mcquinn Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Let the festivities begin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 I'm ready to eat! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsune Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Happy, Happy Thanksgiving !!! I am especially thankful for all the amazing folks at VT and all the incredible members. Happy vaping to all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation Washington, DC—October 3, 1863 The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity, and union. In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this 3d day of October, A.D. 1863, and of the Independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. Abraham Lincoln Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper Ron Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Happy Thanksgiving everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeffb Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 (edited) Top Ten Signs You Had A Bad Thanksgiving 10."You ran out of booze by 11 a.m." 9."Most frequently used word at dinner: Heimlich" 8."Meal was leftovers from last Thanksgiving" 7."Thanks to new electric knife, kids fought over wishbone and your severed thumb" 6."The 'turkey' was wearing a dog collar" 5."Spent day in Times Square waiting for the giant turkey to drop" 4."Woke up from tryptophan-induced sleep to find yourself naked in the driveway" 3."When dinner came out, so did your son" 2."Laura and the twins lock you out" 1."Your turkey dinner was the only breast you've touched all year" Edited November 24, 2011 by jeffb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdDog Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted November 24, 2011 Share Posted November 24, 2011 Happy thanksgiving everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uma Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Happy Thanksgiving!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsune Posted November 26, 2011 Share Posted November 26, 2011 One advantage to working all of thanksgiving....is being able to reschedule. we are having the big dinner tomorrow...No crowds at the store, and if I forgot something all the stores will be open. plus good sale prices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcquinn Posted November 27, 2011 Author Share Posted November 27, 2011 I used to work a lot of Holidays ,you just adjust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitsune Posted November 27, 2011 Share Posted November 27, 2011 I come from a family of nurses....we are pretty good at moving holidays and events to suit our needs....our friends have learned to adjust too (since I am the one cooking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merlin Posted November 29, 2011 Share Posted November 29, 2011 Happy Belated Thanksgiving all :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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