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Much more frequently than usual, i’ve gotten to use the air machines at gas stations and i’m very thankful they exist and i know how to use them.
Some might remember Daughter-in-Law’s car tires were low on the way to NOLA for Thanksgiving, so we aired them up and all seemed to be good.
On the way to NOLA again Saturday, something told me to check and sure enough, i’m thankful i did as they were a bit low again, especially the passenger rear.
We were thankful for much needed rain on Sunday, and that evening, i was very thankful to share a meal with my little Annie.
Young Jacob was in town! I was so very thankful to get to give him a hug in person and talk to him for a while, it’s probably been 3+ years. He’s doing well, has become a licensed arborist and is about to become engaged (she knows it’s coming but not when, he’s already got the ring).
#2 Son got his drone flying, with plenty of help from Daughter-in-Law. We were all thankful, they’d been working on it (they want to use it to survey the land they’ve bought).
We’re also thankful #2 Son was able to change the sensor on his car — at night with the car pulled up to the front porch for the light no less. I’m also thankful for the headlamp some worker left here long ago, it was just the ticket and now he has a really good quality headlamp.
Then #1 Son’s car check engine light came on, we were thankful it was just a sensor, and thankful #2 Son has a reader so we’d know it wasn’t anything bad.
A couple of months ago, Link Linker the Stinker, our cat, began having “digestive trouble.” We put him on special food and it cleared up, but lately he quit eating. The vet found nothing wrong as far as blood work, thankfully, but thought she could palpate something, possibly a small mass, in his abdomen.
We took him for X-rays and are thankful he not only cooperated so well they didn’t have to sedate him to get the X-rays taken, the vet reading them said there’s nothing wrong, it’s all clear. Whatever the first vet felt might have been something distending his intestines, so i’ve been saying he had a fart caught crosswise and leaving it at that.
We’re thankful all seems well, and while he still won’t eat the expensive food that's supposed to be better for him, we’re thankful he’s eating again at all and putting on a bit of the weight he lost on his hunger strike.
On the way to our Tuesday ladies’ circle meeting, Ms. V’s car had the tire light come on, showing the tires are low. Once again, i’m thankful for the many gas stations with air machines and knowing how easy they are to use now. The cold weather which has moved in can make your tires lose pressure, we were thankful to air them up and get to our meeting, which went very well.
The work for Ms. G was not overwhelming Wednesday, and i’m very thankful because Thursday with both Ms. V and then Kevin and Lenny’s place about did me in. I’m very thankful Ms. V’s house went so smoothly, it usually takes 7 hours, i did it in right at 6, which meant we finished Kevin and Lenny’s early and i was thankful to lie down for half an hour.
We had extra help at the shelter tonight, and we're all thankful for that. I'm thankful we found the key to open the hand sanitizer stations mounted on the walls and i was able to figure out how to open and refill them.
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:
Akibasan Gongen Hibuse Matsuri -- Odawara, Japan (ritual giving thanks for fire and water)
Bartender Appreciation Day
Day of Quito -- Ecuador (founding of the city in 1534)
Dia de la Constitucion Espanola -- Spain (Constitution Day)
Give a Secret Gift Day -- obviously in honor of the original St. Nicholas
Independence Day -- Aland Islands(1917); Finland(1917)
Microwave Oven Day -- patented this day in 1945
Mitten Tree Day -- remembering when mittens, along with maybe a knit cap or scarf, were the big gift to find hanging from the Christmas tree
National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women -- Canada
National Gazpacho Day
National Miner's Day -- US
Pawnbrokers' Day -- on St. Nicholas' Day, in his role as Patron Saint of pawnbrokers
Sindhi Topi and Ajrak Day -- Sindh, Pakistan
SKYWARN Recognition Day -- National Weather Service, NOAA, and Amateur Radio Operators, working together to report dangerous weather conditions
St. Nicholas of Myra's Day (Patron of apothecaries/druggists/pharmacists, archers, bakers, barrel makers, boatmen, bootblacks/shoe shiners, boys, brewers, brides, captives, children, coopers, dock workers/longshoremen, fishermen, grooms, judges, lawsuits lost unjustly, maidens, mariners/sailors, merchants, penitent murderers, newlyweds, old maids, parish clerks, paupers/poor people, pawnbrokers, perfumers, pilgrims, prisoners, scholars, schoolchildren, spinsters, students, penitent thieves, travelers, unmarried girls; Greek Catholic Church in America; Greek Catholic Union; University of Paris; Varangian Guard; Greece; Russia; also dozens of cities around the world; against imprisonment, robberies, robbers)
Christkind -- Central and Southern Europe (the traditional gift giving day, instead of Christmas)
Birthdays Today:
Andrew J. Howard, 1969
Macy Gray, 1969
Janine Turner, 1962
Andrew Cuomo, 1957
Peter Buck, 1956
Randy Rhoads, 1956
Steven Wright, 1955
Tom Hulce, 1953
JoBeth Williams, 1953
Craig Newmark, 1952
James Naughton, 1945
David Ossman, 1936
Wally Cox, 1924
Dave Brubeck, 1920
Agnes Moorehead, 1906
Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1898
Ira Gershwin, 1896
Lynn Fontanne, 1887
Joyce Kilmer, 1886
William S. Hard, 1870
John Singleton Mosby, 1833
Debuting/Premiering Today:
Star Trek VI- The Undiscovered Country(Film), 1991
"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"(TV special), 1964
"Talent Scouts"(TV), 1948
"Du Barry Was a Lady"(Porter musical), 1939
"La damnation de Faust"(Berlioz opera, Op, 24), 1846
Today in History:
The Mongols under Batu Khan occupy and destroy Kiev, 1240
Don Alfonso V of Aragon grants Barcelona the right to exclude Jews, 1424
The first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is published, in Scotland, 1768
Harriet Tubman escapes slavery, 1849
The 13th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery, 1865
The first crematorium in the Us begins operation, in Washington, Pennsylvania, 1876
London becomes the first city to license taxicabs, 1897
One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State comes into existence, 1922
U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene, 1933
The Vanguard rocket, the first US attempt to launch a satellite, fails, 1957
The Canadian province of Newfoundland is renamed Newfoundland and Labrador, 2001
NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars, 2006
Belgium's new federal government is sworn in after 541 days of negotiations, 2011
Pope Francis gives his assent to a proposal to create a permanent post on the Pontifical Commission on cases of sin and sexual abuse of minors, 2013
President Trump officially recognizes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announces plans to move the US Embassy there, 2017
Details of the most distant black hole yet discovered, 13billion light-years away and 800X larger than our Sun, are published in the journal Nature, 2017
The Japanese space capsule Hayabusa-2 lands safely back on earth in Australia, carrying the first significant rock samples from an asteroid, the Ryugu, 2020
The 1,574th and final Boeing 747 jumbo jet rolls off the production line in Everett, Washington, 2022
The first large scale offshore wind farm, South Fork Wind, begins supplying electricity to Long Island, New York, 2023
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