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It's been a most unusual and almost wacky week with lots of fun and almost wacky thankful things.
Grandma texted last Friday evening saying she was sick and so was Uncle J. I told her I'd mask and glove up and stay away from them.
Uncle J was feeling rather sick and had been staying away from everyone, but Grandma had no symptoms except her usual chronic cough, the one induced by her years on a particular medication. She was nowhere near as sick as Uncle J, and didn't seem like she had anything at all.
It was a bit wacky, too, Grandpa had no symptoms, even though he takes care of Grandma.
We're thankful everyone seems recovered by now.
We had some rain over that weekend and Sunday morning, just as Becca, Mr. Cal and i stepped out for our walk it started to drizzle. At first we kept going, but when the drizzle got worse, we turned to go back in the house.
It was a bit wacky, if a thankful thing, as soon as we got back to the porch stairs the drizzle stopped. We were able to take a walk after all, and we all know dogs are especially excited and thankful for every walk.
That afternoon i was thankful to babysit out at Aunt A's house, where #2 Son and His Bride are storing the RV. It was rainy off and on and i found it a bit wacky the baby's favorite place to sleep was being rocked on the porch swing right in the middle of a storm.
Monday went its normal course until it was time to go see Ms. JAI. She actually wanted me to come, but i arrived to find her doing something wacky, hiding her face behind her heating pad.
"I had all my teeth pulled and I'm bruised and I look so bad I made my daughter cover the mirror so I don't have to look at myself and I don't want anyone to see me!"
She spent the whole time i was there trying to cover her face, finally wrapping herself up like a babushka and tying a knot in her scarf right over her mouth so i could barely hear what she was saying.
Anyway, i was thankful she's finally having her teeth tended, she's had a terrible time.
After i was done cleaning, she sent me to the pharmacy at the worst time of day to get Sucrets for her sore mouth. I was thankful i somehow managed to miss the worst of the traffic, both ways as well as going home later, and thankful she accepted a Vicks products when it turns out the pharmacy doesn't have Sucrets brand in-store.
Because we get a newspaper, i'd promised a neighbor to drop off old papers because they now have a pet bird and want paper to line the cage.
Tuesday morning i was thankful to be able to drop the papers off, i like to see them used for something. It was rather wacky, later, the wife sent me a message saying she wouldn't need my papers as someone had dropped papers off that morning to her husband, and we both laughed when i sent the message back that i was the one who had done it!
I'm also thankful she wants papers every week, so now i know where mine are going to go.
Once the papers were out of the way, it was time to go to Ms. V's and pick her up for the ladies' circle meeting. It was a bit wacky, after we got everything loaded in her car, to find her car wouldn't start!
I was thankful my GusGus has heat and thankful this happened in winter, it would be brutal to try to make her ride in the hotbox with no A/C to a meeting in warm months.
I'm also thankful she was a good sport about riding in my old beater.
This was also the day my Sweetie took Link Linker the Stinker to the vet as he'd developed very stinky and soft poop. They took the samples and took blood and sent him home with meds.
Two days later we were thankful to find out there's nothing wrong with him, and the meds are working he doesn't have the nasty poop any longer.
The wacky thing is, after he threatened more than once to take my hand off while giving him meds, i'm thankful i decided to buy chicken baby food and mix his meds in it. He's eating ever scrap and getting his meds painlessly for both of us.
Ms. G called to tell me she's sick and not to come Wednesday except to pick up a check for the work i'd done when she was out of town. Then that morning she called to ask me to go to the grocery for her after doing my other work.
It was a bit wacky the way she wanted me to do all the work, including on the other side of town, then come back to her side to shop. I'm thankful she agreed i could get her stuff before leaving the area. I'm also thankful i got home a good bit earlier than i usually do on Wednesdays.
Anyone who reads our every-other-week saga with the recalcitrant gate knows Ms. SE's place can be difficult. It was wacky, they've supposedly fixed the gate, but it turns out you have to hold the special clickers at a certain angle and a certain distance, and if you use the pad at the gate you have to be careful how quickly you tap in the numbers...
We're thankful we got in, thankful we got it all done, and thankful Mr. DE was there to close the gate behind us.
Ms. GA texted after i was asleep Thursday night to tell me Mr. BA was sick and we wouldn't meet at the church for prayer, but just over the phone, and also i shouldn't come clean the house.
I didn't get the message until morning, and just as i did she texted he was okay and what did i want to do?
I told her i was going to the church to make coffee for the other meeting they have there every Friday, and then i had an errand and i'd come over, but we could still do the prayer call.
The wacky is she texted back, "Let's play it by ear."
I had no clue what she meant, but i'm thankful i got my last measurements done for my lenses for cataract surgery coming up and thankful Mr. BA was feeling okay when i went over there to clean.
Then there was the shelter yesterday for the evening shift. I walked in to a wacky crowded place which had been empty 20 minutes before and they did 5 adoptions in 30 minutes! Then all of them left with their cats and the place was totally quiet the rest of the evening.
We're just thankful it happened, even if it all had to happen at once.
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:
Burning of the Clavie -- Burghead, Scotland (ancient ritual to ensure good luck through the year)
Carmentalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (festival of the goddess of childbirth)
Children's Day -- Thailand
Cuckoo Dancing Week begins -- in honor of Laurel & Hardy, whose theme song was "The Dancing Cuckoos"; watch some of their fabulous material this week, and introduce it to a new fan
Designated Hitter Day -- the American League adopted the "designated hitter" rule on this date in 1973
Feast of Sokar -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (date approximate)
Independence Manifesto Day -- Morocco(1944); Western Sahara(1944)
International Thank You Day -- as declared by Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith
Juturnalia -- Ancient Roman Calendar (goddess of prophetic waters festival)
Kosrae Constitution Day -- Micronesia
Milk Day
National Hot Toddy Day
Secret Pal Day -- no info found on the origin, it's a secret! do something nice for someone, secretly.
Step in a Puddle and Splash Your Friends Day -- just don't do it to your secret pal
Sts. Paldo, Taso, and Tato's Day (founders of the monastery of San Vincenzo)
St. Theodosius of Cappadocia (Patron of file makers)
Tattoo Pride Day
Birthdays Today:
Amanda Peet, 1972
Mary Blige, 1971
Kim Coles, 1962
Stanley Tucci, 1960
Ben Crenshaw, 1952
Christine Kaufmann, 1945
Naomi Judd, 1946
Jim Hightower, 1943
Clarence Clemens, 1942
Jean Chretien, 1934
Rod Taylor, 1930
Grant Tinker, 1926
Alice Paul, 1885
William James, 1842
Eugenio Maria Hostos, 1839
John A. Macdonald, 1815
Alexander Hamilton, 1755
Theodosius I, 347
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Daktari"(TV), 1966
"Have a Heart"(Musical), 1917
Today in History:
Prophet of Islam Muhammad leads an army of 10,000 Muslims to conquer Mecca, 630
The first recorded lottery in England is drawn in St. Paul's Cathedral, 1569
Isaac Newton is elected a member of the Royal Society, 1642
Mt. Etna erupts, 1693
William Herschel discovers Titania and Oberon, the moons of Uranus, 1787
An earthquake in Martinique destroys half of Port Royal and results in about 700 deaths, 1839
Charring Cross Station opens in London, 1864
Milk is first delivered in bottles, 1878
Martha H. Cannon becomes the first woman state senator in the US, in Utah, 1897
The Hudson, the first sedan type automobile, goes on display at the 13th Auto Show in NYC, 1913
The first use of insulin to treat diabetes in a human patient occurs in Canada, with 14-year-old Leonard Thompson, 1922
Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Honolulu to Oakland, California, 1935
The first recorded snowfall in Los Angeles, California, 1949
United States Surgeon General Luther Leonidas Terry, M.D., publishes a landmark report saying that smoking may be hazardous to health, sparking nation- and worldwide anti-smoking efforts, 1964
The Gateway Bridge, Brisbane in Queensland, Australia is officially opened, 1986
The government of Ireland announces the end of a 20-year broadcasting ban on the IRA, 1994
Illinois Governor George Ryan commutes the death sentences of 167 prisoners on Illinois' death row based on the Jon Burge scandal, 2003
Forty-six people are killed and 12 are missing after a landslide buries a village in the Yunnan province, China, 2013
In China's first significant #MeToo moment Beihang University in Beijing fires a professor for sexual misconduct, 2018
Taiwan re-elects Tsai Ing-wen for a second term as president by a landslide, 2020
Archaeologists announce the discovery of a huge ancient city in the Amazon, in the Upano area of eastern Ecuador, capable of supporting 10,000 people with sophisticated roads and canals, 2024