Happy turkey day!

[Snakebite]

What are your plans? I'll bet most people are meeting family and stuffing themselves until they have to unbutton their pants. Thats some good times.

I'm doing something really different this year. No turkey or ham. I'm going camping tomorrow morning for the long weekend. The "turkey" is going to be a pit cooked javelina as the main meal.

The truck is loaded with gear, the new quad is on the trailer, lots of mesquite wood.....cant wait till the morning.

Have a great day with family and friends!

[Father Time]

Happy Thanksgiving Snakebite.

With a plan like that, I don't see how you can go wrong. We don't get much javalina in these parts. Would that come out like pig roast?

I won't be sitting by a campfire unless the 40+ mph blizzard going on outside blows down all the electric wires.

[Outriderdark]

Snakebite...you are having my dream Thanksgiving
FatherTime...you're somewhere in Michigan with those coordinates, right? You guys are getting clobbered.

[Father Time]

Yep, SW Lower

I hear that the worst is to come.

[silentknight]

Another non turkey thanksgiving for me too, I have smoked pork loin waiting for me tomorrow. Everybody have a good holiday!

[Apollyon67]

just gonna relax and be thankful I can for at least one day, then its back to the grind. I am thankful I have a job I like. I hope everyone has something to be thankful about. You all take care!

[Dallas]

Turkey and all the trimmings. I've got the kids this year. By the way it's litely snowing right now. Hurrah.

[troy2000]

Originally Posted by Snakebite

What are your plans? I'll bet most people are meeting family and stuffing themselves until they have to unbutton their pants. Thats some good times.

I'm doing something really different this year. No turkey or ham. I'm going camping tomorrow morning for the long weekend. The "turkey" is going to be a pit cooked javelina as the main meal.

The truck is loaded with gear, the new quad is on the trailer, lots of mesquite wood.....cant wait till the morning.

Have a great day with family and friends!

Do you already have the javelina, or is collecting one part of the plan?

My mother-in-law is celebrating being in her new house by doing turkey dinner this year. My wife and the boys are headed over to spend the night so the wife can help.

I, on the other hand, am going to veg the evening away and mosey over tomorrow. I spent the morning showing a couple of young pups how much dirt you can remove next to a pipeline, if you pull the shovel out of your arse and stick it in the ground instead. I shouldn't even have been in the hole, but I caught a contractor who had damaged a 30" gas line and tried to bury the evidence. When the track-hoe operator started digging the dirt out around the line, the young'uns he had for laborers didn't understand how to crumble off that last foot in a hurry, and I got impatient. And since if you added their two ages together the total would come up to probably fifteen years less than my age, I'm already paying the price. I need to start working out again...

Happy turkey day, everyone. Or Javelina day, or whatever.

[CleanCut]

I'm down in St. Augustine at my mom's. First time in 17 years I've not hosted the meal. My brother came in tonight and it is like a really relaxed family reunion. Just how it should be!

[NRAJOE]

General Thanksgiving

By the PRESIDENT of the United States Of America
A PROCLAMATION


WHEREAS it is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houfes of Congress have, by their joint committee, requefted me "to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLIC THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to eftablifh a form of government for their safety and happiness:"

NOW THEREFORE, I do recommend and affign THURSDAY, the TWENTY-SIXTH DAY of NOVEMBER next, to be devoted by the people of thefe States to the fervice of that great and glorious Being who is the beneficent author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be; that we may then all unite in rendering unto Him our fincere and humble thanksfor His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the fignal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpofitions of His providence in the courfe and conclufion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquility, union, and plenty which we have fince enjoyed;-- for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enable to eftablish Conftitutions of government for our fafety and happinefs, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-- for the civil and religious liberty with which we are bleffed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffufing useful knowledge;-- and, in general, for all the great and various favours which He has been pleafed to confer upon us.

And also, that we may then unite in moft humbly offering our prayers and fupplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations and befeech Him to pardon our national and other tranfgreffions;-- to enable us all, whether in publick or private ftations, to perform our feveral and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our National Government a bleffing to all the people by conftantly being a Government of wife, juft, and conftitutional laws, difcreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all fovereigns and nations (especially fuch as have shewn kindnefs unto us); and to blefs them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increafe of fcience among them and us; and, generally to grant unto all mankind fuch a degree of temporal profperity as he alone knows to be beft.

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington

[ducktapehero]

The family(wife and 8mon old son) and I went to my Moms house. Just ate and watched football. We got back about an hour ago. We're gonna get up kinda early tomorrow and maybe do a little car shopping. If I can find a different car with roughly the same payments I may get it. I'm not overly happy with my Ford Focus Station Wagon. It's been an OK car but a little underwhelming.

Originally Posted by NRAJOE

GIVEN under my hand, at the city of New-York, the third day of October, in the year of our Lord, one thousand feven hundred and eighty-nine.

(signed) G. Washington

1676 Thanksgiving Proclamation



"The Holy God having by a long and Continual Series of his Afflictive dispensations in and by the present Warr with the Heathen Natives of this land, written and brought to pass bitter things against his own Covenant people in this wilderness, yet so that we evidently discern that in the midst of his judgements he hath remembered mercy, having remembered his Footstool in the day of his sore displeasure against us for our sins, with many singular Intimations of his Fatherly Compassion, and regard; reserving many of our Towns from Desolation Threatened, and attempted by the Enemy, and giving us especially of late with many of our Confederates many signal Advantages against them, without such Disadvantage to ourselves as formerly we have been sensible of, if it be the Lord's mercy that we are not consumed, It certainly bespeaks our positive Thankfulness, when our Enemies are in any measure disappointed or destroyed; and fearing the Lord should take notice under so many Intimations of his returning mercy, we should be found an Insensible people, as not standing before Him with Thanksgiving, as well as lading him with our Complaints in the time of pressing Afflictions:
The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being persuaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and souls as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."

[ALR]

I rekon those that want to take GOD out of everything wouldn't want to celebrate it in any shape or form. Even if they change the name of the holiday the root reason is still there wheather the admit it or not. Thank God for our inailenable right to pack iron!!!