Happy Turkey Day All!!!!!!!

[Durango53]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!!!!!!!

:usa: :usa: :usa: :usa:

God Bless you all on this great day!!!!!

[Durango53]

Oh ya what is everyone doing!?!?!?

[PissedPrincess]

I'm off to Florida in 18 hours. :smokin:

[TXRangers]

Have fun PP. I am at my inlaws tomorrow in East Texas. Driving tonight. Have a great day everybody, and watch the Cowgirls get thier butts whupped!!!

Tex

[CitySkyline]

Happy Thanksgiving, all!

Here's a little cartoon I drew 10 years ago (wow, has it been that long?!) on my computer... shows you how the poor turkeys feel about tomorrow... :tongue:

http://img87.exs.cx/img87/4946/Turkey.gif

[PopTop]

Safe travels, Princess, and everyone else moving about these holidays.

I'm just about finished with my first drink of the cocktail hour and I'm in the "I love everyone" stage of alcohol consumption. Yeah, I know, cheap date. I once had a problem with the hooch, not a big one, but a problem nonetheless. So I sort of started to limit myself to no less than two and no more than three drinks per day.*

* Offer not valid on vacation or other special events as so determined by the proprietor. Still limited to being able to ambulate under one's own foot power without drawing attention of the local law enforcement. Employees of Clear Channel and their rotten, stinkin' families ineligible. Pennsylvania residents add 8.25% sales tax.

And that has made me into a rather cheap date, so to speak. But I've always had these stages to my drinking where I'm pretty normal, then get wild ideas, next I'm bulletproof, then I start to sway followed by a stumble, down I go, and I never can clearly recall the stages after that. The wild ideas part usually comes after about 4 beers, sometimes into my 4th one. Like the time one of my buddies and I took a cab from Tijuana to Ensenada because we had this crazy idea about halfway into our 4th cerveza. Of course, that's a story for another time.

Right now is Thanksgiving, and it's a Thanksgiving story I wanted to tell. When I was a kid we would go out to my grandfather's ranch about 40 miles northwest of Uvalde, Texas, just about every Thanksgiving. Sometimes we would drive through College Station or Austin and meet my grandparents at the Texas A&M-Univ. of Texas football game, tailgate after the game and then drive from either locale back to the ranch where it was always colder than a witch's teat and way out in the middle of nowhere for a bunch of city kids like my sisters and I. On those Thanksgiving's when we went to the football game, we would have our turkey dinner on Friday at the ranch. And even when we didn't go to the game, we would still have our turkey dinner on Friday. For a while we didn't go to the ranch and had our big feast on the more traditional Thursday. But then I got married and, lo and behold!, my in-laws celebrate their dinner on Friday, though it's for different reasons than the damn football game that is now played on Friday.

The reason we used to have the turkey on Friday was because my abuelito was a school teacher/coach/principal in addition to running a ranch of about 6 sections at one point (about 3,500 acres) ... small by a lot of Texas ranch standards, mind you, but still a lot of work. He and my grandma lived in Uvalde during the week and worked at the schools --- she was the librarian at SW Texas Jr. College --- then literally truck up to the ranch and work themselves to death on the weekends. They did this for at least 37 years as far as I can determine from stories I've pieced together from my mom and uncle. Educating youth during the week and raising herefords and sheering sheep on the weekends.

Because of his schedule, my grandpa often didn't have time to go turkey hunting until Thanksgiving day on those holidays we didn't go to the game first. Understand that he got his master's degree in mathematics from UT while my pop and I were always Texas A&M men. So Thanksgiving would be contentious often, and it was one-sided for a long time as the Longhorns dominated my beloved Aggies on the gridiron.

But getting a chance to go hunting with my abuelito and spend time with him on the ranch was and still is why Thanksgiving is my favorite of the holidays, even if I really don't celebrate it on Thursday. He was my source for a lot of real education --- My primary instructor in Biblical history, the one person who finally got through to me on geometry, showed me how to move cattle and the scene from City Slickers where they assist a troubled birth really hits home for an experience I shared with the man, taught me to saddle horses and ride them, told me stories about going to college with LBJ, more stories about growing up in the early 20th century, still more stories about raising a family during the 30s and sending children off to fight one war after another, dazzled me with facts about the stars and the moon and wind and the sun, and he was there to help get me through my first real lesson in life and death.

My advice to everyone is, if you can, pick the seat next to one of your grandparents this Thanksgiving Dinner. :)

[rockin500]

I'm adrinkin, eatin, and watching some football. :)

[Toy Cannon]

Going up to Georgetown to my sisters, just a stones throw away. Tammy is in the kitchen right now busily baking pies :drool: Pumpkin, apple, coconut cream, chocolate, pecan and lemon meringue:thumbsup:

[Chisox73]

Have a nice time in Florida Jacqui. :wavey: Think of us here in the Chicago area as the snow continues to fall here. :angry:

Hope everyone here has a great Thanksgiving! :turkey:
I'll be watching the Bears and Cowboys stink up Thanksgiving dinner.(12-7 Bears win it.)

[rockin500]

how much snow do you have down there? We only have about an inch up here in kenosha. I'm glad i got outta the city when i did (at 1:30pm) so i only had to deal with the heavy snow showers (before it started accumulating)

[Chisox73]

We had an inch down here.The wet,slushy grabber inducing snow.It has stopped within the last few minutes here.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

no snow here but rain and hail all day long.. and it is COLD!

[Baseball Guru]

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone and God Bless everyone and their families:angel2:

I hope everyone has a fantastic dinner and fun doing whatever you do with your loved ones:)

:turkey: :turkey:

[rockin500]

yup, we have that slushy nasty snow here too.

[Rockin Robin]

Gobble Gobble


A happy and healthy, everyone!


I'm going to a friend's for dinner, then another friend's for dessert. Friday (I had requested off, never got an answer, then was called into a meeting this morning....alll back office operations are off!! Woo-hoo!!!!) I'll be meeting up with a friend who's in the same business, so we both work a gazillion hours and could never get together. Saturday I'm meeting up with Jodi, and possibly going to my cousin's, then Sunday I'm going into The City to meet one of my oldest friends who also is in town for the holiday.

After working til 9, 10 o'clock for the past week, I just wanna sleep for the four days, but noooooo, I have to play social butterfly........

[Obri]

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!:beer:

With all the American students living in Aberdeen last year, I was fortunate enough to celebrate Thanksgiving for the first time, and I intend to raise a glass to all you guys again tonight. Have a great day wherever you are. :thumbsup:

Best wishes from across the pond. :wave1:

[Nanner]

Willie....... good advice about sitting next to a grandparent today! :thumbsup: I would do that, except I think most of us today will actually be the older and wiser ones at our table. :D

I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's not based in any one religion, there's no gift-giving, everyone across the country celebrates it, people really do reflect on what they're thankful for. It's a great day!

Have a good one, everyone!

[Obri]

I think Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday. It's not based in any one religion, there's no gift-giving, everyone across the country celebrates it, people really do reflect on what they're thankful for. It's a great day!

It's a great reason to just sit around with your nearest and dearest and get completely cabbaged. I can't believe that a Scotsman didn't invent it.

[awefullspellare]

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!!!

I gotta work 1-10 :D

[I Are Baboon]

GOBBLES!!!!

http://images.southparkstudios.com/media/timmy_gobbles.zip.gif

Happy Bird-Type Poultry Day, everyone! I've got two full meals to attend....one at mom's and one at the in-law's. UGH.

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends! Hope you all have a great day with your family and friends!

[Panzram]

My mom and step-dad left for Vegas this morning and I'm going to Doug's today for dinner. But I won't be eating the usual "traditional" filth.

[Liter22]

WOOHOO CANT WAIT TOO FEED MY FAT FACE!!!

[Chisox73]

Mmmmmmmmm...Turkey with White Castle stuffing :drool:

COMMENCE EATING!!!!!!

Oh,and Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends here :) :turkey:

[Blue56]

Happy thanksgiving to all of you :D
Mine was in october.

[Timberwolf]

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.

As far as what I did today, I spent time playing with my younger cousins and nieces. I also watched some football, portion of Everybody Loves Raymond, and then the Timberwolves/Pacers game on TNT.

I had a good day today.