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My first thankful today is for the patience of my blog friends, as i am so far behind in reading and responding to blogs from this past weekend being out of town, i may have to give up on catching up. I am not ignoring anyone, just very behind and don't have enough time to get to back to even.
We're thankful Little Girl's wedding came off with the only hitch being they got hitched.
My Sweetie and i were thankful we got Grandma and Grandpa's house done quickly and got to the hotel in time to clean up before the wedding rehearsal and dinner.
The hotel was very nice, thankfully, and had a good breakfast. It was one of the few times each year we were both thankful, too, our church service is livestreamed so we can watch even if we can't be there.
The wedding venue was beautiful and we were thankful the wedding reception did not go on as long as they'd planned, so we got home by 11pm (from a Sunday afternoon/evening wedding over an hour drive away).
I was thankful for 5 hours sleep before we had to turn in the rental and i had to scoot to work.
Yes, thankfully, work went well and i was able to lie down for an hour before that night's ladies' meeting.
Can you see why i'm behind?
Tuesday morning, i was thankful to sleep an extra hour before getting up to go take care of our little Annie.
To say i am thankful for her would be an understatement.
Ms. G was back in town Wednesday and i was thankful we didn't work late and i got paid for last week's catsitting.
All of us at Wednesday night Bible study were thankful to be able to take time out to give support to one of our members who simply needed to talk for a while. When life's tough, you need friends willing to drop an agenda and be there.
Walking into Ms. SE's house on Thursday was like walking into a disaster site, almost. Emmie, mischief in dog form, has perfected the art of going in her kennel and pulling the door behind her so it looks like it's closed. As family members leave for the day, one peeks at her and sees her in there with the door seemingly shut, and they go.
Once she's sure they are gone, she comes out and enjoys herself, this time to the scattering of clean clothing waiting to be folded and the tearing up of a foam rubber ball all over the den.
The rest of the house was not much better. We were thankful to be done in 5 hours.
I'm thankful we had the energy to also do Ms. GA's house after, although it took the starch out of me.
Friday i was thankful, after prayer meeting, to again take care of our little Annie, and this time i brought her some new toys i'd bought as she is getting very bored with the ones she has.
The cat shelter was more than covered Friday night, so again i did extra chores which are often overlooked, we're thankful for extra help and time to do the extras.
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:
Alaska Day -- Alaska, US
Anti-Slavery Day -- yes, there are still slaves in this world, find out how to help them here
Clean Water Act Day -- US (considered by many a day to give thanks for water and open any who are grateful for clean water)
Hard Boiled Guy/B-Girl Day -- on the anniversary of the general release of The Maltese Falcon (initial release was in NYC on Oct. 3)
Independence Day -- Azerbaijan(1991)
Meatloaf Appreciation Day
National Chocolate Cupcake Day (some websites day it is simply Cupcake Day, any flavor)
National Day of Prayer -- Zambia
Nagoya Festival -- Nagoya, Japan (biggest festival in the city; through tomorrow)
National Statistics Day -- Japan
No Beard Day -- internet generated, a day to shave, which is illogical in the northern hemisphere, with winter coming
Pandrosus Festival -- Ancient Greek Calendar (all-refreshing goddess, or all-dewy one; date approximate)
Persons Day -- Canada (Marking the ruling that women are persons in 1929.)
Procession of the Lord of Miracles (Senor de los Milagros) -- Lima, Peru (Christian celebration of the Lord's miracles, with song, dance, prayers, and parades; through tomorrow and again on the 28th)
Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word -- Nashville, TN, US (through Sunday)
St. Luke's Day (The Evangelist; Patron of artists, bachelors/unmarried men, bookbinders, brewers, butchers, doctors/physicians/surgeons, glass makers/glasswrkers, gold workers/goldsmiths, lacemakers/lace workers, notaries, painters, sculptors, stained glass workers, Worshipful Company of Painters; Capena, Italy; Hermersdorf, Germany)
Sweetest Day -- begun by Herbert Birch Kingston, a candy company employee who decided it would be wonderful to distribute candy to the sick, shut-ins and orphans in Cleveland, OH; today is the day to do something for someone that makes him/her say, "Oh, that is so sweet!"
Watch a Squirrel Day -- internet generated, and different from squirrel appreciation day in January
World Menopause Day -- sponsored by the International Menopause Society
World Toy Camera Day -- now with a Flickr page
Anniversaries Today:
Women in Military Service for America Memorial is dedicated, 1997
University of Heidelberg opens, 1386
Birthdays Today:
Zac Efron, 1988
Freida Pintoo, 1984
Lindsey Vonn, 1984
Vincent Spano, 1962
Wynton Marsalis, 1961
Erin Moran, 1960
Jean-Claude Van Damme, 1960
Martina Navratilova, 1956
Pam Dawber, 1951
Terry McMillan, 1951
Ntozake Shange, 1948
Joe Morton, 1947
Laura Nyro, 1947
Mike Ditka, 1939
Dawn Wells, 1938
Peter Boyle, 1935
George C. Scott, 1927
Chuck Berry, 1926
Melina Mercouri, 1923
Jesse Helms, 1921
Anita O'Day, 1919
Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 1919
James David Brooks, 1906
A.J. Liebling, 1904
Lotte Lenya, 1900
Henri Bergson, 1859
Salomon Auguste Andree, 1854
Giovanni Antonio Canaletto, 1697
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Once on This Island"(Play), 1990
"Roseanne"(TV), 1988
"The Girl Is Mine"(Single release), 1982
"Raisin"(Musical), 1973
The Jungle Book(Disney animated film), 1967
"The Apple Tree"(Musical), 1966
“The Yellow Kid Takes a Hand at Golf”(the first actual newspaper comic strip telling a continuing story (as opposed to a single cartoon panel, in American Humorist), 1897
"De Unges Forbund/The League of Youth"(Ibsen play), 1869
"Prometheus"(Liszt S.99), 1855
Moby Dick(Publication date), 1851
Today in History:
Pappus of Alexandria, Greek philosopher, observes an eclipse of the sun and writes a commentary on The Great Astronomer (Almagest), 320
Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, 1009
Battle of Assadun (Ashingdon), Danes defeat Saxons, 1016
Basel, Switzerland is destroyed by the Basel earthquake, the most significant historic seismological event north of the Alps, 1356
Fourth Battle of Kawanakajima -- Takeda Shingen defeats Uesugi Kenshin in the climax of their ongoing conflicts in feudal Japan, 1561
The shoemakers of Boston form the first labor organization in the Colonies/US, 1648
The Mason/Dixon line is agreed upon, 1767
Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is first published as The Whale by Richard Bentley of London, 1851
The US takes formal possession of Alaska from Russia, for $7.2 million, 1867
Edison makes electricity available for household use, 1878
John Owen becomes the first formally timed person to run 100 yd dash in under 10 seconds, 1890
United States takes possession of Puerto Rico, 1898
The British Broadcasting Company (later Corporation) is founded, 1922
The Grand Ole Opry opens in Nashville, Tennessee, 1925
Texas Instruments announces the first Transistor radio, 1954
The Soviet probe Venera 4 reaches Venus and becomes the first spacecraft to measure the atmosphere of another planet, 1967
Azerbaijan becomes independent from the USSR, 1991
After 8 years in exile, Benazir Bhutto returns to her homeland Pakistan, 2007
Saudi Arabia becomes the first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over Syria, 2013
Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir perform the first all-female space walk outside the International Space Station, 2019
American cellist Yo-Yo Ma is awarded the fifth $1 million Birgit Nilsson Prize, 2022
Scholars publish the evidence found of a lost star catalog by 2nd century BC Greek astronomer Hipparchus, who made the earliest known attempt to record celestial objects' coordinates with naked eye, 2022
Turkish energy firm Karpowership cuts electricity to the capital of Guinea-Bissau over an unpaid bill of $15million, 2023
Cuba’s power grid fails after a major power station shuts down, 2024
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