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It's always nice to get to Thankful Day and take a look back over the week. It may not always be the way we would have wanted it, but it always works out just the way it should.
Last Saturday, a friend brought food to Grandma and Grandpa and they loved what she brought. I'm thankful for the friend, and thankful there were crackers and a snack for me to have, too.
Because of the renovations, Grandpa wants to move a refrigerator back into the laundry room (he has already permanently moved the coffee maker in there). I'm thankful i was able to make a space for the fridge, and get rid of some cleaning equipment we no longer use.
I'm also thankful when i took it all to the shelter for my Friday shift last night, they agreed they can probably use it. One place gets clean, another gets a donation, it's a double thankful win.
Sunday morning, poor Tripod SissyCat, who is 19 and now has trouble getting into the litter box, went on the newspaper surrounding the litter box, put there just for this reason. I wasn't paying enough attention when walking past, but thankfully having to clean the mess from my shoe didn't delay me much on getting out of the house.
Because i know Becca's schedule and the usual things for Sunday, i was thankful i knew to look for and found her morning meds, which had not been placed on the counter.
Monday i was thankful to have a heart to heart with Ms. D and Ms. JAI and get them to agree to a slightly different schedule from now on. Because getting home from Ms. JAI's in the worst traffic time of the day is a nightmare, i will start doing her house right after Carl, then come back to my neighborhood before the big traffic jams and take care of Ms. D, who is only 4 houses away.
My "Mall-Mart" stop was a good one this week, i found they now sell a really good brand of probiotic for a very reasonable cost, and i'm thankful.
One thing you never want to hear is, "The baby is sick," but that's what i heard this week. In fact, all three of them, #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law, and the baby had the cruddies and the baby's fever was so high they took her to the ER Monday night.
They decided they didn't want the rest of us exposed, so while i'm not thankful to have missed out on babysitting Tuesday, i am thankful for their consideration.
This week was my annual "taking the twins in for their glamour shots," i.e. mammogram, and my biennial DEXA scan. I'm thankful to live in a country where screening tests can be done and insurance pays for them.
My PSA (Public Service Announcement), get your screenings! It can save your life.
I'm thankful my mammogram came back normal, and although the DEXA shows i have lost some bone mass, i can go back on the bone building meds now and stave off further losses.
Our new schedule with Ms. GA after Ms. SE every-other-Thursday is continuing to work well, and i'm thankful as there's really no other way to shuffle anyone else around any further. I'm thankful, too, we brought the vacuum cleaner we now have to Ms. SE's and it works much better than theirs.
Friday i was thankful to finally get to spend time with our little Annie. She is still not fully recovered (although no longer contagious) and very cranky, crabby and sleepy.
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We've made the difficult decision, because of some symptoms Slow-Moe the car is having after the last repair, neither of our cars are road-worthy for out of town. We will now have to rent a car each weekend, or borrow one.
I'm thankful renting is possible and easy, the people there know us and it's a reasonable price, and if we are a few minutes late over our 24 hours because we are coming from out of town, they don't charge us extra. (We've never been more than 20 minutes over.)
The shelter had 2 extra volunteers Friday evening, and 2 adoptions, capping a week in which two of the cats who had been there the longest both found a home. We're thankful for all the help, and for good homes.
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:
Black Ribbon Day -- Estonia; Latvia; Lithuania
European Day of Remembrance for Victims of Stalinism and Nazism -- European Union
Flag Day -- Ukraine
Great Feast of the Netjeru (all gods and goddesses) -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Health Unit Coordinator Day -- US (National Association of Health Unit Coordinators, Inc.)
International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition
National Spongecake Day
Nemeseia -- Ancient Greek Calendar (local festival to the goddess Nemesis, date approximate)
Ride the Wind Day -- internet generated, a day to get out and ride with the wind in your hair, in whatever transport you choose, or fly a kite
Sento Kuyo -- Nenbutsu-Ji Temple, Adashino, Kyoto, Japan (memorial service for graves that no longer have families to tend them; through tomorrow)
St. Eoghan's Day (Patron of Derry, Ireland)
St. Rose of Lima's Day (Patron of embroiderers, florists, gardeners, needle workers, people ridiculed for piety; The Americas/The New World, especially Central and South America, Latin America, Peru, and the West Indies; Lima, Peru; Philippines, Santa Rosa, CA, US; Villareal Samar, Philippines; against vanity)
Valentino Memorial Service -- Hollywood Cathedral Museum, Hollywood Forever Cemetary, Los Angeles, CA, US (annually since 1927, a memorial service celebrating Rudolph Valentino on the anniversary of his death)
Vertumnalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (in honor of Vertumnus and Pomona)
Vulcanalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival to the god of fire)
Birthdays Today:
Kobe Bryant, 1978
Jay Mohr, 1970
River Phoenix, 1970
Queen Noor of Jordan, 1951
Rick Springfield, 1949
Shelley Long, 1949
Antonia Novello, 1944
Patricia McBride, 1942
Richard Sanders, 1940
Tony Bill, 1940
Barbara Eden, 1934
Sonny Jurgensen, 1934
Mark Russel, 1932
Vera Miles, 1930
Gene Kelly, 1912
Edgar Lee Masters, 1868
Navy Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, 1785
Louis XVI, 1754
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"She Loves You"(Beatles single release date), 1963
"The Bat"(Mystery play), 1930
"Gasoline Alley"(as a daily comic strip), 1919
Today in History:
On the feast of Vulcan, Roman god of fire, Mt. Vesuvius begins to rumble, 79
Visigoths storm Rome, 410
Edward I executes William Wallace, Scottish patriot, for high treason, 1305
French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third voyage to Canada, 1541
Rabbi Joseph Caro completes his commentary of Tur Code, 1542
The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre of Huguenots in Paris begins, 1572
The first one-way streets open in London, 1617
Steamship service begins on the Great Lakes, 1818
Great Britain abolishes slavery in the colonies, 700,000 slaves are freed, 1833
Automobile tire chain is patented, 1904
The World Council of Churches is formed, 1948
Lunar Orbiter I takes the first picture of Earth from the Moon's orbit, 1966
Bryan Allan, in a Gossamer Condor, completes the first man-powered flight of one mile, 1977
Soviet dancer Alexander Godunov defects to the US, 1979
Hans Tiedge, top counter-spy of West Germany, defects to East Germany, 1985
Hungary opens the Iron Curtain and allows thousands of East Germans through to West Germany, 1989
West Germany and East Germany announce that they will unite on Oct. 3, 1990
The remains of Anastasia and Alexei, rumored to have survived the 1917 assassination of the Russian Czar and his family, are found, 2007
Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground, 2010
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is overthrown, 2011
Lance Armstrong, the seven-time Tour de France winner, announces he will not contest the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency charges of doping, a result of which will include being stripped of all of his tour de France victories, 2012
Libya's ruins of Cyrene, a World Heritage Site near Shahhat, is damaged by real estate developers, 2013
Destruction by ISIS of the first century AD temple of Baalshamin in the ancient ruins of Palmyra is confirmed by Syrian officials, 2015
The world's driest place, the Atacama desert in Chile, blooms after an unexpected rainfall, 2017
Russia launches the first floating nuclear power station, the Akademik Lomonosov, from the port of Murmansk, 2019
Video evidence shows a Seychelles giant tortoise hunting and eating a bird, a new behavioral observation, as tortoises were previously thought to be herbivores, 2021
India becomes the fourth nation to launch a successful mission to the Moon when its Chandrayaan-3 craft successfully lands at the Moon's south pole, 2023
Love your list = though I do worry at how busy you are.
ReplyDeleteI'm thankful Annie and her parents are all on the way to good health again, also thankful you are able to rent cars when you need to. I'm thankful for a surprise video I got while out of town, you'll see it in my Sunday Selections tomorrow.
ReplyDeleteYou're always so busy. God bless you.
ReplyDeleteGood news that Annie is not quite as sick. I remember one year ago when I had covid and for me it ended up being long covid for months. Poor tripod Sissy. How I remember the years that Seney needed help in and out of the litter box. As usual your week was very busy. I'm thankful that next week they say that we're going to get extra cool mornings for at least a week.
ReplyDeleteYou are a master of finding the blessing in the mess, I think. Your little story about Tripod SissyCat is an excellent example of that. What a good habit to share with all of us!
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