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Happy day-before-Thanksgiving to you! — 16 Comments

  1. We never have turkey because it isn’t that tasty. We go with leg of lamb or a rack of ribs, or sometimes a couple of roasted chickens. Oldest son and his brood should arrive in a couple of hours. The teenagers will not be allowed to use their cell phones before 10PM.

    If any of you are traveling I wish you a safe trip. Happy Thanksgiving and remember you have at least one thing to be thankful for in your life. Top of my list is family.

  2. I love Thanksgiving! All Americans can celebrate, being thankful for family and friends, and for (as my immigrant father-in-law said) being here instead of somewhere else. I don’t care if people eat turkey, lamb, tofu, or pad Thai. Happy Thanksgiving!

  3. With all my best wishes for safe travel and a wonderful, meaningful holiday to Neo and all of the commenters here.

  4. And a very happy Thanksgiving to one and all. 😀

    Neo: Thanks muchly to you for the year’s postings and discussions.

    And please eat an extra piece of pecan pie for me. :>)))

  5. Happy Thanksgiving to all!

    I’ve slowed down on cooking big meals and go for trying a few new things. So, I’m trying a allergy-free Thanksgiving dressing – basically a bunch of roasted veggies but with the traditional spices and herbs. I’ll match that with a meat of my choice – I have options pork tenderloin, beef or chicken. Then, for the Saturday football games, I’m going with the InstaPundit Guinness lamb stew. And, I’ll make the Pioneer Woman’s Burgundy mushrooms which take a bit of time to cook but are so wonderful with steak, or on a baked potato, or alone….

    But, I saw a great breakfast option – cook bacon strips and then make oblong pancakes,put a strip of bacon in the batter, cover with more batter and flip and finish.

    Long walks will be in the schedule! Have a happy day everyone!

  6. I love Thanksgiving and it was always one of my favorite meals to prepare. Alas 10 years ago when our daughter married a man whose mother is a renowned chef (and his cooking is sublime) we ceased hosting the holiday and manage to spend it in one way or another with our married children and their in-laws which brings us to San Francisco, Carmel and Huntington Beach so no complaints. I’m thankful for all the years we did host but now fully enjoy the various venues/company/banquets. We were married in the Catholic church on Thanksgiving Day 1982 and as recommended by the priest celebrate our anniversary on the holiday in remembrance of the sacrament and being thankful for each other. Wishing everyone in this community a blessed Thanksgiving 2019.

  7. I grouse a lot, but really there’s no better time or place to be alive. My kids are doing well, my grandkids are doing great, and I’m lucky to be married to a woman who tolerates me well enough. What else is there?

  8. Thanksgiving was important when I was a kid, county seat town of 5,000 and we alway had an ecumenical Wednesday night service with lot of the churches participating, taking turns with the larger churches being the hosts, we had lots of churches. In the mid 1950’s the black churches and their preacher would be included and it was a bit of a shock to hear all of the ‘amens’ called out loud and with feeling as various preacher took their turns with the sermon, including the black ministers. The South was shedding the segregation past and we were all celebrating Thanksgiving and worshiping together.

    That was a special time as our schools brought all of the kids together and required respect from students and teachers working with each other. I learned much later that my dad who was the superintendent before WWII had to also take care of the black school and he worked hard to get the first girls basketball team equipped and set up with transportation to play against other black teams, all the while it took about five more years well after he had been called up in the war for the white girls to have their own basketball teams.

    That’s the thing I remember about Thanksgiving when a town would come together and worship and give thanks, Later even the Catholics would become a part of the services.

  9. Thankful to be an American. Thankful to have a wonderful wife and daughter. Thankful to be able to read and enjoy Neo and all her commenters. Thankful that we still have shared American traditions like Thanksgiving. Yes, I’m thankful and love Thanksgiving. Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  10. God bless you one and all on this Thanksgiving Day.
    We’ll eat well & be very thankful…got a leg of lamb going strong and some various veggies alongside…homemade bread and a lovely red wine. Magnificent wife & 2 of the 3 girls…so…I’m more blessed than I know how to handle.

    Y’all get a good sleep & enjoy yourselves tomorrow.
    I miss the old Texas A & M vs Texas games…era long gone.

  11. All of you are why I’m proud to be an American. When I’d arrive after spending years abroad because somebody sent me away not because I was in danger.

    I served my country.

    I realize this may not make sense immediately.

    But at least I a have always been proud, unlike Michelle Obama, to be an American, It’s why my ancestors to fight heave and Earth to get it.

    Finally, as a LCDR, I, the Italian immigrant, have something worth fighting for.

    Sincerely, thank you. America.

  12. Abraham Lincoln, January 27, 1838: The Perpetuation of Our Political Institutions:
    Address Before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois

    In the great journal of things happening under the sun, we, the American People, find our account running, under date of the nineteenth century of the Christian era.–We find ourselves in the peaceful possession, of the fairest portion of the earth, as regards extent of territory, fertility of soil, and salubrity of climate. We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us. We, when mounting the stage of existence, found ourselves the legal inheritors of these fundamental blessings. We toiled not in the acquirement or establishment of them–they are a legacy bequeathed us, by a once hardy, brave, and patriotic, but now lamented and departed race of ancestors. Their’s was the task (and nobly they performed it) to possess themselves, and through themselves, us, of this goodly land; and to uprear upon its hills and its valleys, a political edifice of liberty and equal rights; ’tis ours only, to transmit these, the former, unprofaned by the foot of an invader; the latter, undecayed by the lapse of time and untorn by usurpation, to the latest generation that fate shall permit the world to know. This task of gratitude to our fathers, justice to ourselves, duty to posterity, and love for our species in general, all imperatively require us faithfully to perform.

    I urge you read the whole.

    This from a 28 year old Abe Lincoln, who would 25 years later as President take action to help institute nationally the holiday we celebrate today.

    Happy Thanksgiving to all.

  13. Holy cow, I’ve never seen a stuffing recipe like that. I’m sure it’s good, though. Stuffing always is. Dressing, can be dry.

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