Joyful Week, a Ten Things of Thankful Post for the A to Z Challenge

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It’s been a joyful week, celebrating Easter and having the family back from Alaska.

While they were gone, i was very thankful for Daughter-in-Law’s car, which has air conditioning.  Of course, i only needed it the first couple of days as it turned cool again, but even one day is a thankful.

My Sweetie and i got to NOLA Saturday and were waiting for Grandpa to leave for mass when it hit me, as it does every year about ten minutes after time for him to leave, Holy Saturday is the only day of the year the Catholics don’t have mass.  We were thankful he left his room for the office long enough for us to clean it, then left the office and went back in his room so we could do the office. 

I’m thankful Grandpa is funny this way, not wanting anyone messing in his stuff and fussing about it, but letting us do it anyway.

It was warm and overcast that day, too, and while we were in NOLA it stormed up where we live.  We were thankful not to drive in it as it was over before we got back, and #2 Son had #1 Son go in the RV to make sure it hadn’t leaked.  We’re very thankful it had not.

Easter Sunday morning we got up to another cool spell.  Mr. Cal was thankful for his walk, but we kept it a bit short as i have no idea where they keep his sweaters.

All of us were thankful for a beautiful Easter Sunday service.

That afternoon, i was very thankful to catch up on a few things around the house, no stress to be somewhere and do something.

Carl’s place went as always on Monday, with him chattering away.  He kept talking about a fire and Ms. S filled me in later at her house, her nextdoor neighbor had a house fire over the weekend.  Everyone is thankful no one was hurt.  Mr. D is a former insurance adjuster, he’s thankful to be going over there to give advice as one of his friends from the business is the adjuster and he knows the restoration company people and is a good friend of the owner.

I’m thankful our fire department did a great job, as awful as it is to have such an occurrence, it’s good to know we have well trained and efficient first responders if it’s ever us in such a situation.

Tuesday was the ladies’ circle meeting and i facilitated the discussion on Lydia and women’s roles in church.  I was thankful it went well and riding there and back with Ms. V is always a delight, we have wonderful discussions.

It was also the day #2 Son and crew got home.  He and Daughter-in-Law were on the brink of falling over, so i was thankful to be able to take our little Annie and keep her the whole afternoon.  She was a bundle of energy until all at once, at 5pm, tick of the dot, she fell asleep standing up with her head leaned on my lap!  I was thankful to pull her into my lap and let her nap as i rocked, and thankful she did wake up when i got her up 30 minutes later.  (We’d agreed if she did nap, it needed to be no more than that, as they wanted her back on her schedule ASAP.)

After doing a morning shift at the cat shelter, i got to Ms. G’s Wednesday to find she really wanted to get to her retirement place in Mississippi to get a few things done.  I’m thankful we had a safe trip and while we didn’t get everything done, we’re thankful we got most things.

It was Kevin and Lenny Thursday after Ms. V’s place, always one of those days where i need a contingency plan if everything doesn’t go as well as it should.  I’m thankful it all went like clockwork and as tired as i am when it’s done, it was done well and rather on the early side.  I was thankful to lie down when i got home, too.

While #2 Son and Daughter-in-Law are housesitting for Aunt May for the next week plus, i’m thankful they are coming home at various times through the week so i can still tend Annie, it went well yesterday and she got a great nap (unlike some days when she won’t sleep).

The cat shelter had lots of extra hands for the work Friday evening, and we’re thankful we can work and talk and laugh and cut up and have a good time together while working for a good cause.

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Today is:

Baby Massage Day

Barbershop Quartet Day -- founding day of the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet Singing in America

Buchenwald Liberation Day -- at 3:15pm local time, by the Third Army

Eight Track Tape Day -- do you remember those; someone who fondly does has a day to honor them

Festival of Unmediated Play -- just go out there and have fun, like kids do

Holy Saturday -- Orthodox Christian

International "Louie Louie" Day -- a song that caused such a stir it deserves a day; on the birth anniversary of its composer, Richard Berry

Juan Santamaria Day -- Costa Rica (commemoration of the hero of the Battle of Rivas)

Liberation Day -- Uganda (fall of Idi Amin)

M&M Crisis in Space Day -- on this day in 1996, American astronaut Shannon Lucid reported from Space Station Mir that she was out of M&Ms; it was the only thing she regularly requested for resupply in her 188 days there!

National Cheese Fondue Day

Slow Art Day -- a global all-volunteer event with the simple mission of helping more people discover for themselves the joy of looking at and loving art  

St. Antipas' Day (spiritual student of St. John, mentioned in the Book of the Revelation of St. John)

St. Stanislaus' Day (Patron of soldiers in battle; Cracow, Poland; Plock, Poland; Poland, where he is celebrated on May 8)

World Parkinson's Disease Day

Yasurai Matsuri -- Imamiya Jinja, Kyoto, Japan (festival to prevent ill health)

Anniversary Today:

Spelman College is founded, 1881

Birthdays Today:

Joss Stone, 1987

Tricia Helfer, 1974

Vincent Gallo, 1961

Bill Irwin, 1950

Ellen Goodman, 1948

Meshach Taylor, 1947

Peter Riegert, 1947

Louise Lasser, 1939

Richard Berry, 1935

Tony Brown, 1933

Joel Grey, 1932

Ethel Kennedy, 1928

Oleg Cassini, 1913

Jane Matilda Bolin, 1908

Dalia "Dale" Messick, 1906

Percy Julian, 1899

Lizzie “Lillie” Bliss, 1864

Charles Evans Hughes, 1862

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"On Your Toes"(Musical), 1936

"Matthäus-Passion/St. Matthew's Passion"(Bach BWV 244), 1727

Today in History:

William III and Mary II are crowned as joint sovereigns of Britain, 1689

The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place, 1775

President Abraham Lincoln makes his last public speech, urging a spirit of conciliation during reconstruction, 1865

The Shogunate is abolished in Japan, 1868

The Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks is organized, 1876

Ellis Island is designated as an immigration station, 1890

Spain cedes Puerto Rico to the United States in the treaty ending the Spanish American War, 1899

The US Navy acquires its first submarine, designed by John P. Holland, 1900

Albert Einstein announces his Special Theory of Relativity, 1905

The International Labour Organization is founded, 1919

The Stone of Scone, the stone upon which Scottish monarchs were traditionally crowned, is found in Arbroath Abbey where Scottish nationalist students had taken it from Westminster Abbey, 1951

Britain agrees to Singaporean self-rule, 1957

Apollo 13 is launched, 1970

The Apple I is created, 1976

Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is deposed, 1979

The London Agreement is secretly signed between Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein of Jordan, 1987

Australia beats American Samoa in a 31-0 win, the biggest ever in an international match of football, 2001

The French ban of Islamic women's face coverings goes into effect, 2011

Fossilized dinosaur eggs complete with embryos are found in China, 2013

European Union leaders agree to allow a six-month extension for Brexit after UK leaders fail to reach a consensus, 2019

What is thought to be large gas cloud entering a supermassive black hole eight million lights years away causes the largest cosmic explosion every recorded from Earth, 2023

Bogotá, Colombia begins water rationing as water reservoirs run very low due to drought and El Niño, 2024