Thanksgiving Is A Special Time
Real abundance is found when we join hands with those we love.
An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day.
Thanksgiving 2005
Since
1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the
United States. So here we are in 2005 to do it again!
Most of the fun is getting ready for the big day. Sure, it is a load of work when you consider shopping, prepapratios, cooking and planning but it is fun and enjoyable to watch everyone partake of the festivities.
A collective prayer of thanksgiving was led by Captain John Woodlief in the Virginia Colony on December 4, 1619 near the current site of Berkeley Plantation, where celebrations are still held each year in November. Woodleif addressed the 38 men with: "Wee ordaine that the day of our ships arrivall at the place assigned for plantacon in the land of Virginia shall be yearly and perpetually keept holy as a day of Thanksgiving to Almighty God."
Getting Ready For The Celebration
Grandama loves to cooks so off we
go!
This year we are having the standard turkey but we are adding stuffed squash, homemade apple sauce, fresh cranberry sauce, twice baked yams, and other little surprises!
Thanksgiving is a four day weekend which usually marks a pause in school and college calendars.
Thanksgiving meals are family events where certain kinds of food are served.
First and foremost, turkey is the featured item in most Thanksgiving feasts (so much so that Thanksgiving is sometimes called "Turkey Day").
Stuffing, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, corn, turnips, yams and pumpkin pie are commonly associated with Thanksgiving dinner.
A Little Thanksgiving Day Humor
How
do you keep a turkey in suspense?
I'll tell you at Christmas.
Why did the turkey cross the road?
It was the chicken's day off.
What did the mother turkey say to her disobedient children?
If your father could see you now, he'd turn over in his
gravy!
What key has legs and can't open doors?
Tur-key.
What sound does a space turkey make?
Hubble, hubble, hubble.
Why do turkeys always go "gobble, gobble"?
Because they never learned good table manners!
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