The Plenty, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It's been a week of nothing huge, but plenty anyway, all of it fuel for gratitude and thankfulness.

#2 Son has had another birthday, and i'm thankful for him.

Last week, the unthinkable happened, i lost a set of keys to a client's house.  They are not labeled with an address, so i wasn't worried about anyone finding them and using them for burglary, it's just so frustrating when i am so very careful to keep them all in a key bag in a safe place always.

I was thankful the client understood and was able to get me a set to copy, then even more thankful when the first set turned up, having fallen out of my pocket into the clothes hamper!  Of course, landing on clothing, they didn't clink or make noise, i'm thankful they alerted me to their presence when i took the dirty clothes out of the hamper and they landed on the floor.

Grandma seems to have relented and let us go back to our previous cleaning schedule, the one which was working so well, and i'm thankful not to have to fight with Grandpa to let us clean his room (he hates having anyone messing in his room so we have to do it while he's at church).

Little Annie continues to charm and amuse us.  She's been very interested in anything people around her are eating, and i was thankful i had some very ripe avocados, since that's her current favorite.

She loves avocado and came by it honest.

We're thankful the 6-month check-up went well, the little nugget is 17 1/2 pounds!

I'm also thankful to get to see her a couple of times a week at least.

Ms. V was having A/C duct work done in her bedroom and i'm thankful i was able to take a few minutes out of tending Carl's room to give hers a good dusting, as she'd moved some things behind which there were dust bunnies lurking.  She wanted the stuff out of the way for the workers and she was not keen on having them see the build-up (not that they would care, but she did).

Monday evening was another very enjoyable ladies' circle meeting, with good food and good fellowship for which to be thankful.

The cat shelter is in its down time right now, between one kitten season and another.  We're thankful for the break, there's plenty of time to catch up on work which doesn't get done when every cage is full.

Ms. G's back yard had dried from the recent rain and i didn't get my shoes soaked when i cleaned some cat items outdoors with the hose and i was very thankful, as i'd forgotten my rubber boots.

Work has been going, well, like clockwork, and i'm thankful.  No drama is a good thing.

Also, one curious thing happened.  Our pastor writes a Lent devotional book, as in, 175-225 pages bound books, and they are distributed to the congregation with plenty of extras to share.  The first one i got, as i was flipping through, had a flaw, it had the first 3 weeks of devotions, then in the second half of the book, it repeated the first 3 weeks!

I was thankful to find out now, instead of opening the book the morning i needed the next reading and finding out it wasn't there.  I got another book, it was fine, the full book.  I've checked with the people i've given books to, theirs are all good.

I'm thankful the funny, amusing and silly things like this happen to me, it makes me smile.

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:

1848 Revolution Day -- Hungary

Ag Day, Celebrating Our Bountiful Food Supply -- according to a foodie website

Brutus Day -- for obvious reasons; watch for backstabbers today, because they are as numerous now as they were in ancient Rome

Constitution Day -- Belarus

Everything You Think is Wrong Day -- begun by someone who wants you to keep an open mind, apparently

Fallas de Valencia -- Valencia, Spain (a five day carnival/fiesta of partying that ends with turning off all the city lights and setting fire to hundreds of massive papier-mache statues stuffed with fireworks to celebrate St. Joseph's Day; sometimes called Fallas de San Jose)

Honen Matsuri -- Tagata-jinja Shrine, Inuyama, Japan (festival for a good harvest and fertility)

Ides of March -- Ancient Roman Calendar; other observances

     Day Sacred to Anna Parenna and River Nymphs -- goddess of the returning year

     Day You Don't Want to Go Out if Your Name is Julius Caesar

     Festival of Attis and Cybele

     Guild Festival -- for guilds practicing the arts of Minerva, with weapons purified at her temple on this day

International Day Against Police Brutality

Joseph Jenkins Roberts' Birthday -- Liberia

Kashiram Jayanti -- UP, India (birth anniversary of politician Kashi Ram)

National Pears Helene with Chocolate Sauce and Brandy Day

National Quilting Day -- US, sponsored by the Quilt Alliance     

Offerings to Ra, Osiris, Horus, Ptah, Sokar, and Atum -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Save the Florida Panther Day -- FL, US

St. Clement Mary Hofbauer's Day (Patron of Vienna, Austria)

St. Louise de Marillac's Day (Patron of disappointing children, loss of parents, people rejected by religious orders, sick people, social workers, widows; Vincentian Service Corps)

Tagata Honen-Sai/Honen Matsuri -- Inuyama, Japan (fertility festival)

True Confessions Day -- sponsored by Wellcat Holidays, because confession is good for the soul; if you are afraid to confess to the world, there's always your mirror

Turkey Buzzards Day -- Hinckley, OH, US (Two theories about why the turkey buzzards return on this date each year have to do with either witchcraft of a hunting story; festival in honor of them will be held this coming Sunday)

World Consumer Rights Day -- International   

Youth Day -- Palau

Anniversaries Today:

Richard Burton marries Elizabeth Taylor, 1964

The University of Toronto is chartered, 1827

Maine becomes the 23rd US state, 1820

Birthdays Today:

Kellan Lutz, 1985

Sean Biggerstaff, 1983

Eva Longoria, 1975

Kim Raver, 1969

Mark McGrath, 1968

Bret Michaels, 1963

Fabio, 1961

Mary Carillo, 1957

Park Overall, 1957

Dee Snyder, 1955

Craig Wilson, 1954

Sly Stone, 1944

Mike Love, 1941

Phil Lesh, 1940

Judd Hirsch, 1935

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1933

Alan Bean, 1932

Norm Van Brocklin, 1926

Harry James, 1916

Joe E. Ross, 1914

Macdonald Carey, 1913

Samuel "Lightnin" Hopkins, 1912

Andrew Jackson, 1767

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"The Wonder Years"(TV), 1988

"Eight is Enough"(TV), 1977

"Three's Company"(TV), 1977

"The Godfather"(Film), 1972

"Purlie"(Musical), 1970

"Lady Madonna"(Music single), 1968

"My Fair Lady"(Musical), 1956

"Rapsodie Espagnole"(Ravel's Orchestral rhapsody), 1908

"Caesar and Cleopatra,"(Play), 1899

"She Stoops to Conquer"(Comedy), 1773

Today in History:

Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March, BC44

Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty, 221

A Jew hating Monk in Seville, Spain stirs up people in that city to attack Jews, 1391

Christopher Columbus arrives back in Spain after his first trip to the New World, 1493

The first meeting of the Council of Trent, 1545

South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government, 1776

In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy; the plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place, 1783

A revolution breaks out in Hungary, and the Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party, 1848

Jesse W. Reno patents an "inclined elevator" (escalator), 1892*

Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated, 1906

Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar, 1917

Symbolics.com registers the very first Internet domain name, 1985

Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union, 1990

French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the "headscarf ban", 2004

Lazarus Project scientists reveal that they successfully recovered frozen tissue from the 1970's and rejuvenated the cells of Rheobatrachus silus, a species of frog that has been extinct since 1983, 2013

French fashion house Givenchy appoints it first female designer, Englishwoman Clare Waight Keller, 2017

Toys ‘R Us announces it will close all of its stores, 2018

More European countries impose restrictions on travel and borders to try to combat Covid19, while the US Federal Reserve slashes interest rates to near zero in an attempt to support the economy, 2020

Deb Haaland becomes the first Native American to lead a cabinet agency after being confirmed by the Senate as the new US Secretary of the Interior, 2021

An atmospheric river creates a storm across California, bringing widespread flooding and power outages, 2023

*The first actual working model, at Coney Island, was built four years later.