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Drama isn’t my style, but it seems to find me a lot and on Thankful Day it’s nice to look back and see how it all worked out well anyway.
We had a funny morning with Mr. Cal on Sunday, he wouldn’t agree to come for his walk until he heard the key in the door and realized we were going to walk without him. He wasn’t going to allow that and i’m thankful.
Ms. JAI fell again and waited for me to come Monday afternoon so she could shower. She’s figuring out she doesn’t want to take any chances, and i’m thankful because she used to just do what she wanted without worrying herself but scaring all of us.
#1 Son was supposed to call me on Tuesday so i could order the pizzas for rEcess, but i was way out in the country babysitting and my phone would not work. I’m thankful daughter-in-law told #2 Son, who told #1 Son, who called me on daughter-in-law’s phone.
I’m thankful i was able to do all the things Wednesday morning: shelter volunteering, catio volunteering, drop stuff at the church, quick shopping, rent a car, pack and drive to NOLA by 2:30pm.
My little Annie cut a bit of a rumpus that night when i tried to get her to go to bed, i’m thankful she did finally go to sleep and stay asleep until her parents got back from their concert.
Thursday morning i was thankful for 5 hours sleep which enabled me to drive back home, turn in the rental, pack cleaning supplies and get to the store. Then we cleaned Ms. SE’s place in only 4 1/2 hours, a feat for which i am very thankful after our late start.
Friday morning while i was at work i got a call from #1 Son. “Mom, I have bad news, our pizza oven broke and I can’t make your pizzas for rEcess tonight!”
I’m thankful it was early enough in the day i could order from a different place. The pizzas are better at the restaurant where my son works, but any port in a storm, right?
Then i got a call from my Sweetie. “Which is the breaker for our bedroom?”
Uh oh. After a deep sigh, i asked what had happened.
“Well, I woke up and was cold and turned on the heater.”
Please note, it is close enough to summer here the temps are in the upper 80’s, we have no central heat/air but use room unit A/Cs and space heaters, and he had the space heater plugged into the same outlet as the A/C and tried to run both at the same time.
I’m thankful he didn’t blow the electric for the whole house with that, but i’m also thankful after i coached him for what to look for, he found the tripped circuit himself and got it taken care of.
Then there was rEcess. I have no pictures because my phone is not cooperating right now, but we had 34 people in the building, blew through the majority of 10 pizzas as well as 2 dozen huge sugar cookies and 2 dozen cupcakes, had gym and art time, an epic game of hallway soccer football, toys all over, movie time and plenty of fun to go around, and i’m thankful the last rEcess of this school year was a roaring success.
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:
Astronomy Day 2025 / Spring Astronomy Day -- Saturday at or before the first quarter moon between mid-April and mid-May
sponsored by The Astronomical League; find out what your local astronomy society is doing today, and go enjoy
Bona Dia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (a women's festival)
Constitution Day -- Poland
Constitution Memorial Day -- Japan (Part of the Showa Golden Week Festivities)
Dia de la Cruz -- Mexico (Day of the Holy Cross, a festive day for construction workers, with parties and a flower decorated cross placed on every piece of new construction through the country)
Florae -- Ancient Roman Calendar (ceremony at the temple of Flora)
Garden Meditation Day -- let go your concerns and center your attention on your garden
Herb Day -- an international celebration of herbs and all the flavor they add to our lives; try a new herb to season a dish today
Lumpy Rug Day -- the tongue-in-cheek day to tease bigots about shoving unwanted facts under the rug, sponsored by Robert L. Birch of Puns corps
National Homebrew Day -- US (Home Brewers Association)
National Raspberry Popover Day / National Raspberry Tart Day
National Scrapbooking Day -- begun by Creative Memories, now celebrated by scrapbookers everywhere, a good article about it here
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day -- celebrate your uniqueness, take a risk, and step outside of your routine today
Paranormal Day -- i have enough trouble with normal, thank you
St. James the Lesser's Day (Patron of apothecaries, druggists, the dying, fullers, hatters and hatmakers, miliners, pharmacists; Frascati, Italy; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; Uruguay; Venegono Inferiore, Italy)
St. Phillip the Apostle's Day (Patron of hatmakers and hatters, milliners, pastry chefs; Luxembourg; Monterotondo, Italy; Nemi, Italy; San Felipe Indian Pueblo; Uruguay; Venegono, Inferiore, Italy)
Wordsmith Day
World Naked Gardening Day wndg.org -- scare the neighbors! get rid of those pesky squirrels! experience nature (and sunburn, and mosquito bites) with your whole body!
World Press Freedom Day -- International/UN
Birthdays Today:
Joseph Addai, 1983
Christine Hendricks, 1975
Dule Hill, 1974
Christopher Cross, 1951
Mary Hopkin, 1950
Doug Henning, 1947
Greg Gumbel, 1946
Frankie Valli, 1937
Engelbert Humperdinck, 1936
James Brown, 1933
Sugar Ray Robinson, 1921
Pete Seeger, 1919
Bing Crosby, 1903
Golda Meir, 1898
Niccolo Machiavelli, 1469
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Bent"(Play), 1979
"All Things Considered"(National Public Radio Network first broadcast), 1971
"The Most Happy Fella"(Musical), 1956
"CBS Evening News"(TV), 1948
Today in History:
Christopher Columbus first sights Jamaica (Santiago), 1494
Francis Bacon is charged with bribery, 1621
A royal charter is granted for Connecticut, 1662
The last total solar eclipse to be observed from London for the next 900 years occurs as predicted by Edmund Halley; called Halley's eclipse as he predicted it to within 4 minutes accuracy and described its path to within 30km, 1715
The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1791
Washington, D.C., is incorporated as a city, 1802
The Canterbury and Whitstable Railway is opened. It is the first steam hauled passenger railway to issue season tickets and include a tunnel, 1830
The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island, 1867
The Great Fire of 1901 in Jacksonville, Florida, destroys 1,700 buildings, 1901
Raja Harishchandra the first full-length Indian feature film is released, marking the beginning of the Indian film industry, 1913
The poem In Flanders Fields is written by Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae, 1915
Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes the first woman to head the United States Mint, 1933
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind is awarded the Pulitzer Prize, 1937
The Kentucky Derby is televised for the first time, 1951
Lieutenant Colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict of the United States land a plane at the North Pole, 1952
The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1960
The first "spam" email is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States, 1978
The strongest tornado ever recorded, one of 66 tornadoes recorded that day, with winds of up to 313mph, strikes Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 1999
The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet, 2000
New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses, 2003
New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art announces it will return two statues from northern Cambodia's archeological site Koh Ker, 2013
The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences members vote to expel Bill Cosby and Roman Polanski, 2018
Kilauea volcano on Big Island, Hawaii begins erupting forcing the evacuation of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and residential areas, 2018
The US Environmental Protection Agency takes a significant step against climate change by announcing new limits on hydrofluorocarbons, 2021
Another busy week. I am so glad that rEcess (your happy place) went so well.
ReplyDeleteThank you for all your good works with animals.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
34 people for rEcess. A great turnout and it's a good thing that the pizzas turned out, lol. I'm thankful that we're getting some rain here at home even though it's cold and wet, we've been under some kind of drought bubble in our County for the past year.
ReplyDeleteMr. Cal is like us - we do that to Mom sometimes too. Just have to keep her guessing:)
ReplyDeleteGlad the pizzas all arrived on time for rEcess despite the many challenges. We have a similar problem here with our electricity. Mom can't run the big toaster oven at the same time as her electric tea kettle - she always forgets and blows the circuit.
Woos - Misty and Timber
WOW, congratulations, you got through it all and ended up with nice thankfuls.
ReplyDeleteHoly smokes. What I would've panicked over - the pizza and circuit breaker - you turned into thankful moments. I'm happy your rEcess night was a "roaring success" and that is something to be thankful for!
ReplyDeleteYour Thankfuls are rich and full of gratitude. You had an extraordinarily busy week. I enjoyed reading them; and the grandchildren do give us a turn now and then when we babysit. Been there. :-) Thoroughly enjoyed the entire blog. Thank you for it.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful you were able to get pizzas somewhere else and that your whole house didn't get "blacked out"
ReplyDeleteI remember living in a rental where the laundry and kitchen were on the same breaker and we couldn't use the electric kettle if the dryer was running. We solved that problem by buying an old fashioned stove top kettle and using that.
Wonderful list of thankfuls and adorable shot of Annie. XO
ReplyDeleteInteresting thankfuls, you certainly got through a lot of food at rEcess! Annie's growing up fast!
ReplyDeleteUh, oh, breaking the cicuits, ot in our house burning out the fuses, from using too many things at the same time happens here as well. We have taught the Owlets how to flip the switch, put in new fuse and flip the switch back on. This is useful knowledge ;) Lucky it was only the one circuit.
ReplyDeleteYou handle drama very well! Glad everything worked out.
ReplyDeleteSome people don't want to walk until they face FOMO.
ReplyDeleteWhat an eventful week you had, and all handled with your usual calm. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteso I know a person who, in a different life/parallel dimension would be a plate juggler* (on the Ed Sullivan show**)
ReplyDeleteloved the line: "...cut a bit of a rumpus"
* an act in which plates are balanced on thin poles and set spinning
**Sunday nights (in the Before Time)
Java Bean: "Ayyy, what a day! But you did eventually get pizza, right? Pizza always helps!"
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