!

Banned in Boston Day -- see history for 1630 for explanation of why today

Coq Au Vin Day

Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Emancipation Day) -- Puerto Rico

Earth Hour -- 8:30pm-9:30pm, your local time; turn off your lights to take a stand against climate change     

International Goof-off Day -- sponsored by Monica A. Dufour and A.C. Vierow, who think everyone needs a special day each year to goof off.

International Day of the Seal -- drawing attention to a disappearing species

Laser Day -- the first patent on a laser was granted this day in 1960 to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes

National Bavarian Crepes Day

National Sing-Out Day -- begun by an anonymous person who must love singing; and yes, i promise, i won't sing where anyone has to listen to me

St. Darerca's Day (reportedly the sister of St. Patrick; Patron of Valentia Island, Ireland)

World Day for Water -- UN

Anniversary Today:

The Tuskegee Airmen are activated, 1941

Birthdays Today:

James T. Kirk, 2233

Cristen Powell, 1979

Reese Witherspoon, 1976

Elvis Stojko, 1972

Matthew Modine, 1959

Stephanie Mills, 1957

Lena Olin, 1955

Bob Costas, 1952

Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1948

James Patterson, 1947

George Benson, 1943

Bruno Ganz, 1941

Marvin Yagoda, 1938

M. Emmet Walsh, 1935

J.P. McCarthy, 1933

William Shatner, 1931

Pat Robertson, 1930

Stephen Sondheim, 1930

Allen Neuharth, 1924

Marcel Marceau, 1923

Karl Malden, 1912

Louis L'Amour, 1908

Chico Marx, 1887

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Conversations with My Father"(Play), 1992

"Brighton Beach Memoirs"(Play), 1983

"All You Need is Cash"(TV movie), 1978

"I Can Get It For You Wholesale"(Musical), 1962

"Mr. Wonderful"(Musical), 1956

"This Year of Grace"(Musical), 1928

"El maleficio de la mariposa/The Butterfly's Evil Spell"(Play), 1920

Today in History:

Hugo de Groot escapes imprisonment in Loevenstein Castle in a book case, 1621

The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags, 1621

Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, 1622

Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables, 1630

Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer), 1733

The Parliament of Great Britain passes the Stamp Act, which introduced a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies, 1765

The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand, 1784

The three protecting powers (Britain, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece, 1829

Cornstarch is patented by Orlando Jones, 1841

Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico, 1873

The Edmunds Act adopted by US to suppress polygamy in the territories (especially aimed at the Mormons), 1882

August and Louis Lumiere privately screen the first "motion picture" ever made, of workers leaving their factory three days earlier, 1895

World's first airline, St Petersburg Tampa Airboat Line, begins, 1914

The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt, 1945

Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser, 1960

Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1978

The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips, 1993

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space, 1995

The Comet Hale-Bopp has its closest approach to earth, 1997

Tara Lipinski, age 14 years and 10 months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion, 1997

ETA, the armed Basque separatist group, declares a permanent ceasefire, 2006

Mount Redoubt, a volcano in Alaska began erupting after a prolonged period of unrest, 2009

The "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" between Hawaii and California has 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and increasing rapidly according to new research, 2018

The journal Science publishes the first major announcement of the discovery of the Qingjiang biota, a 518-million-year-old fossil site near the Danshui River in China that is one of the most well preserved and diverse sites of the early Cambrian explosion ever found, 2019

The world's largest painting, "The Journey of Humanity" by British artist Sacha Jafri, sells in Dubai for $62m to raise funds for children's charities, 2021

New research conducted at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam finds microplastics in human blood for the first time, 2022

The American Library Association says 2022 had the highest number of calls to censor library books in the US in over 20 years, 2023

A new DNA analysis of composer Ludwig von Beethoven's hair reveals he probably died of hepatitis B and cirrhosis of the liver, 2023

British runner Jasmin Paris is the first woman and 20th person to complete one of the world's hardest ultramarathons - the Barkley Marathons, 2024