Kevin's Watch

Today I am thankful for my husband, son, and daughter; for my work, for the delightful weather, for good friends, mostly good health; for my favorite songs, a good laugh, the Watch, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

Happy Thanksgiving!!

The Pilgrims made seven times more graves than huts. No Americans have been more impoverished than these who, nevertheless, set aside a day of thanksgiving. ~H.U. Westermayer

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! ~Henry Ward Beecher

Back atcha, dotd, and to everyone else celebrating!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Xar got here a little before 8:00 last night. He did the drive in very good time.

Been doing some cooking this morning. We'll head to my MIL's in a few hours. I'll have pictures, chronicling Xar's first Thanksgiving. Hard to imagine someone who never had pumpkin pie!

May the blessing of light be on you - light without and light within.
May the blessed sunlight shine on you like a great peat fire,
so that stranger and friend may come and warm himself at it.
And may light shine out of the two eyes of you,
like a candle set in the window of a house,
bidding the wanderer come in out of the storm.

And may the blessing of the rain be on you,
may it beat upon your Spirit and wash it fair and clean,
and leave there a shining pool where the blue of Heaven shines,
and sometimes a star.

And may the blessing of the earth be on you,
soft under your feet as you pass along the roads,
soft under you as you lie out on it, tired at the end of day;
and may it rest easy over you when, at last, you lie out under it.
May it rest so lightly over you that your soul may be out from under it quickly; up and off and on its way to G-d.

And now may the L-rd bless you, and bless you kindly. Amen.
~Traditional Scot blessing.

May you all be blessed with things to be grateful for this joyous day.

Happy Thanksgiving, one and all. Even if you live in another country and don't care.

In the year 1621, the Pilgrims held their first Thanksgiving feast. They invited the great Indian chief Massasoit, who brought ninety of his brave Indians and a great abundance of food. Governor William Bradford and Captain Miles Standish were honored guests. Elder William Brewster, who was a minister, said a prayer that went something like this: 'We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice."

wayfriend wrote:Happy Thanksgiving, one and all. Even if you live in another country and don't care.

hihi thank you! I hope you have a great time. It looks like a fun holiday based on a nice meal. We want some food pics so we can eat vicariously through you.

I'm having friends over tonight to celebrate Thanksgiving as well. Don't ask Have a good one, all of you

i'm thankful for a place online that is filled with good people, lacking in trolls, and is willing to have me for a member.

Love you guys!

balon! wrote:i'm thankful for a place online that is filled with good people, lacking in trolls, and is willing to have me for a member.

Love you guys!

Well said, and seconded.

Xar's first Thanksgiving went pretty well. Unfortunately, I didn't make the corn pudding. Dinner was earlier than expected, so I didn't have time to make it. Ah well. Still, he enjoyed the food. He liked pumpkin pie. However, I also made pecan pie, with golden syrup instead of karo, and that was so freaky good the pumpkin pie was not as important. So here's some pix.

Chatting with Christy's mom on the porch:



Eating turkey:



Me asking him about this turn's processing:



His response:


All in all, a great Thanksgiving!!

bwha-ha-ha!

I knew Pantheon had to come up sooner or later.
Poor AllFather.

...at least he made it through the night last night without losing it.

Apparently, Fist
Lacked faith, so Xar decided
To provide more fist

Happy Turkey Day!

Happy thanksgiving to those who live there and care.

Hope you all enjoyed yourselves. (No wonder we were so quiet over the last 24.)

--A

Looked to me like Fist was enjoying being slugged by the AllFather... Glad you guys had a great day!

HAH! that was great fun loggin on here and seein those pics!!

ditto me on balon's sentiment.

Happy Thanksgiving!



what Charlie Brown and friends made that Thanksgiving...

Oy, Sarge. My blood glucose numbers spiked just looking at that photo. Pretty sure I am not the only one, either!

Welcome back, BTW!

Excellent picture, sarge! Is that your own?

I'm thankful for my hubby, my kiddoes, and math tutoring work.
I'm thankful for indoor heating and for our little car, that gets us where we're goin', and that we even got to our extended family at all this year. (hit a deer carcass otw. it was hard as a rock. minimal damage, though.)
I'm thankful for my church in spite of all its imperfections, the youth of our church, intelligent and hilarious.

I'm thankful for my hubby's extended family - people with whom I automatically feel like I'm "at home" with, and whom we can safely talk like nerds around, and who even gently train me to be a little more socially-competent with wit and wisdom.

We went down to my hubby's mother's side of the family - she has 5 siblings and their families are pretty much amaaazing. Never had those kinds of family get-togethers growing up, but I'm lovin' it now.

Oh, btw, enjoyin' your poetry DPJ. That one was perfect!