A Busy Week With a rEcess On Top, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Some weeks i get to Thankful Day and say, whew, that’s a lot.  This is one of them.

Grandpa totally forgot last Saturday it was our day to go to the store.  Since he didn’t need anything, and Grandma didn’t either, and i could wait and go later back home, i was thankful to skip it and get the work done faster.

When i turned in the rental this week, we made a reservation for the wedding weekend, and i was thankful to get a confirmation number.

Saturday is also when #2 Son, Daughter-in-Law and little Annie headed up for a whirlwind trip to see a piece of land they might want to buy with a view to moving out of state.  I was thankful that night for the text they arrived safely.

Sunday i was thankful Becca and Mr. Cal and i had a good morning, and in the afternoon i was thankful to hear from #2 Son.  They love the place, and put in an offer which was verbally accepted before they left!

This was also the day i learned about the death of our blogging friend Sue, hostess of Words for Wednesday and Sunday Selections.  I'm very sad she's gone and very thankful for the kindness and beauty she brought to my life.

On Monday at Ms. D's house, i was thankful to help her with "those little projects which rattle around in the back of my brain and give me fits until they are done," as she told me.

While watching our little Annie on Tuesday, her mom and i talked.  I am always thankful to be with Annie, and our talk was about the land they want to purchase.  I'm thankful they seem to be making a wise choice, and they are getting good land for a decent price.

Ms. G had a doctor's appointment Wednesday so i finished early and was able to stop and pay a bill at a doctor's office which has been hanging over me for a couple of weeks with no time to stop before.  It's always a thankful to get these things out of the way and done.

Late Wednesday evening i found out Grandma and Grandpa's dog, Lulu, had finally succumbed to her cancer.  Again, i am sad she's gone, thankful she was in our lives for so long, and thankful she didn't suffer as she was chasing birds and jumping for treats all the way until about two days before she died.

You know school is back in session when Ms. SE's house falls apart, and it fell apart hard this week.  I'm thankful the work isn't usually this bad, especially as we have Ms. GA after.

I had four errands which needed running on Friday and i'm thankful my Sweetie did them so i could care for Annie again.

Then there was rEcess, the biggest one we've had in a long time.  I was thankful we had four lasagnas, a huge salad and plenty of bread and dessert as we had 22 volunteers and six special children to care for, plus their siblings, for a total of close to 50 of us!  It was glorious mayhem, and we love every minute.

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Today is the feast day of St. Francis of Assisi.  He's the Patron of animal welfare societies, animals, birds, ecologists, ecology, environment and environmentalists, families, lace makers/lace workers, merchants, needle workers, peace, tapestry workers, zoos; Italy, especially Assisi, as well as several other cities around the world; against dying alone, fire.

     Many Roman Catholic churches celebrate his day with a Blessing of the Animals ceremony.

     This also means it is World Animal Day.  

Thanks to Barb Kowalik and The Cat Blogosphere for the event badge.        

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Today is:

Festival of Hathor -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)

Golf Lovers' Day -- internet generated, enjoy if you love golf

Ieiunium Cereris -- Ancient Roman Calendar (fast for the goddess Ceres)

Improve Your Office Day -- and water that plant while you are at it!

Independence Day -- Lesotho(1966)

Inter-American Water Day -- begun in 1992 by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the Inter-American Association of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering (AIDIS) and the Caribbean Water and Wastewater Association (CWWA)

International Frugal Fun Day -- created by Shel Horowitz, author of The Penny-Pinching Hedonist

International Toot Your Flute Day -- an internet generated day for shameless self-promotion

Kanelbullens Dag -- Sweden (cinnamon roll day)

National Ship in a Bottle Day -- another one i can't find a source for, but it's listed everywhere

National Taco Day

National Vodka Day

Nihonmatsu Lantern Festival -- Nihonmatsu, Japan (one of Japan's 3 largest lantern festivals; through the 6th)

Peace and National Reconciliation Day -- Mozambique

Qatar Prix L'arc de Triomphe -- Longchamp Race-course, Paris, France (one of the world's greatest horse races, first run in 1920; celebrations and events through tomorrow)

St. Petronius' Day (Patron of Bologna, Italy)

10-4 Day (C.B.'ers) -- fourth day of the tenth month, ten-four, good buddy, etc.

Tewa Deer Dance -- Tewa Native Americans (celebrating the cosmic duality of the feminine and masculine, and honoring male and female ancestors; through the 7th)

World Card Making Day -- Paper Crafts Magazine started it all in 2006 and suggests you have fun and make a card or two or three on the first Saturday of October each year

World Space Week begins -- International

Anniversaries Today

The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, 1957

The Soviet Union launches Luna 3, 1959 (first satellite to photograph the moon's distant side)

Birthdays Today:

Rachael Leigh Cook, 1979

Alicia Silverstone, 1976

Abraham Benrubi, 1969

Christoph Waltz, 1956

Anita DeFrantz, 1952

Armand Assante, 1949

Susan Sarandon, 1946

Clifton Davis, 1945

Anne Rice, 1941

Jackie Collins, 1937

Alvin Toffler, 1928

Charlton Heston, 1924

Buster Keaton, 1895

Damon Runyon, 1884

Edward Stratemeyer, 1862

Frederic S. Remington, 1861

Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822

Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine, 1807

Debuting/Premiering Today

"The Alvin Show"(TV), 1961

Cello Concerto No. 1 in E-flat major(Shostakovich Op. 107), 1959

"Leave It To Beaver"(TV), 1957

Snoopy, in the Peanuts Comic strip, 1950

Dick Tracy(Comic strip), 1931

Today in History:

One of the largest naval battles in history, the Battle of Lake Poyang, ends when the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat Chen Youliang, 1363

The first full English translation of the Bible, sometimes called the Matthew Bible, which contained the work of translators William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale, is printed in Switzerland, 1537

Pope Gregory XIII's calendar adjustment that bears his name takes effect, with tomorrow being not Oct. 5, but Oct. 15, 1582

Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts drafts its first code of law, 1636

Peter Stuyvesant establishes America's first volunteer fire department, 1648

Christian Huygens patents the pocket watch, 1675

The state of Belgium is created after separation from the Netherlands, 1830

The New Orleans Tribune becomes the first black daily newspaper, 1864

The Orient Express, linking Turkey to Europe by rail, makes its first run, 1883

Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post, 1941

The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature, 1991

The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique, 1992

NATO confirms invocation of Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, 2001

SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space, 2004

What is believed to be the oldest high-altitude human settlement is found in Kokoda, Papua New Guinea, 2010

Nissan unveiled the NSC-2015 electric car prototype at the Ceatec 2012 show in Tokyo; the car drove and parked itself, 2012

The Nobel Prize for Chemistry is awarded to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank and Richard Henderson for their work on cryo-electron microscopy, 2017

The Nobel Prize for Physiology and Medicine is awarded to David Julius and Ardem Patapoutian for discovering receptors for temperature and touch, 2021

The Noble Prize for Physics is won by Alain Aspect, John Clauser and Anton Zeilinger for their groundbreaking experiments using entangled quantum states, 2022