Blinking Lights and Good Timing , a Ten Things of Thankful Post

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Please excuse if my post makes me sound sleepy, as i am!  I’ve gotten to Thankful Day and i’m thankful for it and hope to get a nap soon.

I am thankful i did get one nap in this week, a full half hour before someone woke me up.  It does not happen often.

As for the blinking lights, Lawrence the Honda has one, the check engine light.  The pastor warned me when he gave me the car, it’s all the gas cap.  No matter how careful i am to put it on correctly, the check engine light will come on sometimes a trip or two after a fill-up, and then go off a trip or two later, or not until after the next fill-up. 

I’m thankful it’s not anything to worry about, and thankful we don’t need inspection stickers any longer, at least for now, as a check engine light coming on for any reason was an automatic fail.

We’ve needed rain for a while and i’m very thankful we’ve gotten some.  Saturday night and into Sunday morning, we had a shower and it stopped just in time for Becca’s and my walk with Mr. Cal.  Mr. Cal was very thankful and so were we.

Then we got the same, a long, soaking shower, Tuesday night and into Wednesday morning, and it stopped just before time to go to work.  Talk about thankful for good timing, twice.

Sunday also saw me at Ms. S’s house since Monday would be in NOLA, and i was thankful to meet Mr. Dan there.  He’s from the former South Vietnam and was “re-educated” for many years before getting out with his wife and 3 boys.  All 3 boys are doctors and take good care of their parents, and Mr. Dan, who speaks little English still, simply runs around the neighborhood visiting with the neighbors.  He showed up while Mr. D was napping and Ms. S was running an errand and was very friendly, but did not wait, striding off to see who else might be home.

#2 Son, Daughter-in-Law, and the children were at an out of town wedding, so i’m thankful i stopped to see Ms. D and have my visit on the way home from Ms. S’s house.  We enjoyed a nice hour together then i went home and was thankful to not have to leave again until morning.

On the way down Monday morning, i was very thankful for an easy trip, and once there, Uncle J was not feeling well at all (stomach upset), so i was thankful to have plenty of Grandma’s stuff to go through myself.

Also, i was thankful to be there when the contractor came to see the punch list of stuff which really needs doing in the house, which Grandpa has been putting off.  It’s getting done, hooray!

I was thankful to spend Monday evening at home instead of spending the night in NOLA (the reason for working Sunday) as i was the discussion leader at ladies’ circle Tuesday morning.

Thankfully my discussion leading was well received and i got to take care of Annie for a few hours when i got home, then of little Ben for a few hours while his mama and Annie napped.  He’s certainly a curious little guy and i was thankful he did nap a bit also, right in my lap.

Ms. G and i were thankful to finally get everything out of Patience the camper on Wednesday so it can go to its new home.  Bible study that evening was led by our most dynamic speaker and we were thankful for the great lesson.

Thursday after Ms. V’s place saw me running rEcess errands, i was thankful they all got done.

Friday with Annie we had a lovely walk, visited Ms. D on the way home, and then there was rEcess.

It’s always a thankful night when rEcess rolls around, i’m thankful our circle provided the meal, thankful we had fun and the parents had a respite.  We all leave tired, the best sign of a good time!

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Today is:

Children's Day -- Malaysia

Commemoration Day -- Tunisia

Day of Accord and Reconciliation -- Russia (formerly Great October Socialist Revolution Day, with the date determined by the Gregorian Calendar)

Digital Scrapbooking Day -- it certainly takes up less room than the other kinds!

Feast of Blessed John Duns Scotus (the Subtle Doctor, known for merging the views from many philosophies)

     Dunce Day -- from the word Dunse, a name for the followers of the philosophy of John Duns Scotus

Feast of Stolen Fire -- find it listed on several sites, but none have any background; maybe celebrate that Prometheus stole fire for us?

International Tongue Twister Day -- internet generated

National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

October Revolution Day -- Belarus; Kyrgyzstan (also called Days of History and Memory); Transdniestria

Sadie Hawkins Day -- US (on Nov. 9 or the Saturday nearest, and based on the Li'l Abner comic, a day for a woman to ask out the man of her choice; also widely observed on Feb. 29 because of a law passed in Scotland in 1288)

Stay Away from Anyone named Honest John Day -- internet generated; no comment

St. Florentius' Day (Patron against gall stones, ruptures)

St. Willibrord's Day (Patron of epileptics; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Utrecht, Netherlands; against convulsions, epilepsy)

Tori No Ichi -- Japan (the first "rooster day" of November, so called because it is held on the two or three days of the rooster this month, days in which to wish good luck and prosperity at temple and shrine ceremonies around the country, and celebrate with a fair)

Anniversary Today:

The Old Stoughton Musical Society, the oldest choral society in the US, is founded, 1786

Birthdays Today:

Jeremy London, 1972

Keith Lockhart, 1959

Joni Mitchell, 1943

Johnny Rivers, 1942

Barry Newman, 1938

Joan Sutherland, 1926

Al Hirt, 1922

Billy Graham, 1918

Albert Camus, 1913

Dean Jagger, 1903

Leon Trotsky, 1879

Madame Marie Curie, 1867

Captain James Cook, 1728

Debuting/Premiering Today:

"America Hurrah"(van Itallie play), 1966

"Face the Nation"(TV), 1954

"Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"(Radio),1932

The Republican Elephant, as drawn by T. Nast in Harper's Weekly, 1874

"The Conscious Lovers"(Steele play), 1722

The Oxford Gazette(first edition), 1665 (Now The London Gazette)

Today in History:

The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, the Ensisheim Meteorite, strikes around noon in a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France, 1492

Pierre Gassendi observes the transit of Mercury as predicted by Kepler, 1631

Anne Htchinson is banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony as a heretic, 1637

The first edition of the "London Gazette", the oldest surviving journal, is published, 1665

Lewis and Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean, 1805

The first Thomas Nast cartoon depicting the Republican Party Elephant is published, 1874

Edward Bouchet becomes the first black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale), 1876

Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, 1893

The first air freight shipment is undertaken by the Wright brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse (from Dayton, Ohio to Columbus, Ohio), 1910

Mao Tse Tung proclaims the "Chinese People's Republic", 1931

Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City, 1933

Carl B. Stokes is elected as Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio, becoming the first African American mayor of a major American city, 1967

Douglas Wilder wins the governor's seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States, 1989

Mary Robinson becomes the first woman to be elected President of the Republic of Ireland, 1990

NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor, 1996

U.S. voters in the state of Massachusetts approve a referendum legalizing the use of medical marijuana; Colorado and Washington approve the legalization of recreational use of the drug, 2012

Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000), 2015

Extreme smog in Delhi, India, leads Indian Medical Association to declare "a state of medical emergency", 2017

The world's oldest figurative painting of an animal, at least 40,000 years old, is identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Borneo, 2018

Queen Elizabeth II confirms that she is no longer buying any clothing that contains real fur, 2019

Chinese taikonaut Wang Yaping becomes the first Chinese female to walk in space, completing a 6 hour space walk as part of the Shenzhou 13 mission, 2021

Cherelle Parker is elected 100th Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania becoming both the first woman and first Black woman mayor of the city, 2023