On to Adventure, a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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This week, i was tempted to call my Thankful Day post, "Now what!" but decided "On to Adventure" is more positive, as the Lord has put too many blessings in my life for me to grouse.

Thus my love of this hop.

The trip to Grandma and Grandpa's house went well last Saturday, and somehow i managed to not only do the work and get done on time, but get extra laundry done, which is a big thankful as it helps with everything.

After our usual happy Sunday morning walk with Mr. Cal and going to church with Becca, we had a quick but intense rain shower for which we are thankful.  We aren't really in drought, but we are getting a bit dry.

Ms. D was thankful to see us when Annie and i visited.  Also, i'm thankful when i went back to clean the next day, she was happy with how the shower doors turned out.

There was a little blast from the past Monday morning, i was thankful to have extra work as i went to tidy and refresh Carl's room so he could come home for a visit.  It will be nice to see him next Thursday when i go clean the house, too.

Monday morning also had time for errands, thankfully, as i'd forgotten some things on Friday morning.

I am thankful for our Tuesday morning as this is part of where adventure comes in.  When the men laying new fiber optic cable around here ripped our water line right out of the meter, it was quite a shock.  The thankful things are, first, they broke it, they fixed it, second, it gave me a reminder to be thankful there is running water in my house (and all of it is in sinks, tubs, and toilets where it should be, unlike previous adventures), third, it gave me a story to write for Words for Wednesday.

Tuesday with Annie and time with little Ben while his mama went to the eye doctor was a big thankful, too.

Ms. G's sense of humor was showing Wednesday and i'm thankful, she doesn't often joke or kid around.  We'd been thankful to get Patience the camper back into the driveway and off the street and i did the other chores, we went to Cramco, and after she'd written a check, she cracked a joke and handed me an extra $5, telling me it was a tip for bringing all the purchases in from the car (which i do anyway).

Our Wednesday night Bible study is back in session and all of us were thankful to be there.

Thursday was another adventure as we had a double cleaning and both of us slightly tweaked our backs.  Usually, it's just one or the other of us, and the one doing a bit better steps up the game but this time, we were both thankful to be able to keep going and get everything done.  I was also thankful to lie down for an hour when i got home.

The Friday adventure/thankful involved Lawrence the Honda.  Once the timing chain was replaced, the cold start rattle did not end, as it also needed a VVT solenoid.  Also, a couple of times this week Lawrence gifted me with a warning to check my gas cap, which is a new one, then Friday morning it further gifted me with a check engine light.  The codes are consistent with the same thing which plagued GusGus die Fledermaus (the Ford) for so long, a bad purge valve.

#2 Son, thankfully, had time to change the solenoid, but at first it leaked.  He had to tweak it and finally got it tight, then ran out of time as the rains came.  I'm thankful Lawrence is running well enough to not worry about the other part until he can get to it.

The cat shelter went exceptionally well last night, and Ms. M, my Friday evening volunteer partner was thankful i'd told her my son works on cars as she is now driving with no A/C.  I'm thankful to be able to hook her up with someone.

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It's National Take Your Cat to the Vet Day, and is now celebrated as an International Day, too.  It was started by a vet in the US who declared today a cat's only day for his practice, so his feline patients wouldn't be upset by any dogs in the place.  There are now many vets who schedule "cats only" days throughout the year, to make going a little less traumatizing for felines.

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

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Today is:

America's Cup Day -- the first America's Cup was won this date in 1851 by the yacht America

Be an Angel Day -- Sponsored by Angel Heights Healing Center, encouraging people to be a blessing and perform an act of service for someone

Eat a Peach Day

Feast of the Queenship of Mary & Immaculate Heart of Mary -- Catholic Christians

Flag Day -- Russia

Hoodie Hoo Day, Southern Hemisphere -- Wellcat Holidays says to go outside at noon and call "Hoodie Hoo" to chase away winter and call spring

National Spumoni Day (I don't think I've had really great spumoni since I went to Italy all those years ago -- nothing like getting things at the source.)

St. Symphorian's Day (Patron of children, students; Autun, France; against eye problems, syphilis)

Anniversary Today:

Henry Leland founds the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

Birthdays Today:

Kristin Wiig, 1973

Giada De Laurentiis, 1970

Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, 1967

Tori Amos, 1963

Cindy Williams, 1947

Steve Kroft, 1945

Duane Charles "Bill" Parcells, 1941

Valerie Harper, 1940

Carl Yastrzemski, 1939

E. Annie Proulx, 1935

Norman Schwarzkopf, 1934

Gerald Paul Carr, 1932

Ray Bradbury, 1920

John Lee Hooker, 1917

Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1908

Helene Bertha Amalie "Leni" Riefenstahl, 1902

George Herriman, 1880

Dorothy Parker, 1893

Claude Debussy, 1862

Archibald MacNeal Willard, 1836

Samuel Pierpont Langley, 1834

Virginia Clemm Poe, 1822

St. Anthony of Padua, 1195

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"Later with Bob Costas"(TV), 1988

Today in History:

St. Columba reports seeing a monster in Loch Ness, 565

The Battle of Bosworth Field, in which King Richard III is killed and his forces defeated by Henry VII, 1485

Madras, India (now called Chennai) is founded by the British East India company on land purchased from the local Nayak rulers, 1639

Jacob Barsimon, the first Jewish immigrant to what would become US territory, arrives in New Amsterdam/Manhattan, 1654

The Newport, RI newspaper, Mercury, becomes the first in the US to hire a female editor, Ann Franklin, 1762

Austria launches pilotless balloons against the Italian city of Venice, thus staging the first air raid in history, 1849

Gold discovered in Australia, 1851

12 nations sign the First Geneva Convention and the Red Cross is formed, 1864

William Shepphard patents the first liquid soap, 1885

Founding of the Cadillac Motor Company, 1902

President Theodore Roosevelt becomes the first US chief executive to ride in an automobile, 1902

The first Victor Victrola is manufactured, 1906

The Mona Lisa is stolen, 1911 (recovered 2 years later)

Althea Gibson becomes the first black competitor in international tennis, 1950

Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota, Colombia, becoming the first pope to visit Latin America, 1968

Rhodesia is expelled by the IOC for its racist policies, 1972

The first ring of Neptune is discovered, 1989

A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway, 2004

The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a record 57 million e-mails in one day, 2007

Russia and Vanuatu become members of the World Trade Organization, 2012

India's highest court outlaws instant divorce for Muslim men (talaq, talaq, talaq), 2017

Russia launches Fedor, a life-sized humanoid robot, into space to the International Space Station, 2019

According to the French government, Josephine Baker will be the first black woman to be interred in the Panthéon in Paris, 2021

Dr. Anthony Fauci announces he will step down from his roles as chief medical advisor to the US President and as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 2022

The largest diamond in more than a century, at 2,492 carats, is found in a mine in Botswana, 2024