Saturday, May 24, 2025

Late Nights and Good News, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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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.



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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

13 comments:

  1. Definitely some good news. I hope you can avoid corrective surgery on your eye.

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  2. Praying for your good health.

    God bless.

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  3. I hope that eye exam goes well. That you can finally get this behind you soon. You've had a busy week as usual. I'm thankful that after 6 days of rain that it's dry yesterday and today. I'm only hoping that it warms up enough that I can actually go outside as it is only 39 this morning.

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  4. Payment in avocado rolls sounds so nice. Thanks for your never vaning optimism and thankfulness

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  5. It's wonderful that the building's new possibilities are being considered. And it's great you got to spend so much time with your Annie.

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  6. Such good news about your eyes. I hope it continues to improve, and all goes well. All my best wishes for a calm and lovely week.

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  7. That was really a wonderful list of thankful things!

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  8. Charlee: "We're glad to see this list of positive things, especially about the cat shelter and your eye!"

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  9. Wonderful thankful list. Glad you eye is better and you got to spend time with adorable Annie. XO

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  10. A very busy week! I'm concerned about the school closing, will the children go by bus to another facility? Is there one close enough?

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  11. Hurray for good medical news!
    The baby is sure a cutie!

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  12. excellent eye news!*
    *there's a joke in there somewhere, but trying to catch up with posts and, frankly we know our style enough to patch one in.... (good bless Burns and Allen!)
    also goo that you got the extra sleep! never hurts

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