Happy Thanksgiving all

[desertbluesman]

Y'all have a great day, & try not to pig out too awful much.

 

Stay safe out on the roads.

 

Happy Thanksgiving

[Dannyalcatraz]

Happy Turkeycaust!

[Larryz]

Happy Thanksgiving to all! Hope everyone has a great time tomorrow with friends and family! Stay Safe!

[skipclone 1]

Every year.

Every year I get the date wrong. This is what I get for living in a place that doesn`t celebrate Thanksgiving. This year I even made dinner a week early. There weren`t any Americans around to tell me otherwise.

Well I guess I`ll have to make some quick version of something-I couldn`t find turkey last week either so it won`t matter.

[Caevan O'Shite]

Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone- especially you, Skip.

[Larryz]

In the US Skip it's always on the 4th Thursday in November...In Canada it's on the 2nd Monday of October. So you're still in the zone LOL! Have a good one!

[J. Dan]

The thing I'm thankful for: snow and the holiday seems to have put the cabash on the riots. Of course there is apparently a lot planned for Black Friday. I'm staying hone and meeting with someone for a potential duo as a side project - could be pretty cool! Will also be nice to have the TV off and not have to watch my town burning to the ground for a few hours.

[skipclone 1]

In the US Skip it's always on the 4th Thursday in November...In Canada it's on the 2nd Monday of October. So you're still in the zone LOL! Have a good one!

 

Thanks indeed-I have no idea where I keep getting the idea that it`s the third Thursday. In fact the building manager is American, I wished him Happy Thanksgiving a week ago and he didn`t correct me.

maybe I`m getting it mixed up with Beaujolais Day.

Anyway I made some Poulet Yassa-Senegalese lemon chicken, with a decent wine. Not bad for short notice.

[skipclone 1]

Thanks! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone- especially you, Skip.

 

Turkey props back to ya Caev.

I`ll be back for the holidays, maybe we can do another phone chat.

[Fred_C]

Happy holiday, all.

[Bluesape]

Yup, just another workday here in the frigid north....

 

[whitefang]

My Thanksgivings are usually all alike. This year though, due to dietary restrictions, it'll be slim pickin's at the table. Oh, I can EAT all the same stuff as always, just NOT so MUCH.(DAMNED "mini stroke"!)

 

But I did manage to get enough to eat. But Thanksgivings don't seem to be the SAME anymore.

 

On Thanksgiving morning, there was usually the viewing of, "The J.L.Hudson's Thanksgiving Day Parade". Hosted and sponsored by the then Detroit area's largest department store chain. The "Macy's" of Detroit!( ironically enough, the chain long ago went belly up and had since been "snatched up" by Macy's. Many of the old Hudson's locations are now MACY'S stores!)

 

And after the parade there were usually some Christmas movie offerings. For example---

 

It was after the parade one year long ago that I saw "Miracle on 34th Street" for the first time. A year after that, and AFTER what became an annual showing of that movie on the local channel, I saw "It's A Wonderful Life" for the first time. That was perhaps, 1965 for one, and '66 for the other. I do remember they also always used to show a foreign film short called "The Red Balloon" every Thanksgiving, too. and after the parade in '67, I first saw the Alistair Sim version of "A Christmas Carol", which is THE version, as far as I, and MANY others are concerned.

 

But, THIS year, after the parade, NOW sponsored by ART VAN furniture chain and called "America's Thanksgiving day parade", and for many years now, they QUIT showing Christmas movies during the day after the parade, and gave us instead, a flurry of "Black Friday" TV ads, and there was also an "infomercial" about some doctor somewhere who does "club foot" surgery! Puts WHO in the "holiday mood", I have NO idea!

 

Lucky for me, I have all those films on tape and DVD, so I made an "old fashioned" Thanksgiving day my OWN damned self!

 

Hope all of YOURS went without any trouble.

 

On a sad note, last night, just about a half hour before we left my wife's sister's houe, where dinner was held, we learned her husband's( my brother in law) Grandmother died an hour earlier. She lived in another part of the state,and WAS 94 years old and recently suffered some heath crisis, so he wasn't surprised, but it's a sad thing anyway.

Whitefang

[desertbluesman]

Holidays for me are not the same as they were when I was young. All they mean to me is a decent meal early in the day these days

 

Once I found out I was Santa Clause, the Christmas spirit got a little tarnished in my mind..... http://www.kolobok.us/smiles/artists/just_cuz/JC-hysterical.gif

[Larryz]

@ J. Dan: Stay inside, be safe and enjoy the duo project...We hope the winter keeps everything wet so the fires do not spread and the riots slow down...

 

@ Fang: Your post just reminded me to watch a movie today! It's a tradition at my house to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles every Thanksgiving with Steve Martin and John Candy just trying to get home for dinner LOL!

 

I was a bit stuffed last night and got to play some slide guitar with my brother and play with the grandkids...it was a great day and the weather here was perfectomundo!