Just in Time and Visiting Time, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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It seems some weeks you get to Thankful Day just in time as it's been a full week.

Not as crazy as others, but full, nonetheless.

Last Saturday i arrived at Grandma and Grandpa's house just in time to be told not to walk in some places as there was grout being put between the tiles there and you can't walk on them until it is set.  I'm thankful the work is coming along and seems to be going well.

When Grandpa and i went to the store, one item on my list was a special type of guacamole seasoning and as i looked on the shelf, it was the only empty slot on an otherwise full shelf.

I'm thankful i followed The Good Lord's nudge and reached back behind the not very neatly shelved garlic salt for a bottle i could not even see and pulled out the very last bottle of guac seasoning in the store.

Becca, Mr. Cal and i were thankful for one last extra long walk before the last of our summer schedule Sunday services.  Next week, we are back to needing to leave a bit earlier for an earlier service time.

I was thankful for a lovely Sunday evening with our little Annie.

Ms. JAI cancelled again for Monday so i was thankful to be home when #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law rushed over with Annie to consult with me.  She had started choking on, of all things, a bite of mashed potatoes with gravy, and when she couldn't cough it up easily, was crying and almost convulsing and scared her parent half out of their minds.

I was thankful to be able to tell them she was just fine, which by this point the crying had mostly stopped and she even smiled and reached out for me to hold her.  Soft foods can get stuck and take a bit more time to finish going down than the firmer items, and she'd simply gotten scared and then they'd been scared and it just spiraled a bit.  No one was any worse for it all.

Then i got to babysit on Tuesday and make a few phone calls as i did so.  I was thankful to find out my doctor had already called in refills for the meds.  The insurance company had sent me a card for the car we cancelled, and i was thankful one phone call confirmed it had simply crossed in the mail, the policy was canceled and they had not canceled one of our other cars by mistake.

I was thankful also to confirm yes, in spite of what the insurance company said, our mortgage company did pay the flood insurance premium on time.  Thankfully, Ms. M at the insurance company helped me get the flood insurance agent switched to her office instead of the other office, the other one makes mistakes left, right and center and Ms. M's office is much better.

Then there's the fact our little Annie is doing so well.

We're thankful even while cautious.

I'm thankful i took the time to go visit Ms. JAI, since i didn't see her on Monday.  We had a lovely catch up chat.

Ms. G had a very important doctor appointment Wednesday, so she and i had the shortest workday we've ever had.  I'm thankful it meant i could go home and rest, it doesn't happen often.

I'm also thankful i got the pharmacy to agree to hold the prescriptions until Friday when i could go get them.

Thursday my Sweetie and i pulled a double cleaning, i was thankful i climbed two ladders at two client homes and it all went well.  We were also thankful we got both jobs done in 7 hours total, excellent time considering the amount of work.

Thursday was also the day #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law and our little Annie went off on a week's adventure, a visit with the part of her family who've never seen our sweet little girl in person yet, in Alaska.  We're thankful they arrived safely.

I was thankful for an errand day Friday after prayer group, including getting those prescriptions right on time (i'd taken the last pill the day before).

The shelter was busy Friday evening, i was thankful for several adoptions including one lady whom i was able to talk into taking the two kitten sisters when she'd come expecting to only get one cat.  Ruth and Naomi will go home on Tuesday after their surgery.

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Today is:

Betty Boop Day -- she debuted in "Dizzy Dishes" on this day in 1930

Book Lover's Day -- internet generated, but if you love books, go sit under a shady tree with a cool drink and indulge!

Celebrate Your Lakes Day -- originally a senate resolution in the US state of New Hampshire to celebrate local lakes and ponds, now more widely observed; go enjoy some recreation at a pond, lake, or even river or stream near you!

Clean Out the Kitchen Cupboards Day -- because someone, somewhere, thought it would be a good day to remind us to get rid of the junk in there we haven't seen since last year

Dag der Inheemsen -- Suriname (Indigenous People's Day)

Elvis Week -- Memphis, TN, US (celebrating The King of Rock 'n Roll with lots of special events; through the 17th)

Festival for Sol -- Ancient Roman Calendar

Full Sturgeon Moon a/k/a Full Red Moon, Green Corn Moon, or Grain Moon

     Native Wild Rice Harvest -- Northern Cree, Ojibwa, and Algonkian Native Americans (celebrated during the August full moon; if there are two full moons, it is during the second)

     Nikini Full Moon Poya Day -- Sri Lanka (begins at sundown)

     Raksha Bandhan -- CG, GJ, MP, RJ, UK, & UP, India; Nepal (the Hindu festival that celebrates the the love and duty between brothers and sisters)

     Waso Full Moon -- Myanmar 

Independence Day / National Day -- Singapore(1965)

International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples -- UN

Jesse Owens Day -- the day he became the first American to win 4 gold medals

Nagasaki Day / Moment of Silence -- Japan

National Garage Sale Day -- US (the goal, according to C. Daniel Rhodes, is to turn the nation into a giant shopping mall on the second Saturday of August each year)

National Hand Holding Day -- sponsored by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith of Chicago

National Rice Pudding Day

National Women's Day -- South Africa

Remembrance for Radbod, King of the Frisians -- Asatru/Norse Pagan

Sister Teresa Benedicta of the Cross' Day (born Edith Stein, killed at Auschwitz; Co-Patron of Europe; Patron of converts, martyrs, those who have lost their parents, World Youth Day)

Smokey the Bear Day -- Smokey first appeared on a U.S. Forest Service poster on this day in 1944

Tu B'Av -- Jewish (a celebration of love, originally a joyous holiday at the beginning of the grape harvest, and now rather akin to Valentine's Day; through nightfall)

Urs Festival of Hazrat Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai -- Sindh, Pakistan (the grand three day festival of Sindh, celebrating this famous Sundhi Sufi scholar, mystic, and saint)

Veep Day -- US (commemoration of the day in 1974 Richard Nixon's resignation let Gerald Ford succeed to the presidency)

Wicket World of Croquet -- Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site, Indianapolis, IN, US (Don your game whites and hit the court for a wicketly competitive day of historic elegance and modern indulgence)

Yosakoi Matsuri -- Kochi City, Japan (over 100 groups come up with their own Bon dance and costume and have dance competions in the streets, through the 12th)

Anniversaries Today:

Coronation of Albert II of Belgium, 1993

Birthdays Today:

Audrey Tautou,1976

Eric Bana, 1968

Gillian Anderson, 1968

Delon Sanders, 1967

Hoda Kotb, 1964

Whitney Houston, 1963

Michael Kors, 1959

Amanda Bearse, 1958

Melanie Griffith, 1957

Sam Elliot, 1944

David Steinberg, 1942

Robert Joseph (Bob) Cousy, 1928

P.L. Travers, 1899

Joseph Locke, 1805

Amedeo Avogadro, 1776

John Dryden, 1631

Izaak Walton, 1593

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Béatrice et Bénédict (Beatrice and Benedick)"(Berlioz Opera Comique), 1862

Walden(Thoreau, publication date), 1854

Today in History:

Battle of Pharsalus, in which Julius Caesar defeated Pompey, who fled to Egypt, BC 40

Bulgaria is founded as a Khanate on the south bank of the Danube after defeating the Byzantine armies of Emperor Constantine IV south of the Danube delta, 681

Start of construction of the Tower of Pisa, 1173*

Sistine Chapel opens, 1483

First horses arrive in Hawai'i, 1803

The Webster-Ashburton Treaty is signed, establishing the United States-Canada border east of the Rocky Mountains, 1842

Thoreau's Walden is published, 1854

Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph, 1892

Betty Boop makes her debut in the cartoon, Dizzy Dishes, 1930

Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement, 1942

The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time, 1944

Singapore is expelled from Malaysia and becomes the first and only country to date to gain independence unwillingly, 1965

Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office, 1974

Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, 1988

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan loses a 38-year hold on national leadership, 1993

Tensions escalate between North and South Korea, when South Korea claims North Korea fired over 100 rounds of artillery into the Sea of Japan, 2010

David Rudisha of Kenya becomes the first athlete at the 2012 Summer Olympics to set a new world track record and secures the 800m gold medal, while Usain Bolt becomes the first person to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics, 2012

Nepal's parliament bans menstruation huts (comes into effect August 2018), 2017

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change predicts that humanity can only avoid catastrophic climate damage if all governments of the world act together quickly, 2021

Wildfires on the Hawaiian Island of Maui kill at least 97 and destroy the historic town of Lahaina, 2023

*completed two hundred years later