Very Good Week, a Ten Things of Thankful A to Z Post

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It’s been a very good week and i’m thankful for Thankful Day when i sit and reflect on it.  I don’t say it often enough, i am thankful for the Ten Things blog hop and that it is continuing.

My Sweetie and i were going to need a rental for NOLA last week and the whole of Friday was going to be tight, but i’m very thankful we were able to get the rental and i was still able to get Becca that evening.  Saturday went well, thankfully, including returning the rental.

I’m thankful i’ve gotten in the habit of bringing a snack to NOLA with me as it can be a long day, too.

We woke Sunday morning to the drip of rain and i was immediately disappointed on Mr. Cal’s behalf, as he so loves his walks and he loathes rain.  When i arrived at Becca’s he was in her sister’s room and i thought we would get away without him even realizing what was up but no, he barked to be let out and came zooming down the stairs so merrily and so confident he would get his walk in we couldn’t disappoint him.  

I put the leash on him knowing if he felt rain, he would come back in voluntarily, but thankfully the rain was about done for the day and while we did feel the occasional drop, it wasn’t enough to stop us and Mr. Cal was most thankful, too.

Sunday evening was spent with my little appetite, um, i mean, my little Annie.  We were thankful to visit Ms. D who is doing much better, and i was thankful i didn’t run out of food for the child.  She ate half of my salad, half of my vegan tika masala, most of a can of petit pois peas, a banana, some berries, a fruit squeeze pack, bread and butter and i do not remember what all else but it felt like she was eating the whole time.

I’m just thankful it’s all real food, unlike the unfortunate children whose parents raise them on chicken nuggets, fried potatoes and pizza.

Monday morning at Carl’s i noted an emergency vehicle at the house next to Ms. S which burned a couple of weeks ago and i wondered what was wrong now.  Turns out the homeowner, Mr. Joe, was there trying to sort and throw away and salvage and he fell and broke his hip!

We’re thankful the medics were there quickly and Ms. S and Mr. D rallied right away to get his car back to the apartment where his family is staying while the house is repaired and then get his family up to the hospital to be with him.  He’s the only member of the family who can drive, so i’m thankful to know people like Ms. S and Mr. D, who will be taking Mr. Joe’s wife and daughter anywhere they need to go while his hip heals and he relearns to walk.

I’m thankful i was able to do my work as usual for Ms. S, which takes one thing off her mind.

On Tuesday i had a very happy moment with little Annie.  She usually takes her nap on her sleep blanket on the couch, but this time she insisted she be allowed to climb up onto the pillow on the other end of the couch where i also have a bit of a lie down while she snoozes.  She’s not snuggled with me while she slept since she was a wee thing and it was precious and i’m thankful.

This one keeps you on your toes.

Last week while Ms. G was out of town, Ms. Fiona dropped her phone and it broke and she was missing it, especially as she calls her sister in another state every evening.  Ms. G ordered a new one as soon as she got back in town and had the shipping expedited, and it showed up Wednesday just as she had to leave for an appointment.  I’m very thankful i know how to get out to the retirement home so i could take it to the administrative lady who had the SIM card and by that evening, Ms. Fiona was happily back to calling everyone she could.

I’m very thankful this past Thursday was the one Thursday each month where i only have one job, with Ms. V.  It went well, thankfully, and everything was timed so Ms. V was actually able to see the kitchen in its clean and pristine beauty before Carl got up to have his breakfast and mess it again.

Friday i was thankful to get all the morning things done and then stay extra with Annie while her mama had a nap.  Working full time with a toddler and while also pregnant is exhausting and she needs all the naps she can get.

You are looking at a huge thankful, Ms. Ellen of 15AndMeowing and her niece have their book out, and she gifted our little Annie a signed copy!  It’s a delightful story and you can buy it on Amazon.

The shelter last night went perfectly, there was an adoption and one preadopted kitty was taken home, everyone got fed and watered and given scritches if they wanted them!

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Today is:

Adonia -- Greece (women's festival mourning the death of Adonis; date approximate)

ANZAC Day -- Australia; Christmas Island; Cocos (Keeling) Islands; Cook Islands; New Zealand; Niue; Norfolk Island; Tonga

Army Day -- North Korea

Astronomy Day 2026 / Spring Astronomy Day -- Saturday at or before the first quarter moon between mid-April and mid-May 

     sponsored by The Astronomical League; find out what your local astronomy society is doing today, and go enjoy

DNA Day -- structure of DNA first published this day in 1953; human genome project ended today in 2003; related observance

     National DNA Day -- a day for teachers, students, and everyone to learn more about genetics and genomics 

 sponsored by genome.gov and the Smithsonian

Duck Appreciation Society Day -- The Duck Appreciation Society (some sites say May 10; either way, go feed the ducks if you like them, but not stale white bread, it's no better for them than it is for us)

East Meets West Day -- Allies from the East and West finally met up this day in 1945 about 75 miles from Berlin

Festival of Robigalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (to protect against corn blight; festival of Robiga and Rogibus, the brother and sister fertility gods)

Flag Day -- Faroe Islands; Swaziland

Gio to Hung Vuong Day -- Vietnam (National Day; celebrating the founding of the nation by Emperor Hung Vuong some three millennia ago)

Hairstylist Appreciation Day -- if you have a good one, let him/her know (some sites put this on the 30th)

Hug A Plumber Day -- because when you are knee deep in it, you really need them around

Independent Bookstore Day -- US (celebrate independent bookstores and support local business!)

International Marconi Day -- a 24-hour amateur radio event annually near the birth anniversary of Marconi (Apr. 25, 1874)

Liberation Day -- Italy; Portugal

National Crayola Day -- no one claims starting this holiday, observe it with your children/grandchildren/nieces/nephews/kids down the street, and remember how fun it is to color pictures

National Go Birding Day -- US (but feel free to participate wherever you are, birding is fun!)

National Herb Day -- different from the HerbDay in May, and unsponsored

National Sense of Smell Day -- US (sponsored by the Sense of Smell Institute, encouraging museums and science centers to focus on how the sense of smell plays an important role in daily life and how it interacts with other senses; While celebrating, remember those with anosmia [diminished ability or total inability to smell])

National Zucchini Bread Day -- they hold this at a time when you are not yet sick of all that zucchini you grew in the garden

Parental Alienation Awareness Day -- raising awareness of Parental Alienation or Hostile Aggressive Parenting   

Red Hat Society Day -- first Red Hat Tea Party held this day in 1998

Sinai Liberation Day -- Egypt

Save the Frogs Day -- Save The Frogs Day is the world's largest day of amphibian education and conservation action 

St. Mark the Evangelist's Day (Patron of attorneys/barristers/lawyers/notaries, captives, glaziers, imprisoned people/prisoners, lions, stained glass workers, struma patients; Egypt; Boretto, Italy; Creazzo, Italy; Infanta, Philippines; Ionian Islands; Pordenone, Italy; Sonnino, Italy; Venice, Italy; against impenitence, insect bites, scrofulous diseases, struma)

Tag des Baumes -- Germany (Tree Day/Arbor Day)

World Healing Day / World Tai Chi and Qigong Day   

World Malaria Day / Malaria Awareness Day -- WHO and the International Community

World Penguin Day -- because they begin migrating on or around this day 

World Veterinary Day -- World Veterinary Association       

20-Something Service Day -- can't find who started this one, but it's a good idea, whomever it was, whether you are 20 or older to do some community service or volunteer work regularly

Anniversaries Today:

Theodore Roosevelt National Park is established, ND, US, 1947

The United Negro College Fund is founded, 1944

Birthdays Today:

Jacob Underwood, 1980

Emily Bergl, 1975

Jason Lee, 1970

Renee Zellweger, 1969

Hank Azaria, 1964

Jeffrey DeMunn, 1947

Talia Shire, 1946

Stu Cook, 1945

Bjorn Ulvaeus, 1945

Al Pacino, 1940

"Meadowlark" Lemon, 1932

Paul Mazursky, 1930

Albert King, 1923

Ella Fitzgerald, 1918

Edward R. Murrow, 1908

William Joseph Brennan, Jr., 1906

John Henry "Pop" Lloyd, 1884

Guglielmo Marconi, 1874

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Little Murders"(Play), 1967

"Romulus the Great"(Play), 1949

"Another Language"(Play), 1932

"Turandot"(Opera), 1926

Robinson Crusoe(Publication date), 1719

Today in History:

Lysander's Spartan Armies defeated the Athenians and the Peloponnesian War ends, BC404

German geographer and mapmaker Martin Waldseemuller publishes his Cosmographiae Introductio map in which he gives the American continents their name, 1507

Highwayman Nicholas Pelletier becomes the first person executed by guillotine, 1792

Charles Fremantle arrives in the HMS Challenger off the coast of modern-day Western Australia prior to declaring the Swan River Colony for the United Kingdom, 1829

The last survivors of the Donner Party arrive back in civilization, 1847

The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots, 1849

British and French engineers break ground for the Suez Canal, 1859

New York State becomes the first US state to require automobiles to be licensed, 1901

First DC Comic with Batman is published, 1939

Fifty nations gather in San Francisco, California to begin the United Nations Conference on International Organizations, 1945

Francis Crick and James D. Watson publish Molecular structure of nucleic acids: a structure for deoxyribose nucleic acid describing the double helix structure of DNA, 1953

The St. Lawrence Seaway, linking the North American Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean, officially opens to shipping, 1959

Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit, 1961

Israel completes its withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula per the Camp David Accords, 1982

American schoolgirl Samantha Smith is invited to visit the Soviet Union by its leader Yuri Andropov after he read her letter in which she expressed fears about nuclear war, 1983

Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto's orbit, 1983

The Hubble Telescope is deployed, 1990

The Human Genome Project comes to an end 2.5 years before first anticipated, 2003

The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937, 2005

Bulgaria and Romania sign accession treaties to join the European Union, 2005

The U.S. government 'condemns' international media outlets, including 'The New York Times' for publishing confidential files, 2011

 The United Kingdom reopens its embassy in Somalia after 22 years, 2013

A fossil unearthed in China has been identified as a new pterosaur species; named Kryptodrakon progenitor, the fossil is the first of its kind to show traits of pterodactyls, giant flying reptiles, 2014

Microsoft becomes the third US firm to be listed with a market worth of 1 trillion, after Apple and Amazon, 2019

Charlotte Bronte's "A Book of Rhymes", written when she was 13, sells at auction in New York for $1.25 million to Friends of the National Libraries for the Brontë Parsonage Museum, 2022

A Japanese M1 spacecraft crashes on the moon in its attempt to become the first privately-owned spacecraft to land there, 2023

The Chinese Academy of Sciences publishes the highest-ever resolution map of the moon, the "Geologic Atlas of the Lunar Globe", 2024