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It's been a long week and it's a tired Thankful Day, as i haven't had much sleep.
I'm thankful for the sleep I've gotten.
A good friend of Uncle P came by to visit last Saturday, Grandma and I were very thankful to see her.
Our church had a most beautiful Palm Sunday service. Becca and i were thankful to have a few minutes with Amos, the donkey that takes part in our procession some years (other years, it's one of his friends).
We were thankful there was a fun picnic after, too.
Monday i was thankful to get home before the heavy windstorm started.
Ms. A, Becca's mom, had extra meetings this week, and Holy Week is busy for everyone who works at the church, including her father, Mr. J. I was thankful to be able to stay with her both Tuesday night and Thursday night, during the Maundy Thursday service.
All of us are thankful Ms. A's meetings for work resulted in a positive thing for her workplace, a type of accreditation they'd been seeking.
Wednesday afternoon, Ms. G had to get ready for meetings, so i was thankful to get home early and catch a catnap.
Sweetie and Brother-in-Law, thankfully, got out of town just as planned, and got back early, and had a good visit with family.
They were also thankful to come back with pictures and memorabilia from the family.
Our Friday morning prayer group does not meet at the church on Good Friday, we meet at Ms. GA and Mr. BA's house, and we were thankful to them as usual for hosting.
Ms. GA did a lot of vegan cooking this week and sent me home with some after i'd done the cleaning.
The cat shelter is about empty right now, but the foster homes are full of kittens. We're thankful for the break.
Please write up your own list and link up to Ten Things of Thankful, where Dyanne and her co-hosts always have a warm welcome waiting.
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Today is:
Check for Change in Every Coin Return You Pass Day -- because someone has a sense of humor and put it on the internet
Culture and Traditions Day -- Micronesia
Doctors Day -- US (begun by Eudora Almond in 1933 because she thought her husband, Dr. Charles B. Almond deserved recognition for his hard work; www.doctorsday.org for ideas on how to thank your doctor)
Feast of Janus and Concordia -- Ancient Roman Calendar
Festival of Bast -- Ancient Egyptian Calendar (cat goddess; date approximate)
Festival of Reality Fabrication -- internet holiday to celebrate your imagination
Festival of Salus -- Ancient Roman Calendar (god of health)
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day -- remember how good you have it; sponsored by Wellcat Holidays
Holy Saturday -- Christian (a/k/a Black Saturday, Holy Saturday, Easter Saturday, or Easter Eve)
I am in Control Day -- remember Alexander Haig's words on this date in 1981? well today, if you find the phones won't stop ringing, the kids got into the glue again, the coffee maker is on the fritz, and somebody dyed the poodle purple, stand up and declare that you are in control!
Land Day Commemoration -- West Bank/Palestinian remembrance
Limited Liability Day -- because no one can be responsible for everything
Pencil Day -- the pencil with an eraser top was patented this day in 1858 by Hyman Lipman
Runic Half-Month Ewhas (Horse) begins
Spiritual Baptist/Shouter Liberation Day -- Trinidad and Tobago
St. Leonard Murialdo's Day (Patron of apprentices)
Take a Walk in the Park Day -- begun by someone who wanted to get out of the office
Turkey Neck Soup Day
Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day -- US (information here)
Birthdays Today:
Scott Moffatt, 1983
Jason Dohring, 1982
Norah Jones, 1979
Matt Doran, 1976
Mark Consuelos, 1971
Celine Dion, 1968
Ian Ziering, 1964
Tracy Chapman, 1964
M.C. Hammer, 1962
Paul Reiser, 1957
Robbie Cotrane, 1950
Eric Clapton, 1945
Astrud Gilberto, 1940
Warren Beatty, 1937
John Astin, 1930
Rolf Harris, 1930
Peter Marshall, 1930
Richard Dysart, 1929
Peter Marshall, 1927
Frankie Laine, 1913
Sean O'Casey, 1880
Anna Sewell, 1820
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853
Francisco Jose De Goya, 1749
Debuting/Premiering Today:
"Agnes of God"(Play), 1982
"Applause"(Musical), 1970
"Jeopardy"(TV), 1964
"Verkaufte Braut/The Bartered Bride"(Comic opera), 1866
Today in History:
The first recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet, BC240
Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple, 1422
Henry VIII divorces Catherine of Aragon, 1533
British and coalition forces march into Paris after the defeat of Napoleon, 1814
Dr. Crawford Long of Georgia, US, performs the first operation with anesthesia (ether), 1842
A pencil with attached eraser is patented by Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia, 1858
Alaska is purchased from Russia by US Secretary of State William Seward, for $7,200,000 (about 2 cents per acre), 1867
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic, 1932
Einstein announces his revised unified field theory, 1953
The Yonge Street Line, the first subway in Canada, opens in Toronto, 1954
President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr., 1981
The oldest copy of Codex Holmiensis, dating from 1280, is returned to Denmark from Sweden after 300 years, and 45,000 Inca artifacts are returned to Peru's Machu Picchu after spending 100 years at Yale University, 2011
North Carolina repeals its controversial bathroom law that restricted transgender use, 2017
Pope Francis arrives in Rabat, Morocco, on his first-ever visit to the Magreb region of Northern Africa, 2019
Zuzana Caputova is elected President of Slovakia, becoming the country's first female head of state, 2019
The computer world's Turing Award is given to American programmer Jack Dongarra, whose work paved the way for the current generation of supercomputers, 2022