I am thankful to be celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary.

Oops. I fell a bit behind again.
16 – I am thankful for power tools that make the Christmas projects I am working on much much faster and easier.
17 – I am thankful for the little adrenaline rush I get when I know an answer that Jeopardy! contestants don’t.
18 – I am very appreciative of excellent customer service in an era when it is becoming more rare.Thanks to Tranquileyes, myeyesupply.com and dryeyeshop.com – all scleral lens related – as well as Mad Housewife Wine and Authentic Knitting Board for taking good care of me over the past few months.

Hartman’s Irish Cream, lovingly concocted by the only non-Irish-blooded person in the house. Thank you people who figure things out and post them on the Internet.

375ml Irish whiskey (half a bottle; somewhere between 1½ and 1⅔ cups)

Grateful for our fire department (and the new station that serves our house) and police department, with special thanks for sponsoring Joseph’s explorer post. Thanks also to all of our fellow taxpayers for helping to foot the bill.

As a rule of thumb I try not to use the same thankfulness posts from year to year, but Veteran’s Day is an exception. Thank you to all U.S. military personnel, past, present and future.

I am thankful for today’s warm weather. Really wish it could stick around for a little longer though.

Today’s GoogleDoodle video about the falling of the Berlin Wall made me aware of gratitude for efforts toward peace. One site that I was sorry not to see in the overview of wall memorials is Fulton, Missouri.

Winston Churchill made his famous “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College. Following the fall of the Berlin Wall, Churchill’s granddaughter Edwina Sandys designed a sculpture titled “Breakthrough” using eight sections of the wall gifted to Westminster by German authorities.