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Hey, Kids!  I am back from an adventure!  Grandson Curtis saw a photo I took while staying at a country bed and breakfast near Fowler.  That was during my week's painting class in June, a year ago in June, that is.  Anyway, he fell in love with the old, rusty pickup truck I had photographed, asked me to call the people and ask if they would sell it.  Long story short--today he and I and Darrel made the trip to get it.  No wheels, sitting in the dirt, no fork lift to load it, thus a very difficult and time consuming job.  But we got it home, and now it will sit here at our place for probably the next then years until Curtis gets time to go to work restoring it.  It's a 1942 Chevrolet.

I must run up to the care home for a bit, then see what else I can do toward the dinner tomorrow.

Sure nice reading all of your posts today! 

The pro football team had just finished their daily practice session when a large turkey came strutting onto the field. While the players gazed in amazement, the turkey walked up to the head coach and demanded a tryout. Everyone stared in silence as the turkey caught pass after pass and ran right through the defensive line. When the turkey returned to the sidelines, the coach shouted, "You're terrific!!! Sign up for the season, and I'll see to it that you get a huge bonus." "Forget the bonus," the turkey said, "All I want to know is, does the season go past Thanksgiving Day?"

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY to all in the States.  (except the turkey)

                                     

God Bless,

Liz

 

I know this is kind of long, but wanted Colin (and all who are interested and don't know) to have the full story behind our Thanksgiving.   

The History of Thanksgiving

SOURCE:  The Federalist, 1998



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The first day of thanks in America was celebrated in Virginia at Cape Henry in 1607, but it was the Pilgrims' three-day feast celebrated in early November of 1621, which we now popularly regard as the "First Thanksgiving." The first real Calvinist Thanksgiving to God in the Plymouth Colony was actually celebrated during the summer of 1623 when the colonists declared a Thanksgiving holiday after their crops were saved by much needed rainfall.

The Pilgrims left Plymouth, England on September 6, 1620. They sailed for a new world with the promise of both civil and religious liberty. For almost three months, 102 seafarers braved harsh elements to arrive off the coast of what is now Massachusetts, in late November of 1620. On December 11, prior to disembarking at Plymouth Rock, they signed the "Mayflower Compact," America's original document of civil government and the first to introduce self-government.The Puritan Separatists, America's Calvinist Protestants, rejected the institutional Church of England. They believed that the worship of God must originate in the inner man, and that corporate forms of worship prescribed by man interfered with the establishment of a true relationship with God. The Separatists used the term "church" to refer to the people, the Body of Christ, not to a building or institution. As their Pastor John Robinson said, "[When two or three are] gathered in the name of Christ by a covenant made to walk in all the way of God known unto them as a church."


Most of what we know about the Pilgrim Thanksgiving of 1621 comes from original accounts of the young colony's leaders, Governor William Bradford and Master Edward Winslow, in their own hand:

"They begane now to gather in ye small harvest they had, and to fitte up their houses and dwellings against winter, being well recovered in health & strenght, and had all things in good plenty; for some were thus imployed in affairs abroad, others were excersised in fishing, aboute codd, & bass, & other fish, of which yey tooke good store, of which every family had their portion. All ye somer ther was no wante. And now begane to come in store of foule, as winter aproached, of which this place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degree). And besids water foule, ther was great store of wild Turkies, of which they took many, besids venison, &c. Besids they had aboute a peck a meale a weeke to a person, or now since harvest, Indean corne to yt proportion. Which made many afterwards write so largly of their plenty hear to their freinds in England, which were not fained, but true reports."
-W.B. (William Bradford)

"Our Corne did proue well, & God be praysed, we had a good increase of Indian Corne, and our Barly indifferent good, but our Pease not worth the gathering, for we feared they were too late sowne, they came vp very well, and blossomed, but the Sunne parched them in the blossome; our harvest being gotten in, our Governour sent foure men on fowling, that so we might after a more speciall manner reioyce together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they foure in one day killed as much fowle, as with a little helpe beside, served the Company almost a weeke, at which time amongst other Recreations, we exercised our Armes, many of the Indians coming amongst vs, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoyt, with some nintie men, whom for three dayes we entertained and feasted, and they went out and killed fiue Deere, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed upon our Governour, and upon the Captaine, and others. And although it be not alwayes so plentifull, as it was at this time with vs, yet by the goodneses of God, we are so farre from want, that we often wish you partakers of our plenty."

-E.W. (Edward Winslow) Plymouth, in New England,
This 11th of December, 1621
The feast included foods suitable for a head table of honored guests, such as the chief men of the colony and Native leaders Massasoit ("Great Leader" also known as Ousamequin "Yellow Feather"), the sachem (chief) of Pokanoket (Pokanoket is the area at the head of Narragansett Bay). Venison, wild fowl, turkeys and Indian corn were the staples of the meal. It likely included other food items known to have been aboard the Mayflower or available in Plymouth such as spices, Dutch cheese, wild grapes, lobster, cod, native melons, pumpkin (pompion) and rabbit."


By the mid-17th century the custom of autumnal Thanksgivings was established throughout New England. One hundred and eighty years after the first day of Thanksgiving, the Founding Fathers thought it important that this tradition be recognized by proclamation. Soon after approving the Bill of Rights, a motion in Congress to initiate the proclamation of a national day of Thanksgiving was approved.


Mr. [Elias] Boudinot (who was the President of Congress during the American Revolution) said he could not think of letting the congressional session pass over without offering an opportunity to all the citizens of the United States of joining with one voice in returning to Almighty God their sincere thanks for the many blessings He had poured down upon them. With this view, therefore, he would propose the following resolution:

"Resolved, that a joint committee of both Houses be directed to wait upon the President of the United States to request that he would 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 signal favors of Almighty God..."

"Mr. [Roger] Sherman (a signer of both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution) justified the practice of thanksgiving on any signal event not only as a laudable one in itself, but as warranted by a number of precedents in Holy Writ...This example he thought worthy of a Christian imitation on the present occasion; and he would agree with the gentleman who moved the resolution...The question was put on the resolution and it was carried in the affirmative."
This resolution was delivered to President George Washington who readily agreed with its suggestion and put forth the following proclamation by his signature:

"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 favor; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint committee, requested 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 establish a form of government for their safety and happiness."

"Now, therefore, I do recommend and assign Thursday, the 26th day of November next, to be devoted by the people of these States to the service 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 sincere and humble thanks for His kind care and protection of the people of this country previous to their becoming a nation; for the signal and manifold mercies and the favorable interpositions of His providence in the course and conclusion of the late war; for the great degree of tranquillity, union, and plenty which we have since enjoyed; for the peaceable and rational manner in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted; for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed, and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge; and, in general, for all the great and various favors which He has been pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly offering our prayers and supplication to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually; to render our national government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a government of wise, just and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed; to protect and guide all sovereigns and nations (especially such as have shown kindness to us), and to bless them with good governments, peace, and concord; to promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and virtue, and the increase of science among them and us; and, generally, to grant unto all mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as He alone knows to be best."

-Given under my hand, at the city of New York,
The 3rd day of October, AD 1789
George Washington
After 1815, prophetically, there were no further annual proclamations of Thanksgiving until the Civil War when Abraham Lincoln declared November 26, 1863, the last Thursday in November, a Day of Thanksgiving:

"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... I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and those who are sojourning 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...[it is] announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations are blessed whose God is the Lord...It has seemed to me fit and proper that God should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people."

- Abraham Lincoln, November 26, 1863
On October 3, 1863, Lincoln's proclamation passed by an Act of Congress. That proclamation was repeated by every subsequent president until 1939, when Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving Day up one week earlier than had been tradition, to appease merchants who wanted more time to feed the growing pre-Christmas consumer frenzy. Folding to Congressional pressure two years later however, Roosevelt signed a resolution returning Thanksgiving to the last Thursday of November.


Roosevelt's inclination to manipulate Thanksgiving for commercial interests, foretold much of the secular nature of "thanksgiving" to come. But, amid all the oppression of secular materialism in advance of that day in December when we give thanks for the birth of Christ, oppression vastly different but somehow remarkably similar to that of our Pilgrim forefathers, we are still at our core, a nation eternally thankful to God.

Thank you for the true story of thanks giving.

Marilyn I sent the info you asked for.

Elizabeth was disappointed to miss youth meeting tomight, the ride did not materialize.  Well better planning will go into next weeks meeting.  We are off to bed as it has been a long day.  All the homework is done and the girls are sleeping.

We will be soon too.

Could I ask if you'd all go and welcome our newest member, Rod please?

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Thanks for the awesome song Pat, it's one of my favorites.

Happy Thanksgiving!

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This is dedicated to all my new American friends.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY!

Hi Pat....lovely song..not the one I know with the same title and which I play on the accordian...God bless.

Hi Janet...thank you very much for your lovely post. I am now fully enlightened. So nice of you to take the time and effort. Have a wonderful day...God bless.

Hi Liz....love your joke! God bless

Hi to everyone else. Hope you all have a great day whatever you are doing.

I forgot to say......I had such a terrible dream last night and I am not the better of it yet! It was about a horse. Yes folks..it was a nightMARE!    

Colin, I just LOVED your poem about Amazing Grace.  Would it be alright if I shared it with my church?  Amazing Grace is the one song that Terry my husband plays the piano on at church.  (It's the only one he is comfortable playing) 


Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate it.  Football games and overeating, what a day, what a day!!!!!

Later,
Samantha

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you that are celebrating today. 

We are leaving in a little while to have Thanksgiving with our daughter at a Country Buffet.  This is the first year, in many years when Pat hasn't cooked.  When we get back this afternoon I will watch some football.

Yesterday evening we attended the Thanksgiving service with 4 other Presbyterian and Lutheran churches.  I sang in the choir of over 30 folks and it was glorious.  What a blessing.

I have a couple of things to share today.  The first is another card for Thanksgiving by the same person as the one Pat shared.

http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=GM26534313

The second is a beautiful piece with lovely music attached:

http://wandascountryhome.com/timetogivethanks/index.html

Hope everyone has a wonderful day.

Amazing Grace has been featured here yesterday and I just came upon a lovely organ version of it and thought some of you might enjoy listening to it.  Also, if you like organ music, which I do, you will find a few other folks on this site that have shared their playing, especially a name named Eugene Hayek. 

http://www.organmusicians.com/Play.asp?id=122

What lovely posts to read here today.

I do hope that you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving.  That's an awesome card, Larry.  I love the way she makes pumpkin pie! 

Nice poem, Colin.  Lovely words in it.

I have the organ music playing in the background Larry.  I love organ music.

Thanks everyone.

It's Thursday so I must give my friend her chemo injection and then I'll be back home again.

Talk later.

Colin ~ You amaze me.  Your poetry....well, it is poetry to my ear.  I have often wondered how poets minds work.  I struggle and struggle to get things rhymn.  And your poetry seems to flow right out of you.  Love the Amazing Grace and the Stars and Stripes poems.

Janet ~ Old cars do not stay around here very long.  Too humid and they rust out too easily.  Even in a barn, they will rust. 

Pat ~ I enjoy the Thanksgiving season and all the festivities.  Don't forget to give your friend the chemo injection.

Larry ~ I love it when the choir sings at our church..not every Sunday and I love organ music.  It isn't Christmas without organ music and some songs just have to have organ music, doesn't it?

Samantha ~ I made a mistake of going on a diet last week.  So I won't be eating too much today and football isn't my sport.  It will be on the TV but us ladies will probably go to the living room and leave the men to football in the family room!

Jeanine ~ Give that little one a hug from me.  He is a precious brother of all of us.  I give my thanks to God for him.

JudyB ~ I can't imagine going 2 hours north of you.  That's in the Artic Circle, isn't it?  I can't imagine living at the Equator either though.  I guess I am a Hoosier through and through! 

Liz ~ Love your joke.  You find some funny ones, for sure.

Marilyn ~ What a neat website.  One can never have too many friends!

I called Ivalou and she has about everything ready except putting the dressing in the oven and fixing the corn on the top of the stove.  I am taking a layer salad and ice.  I have an ice maker so I take my ice to her house.  She said her daughter Teresa is coming early so I am watching for her car in Ivalou's driveway.  I enjoy all of Ivalou's family...they may not know it but I have adopted all of them! 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

Etta Sue, 2 hours north isn't really that far.  Not as it is when measured as the crow flies.  If you can get a map of Ontario, look up the town of Earlton.  It is far North for you but it is just a short drive for us "truckers".

It is another cold day, John is going to light the wood furnace, it is shiverry in here.

I know there are Home school Mom's on this site, do you have any suggestions how to get kids to meorize spelling words?  It is a struggle here in our home, and for sure no fun for them or me. Any suggestions are appreciated.

Had an email from the friend Melaura is staying with.  They are having a blast with her. It is wonderful to have Christian friends in different parts of this HUGE province of ours. as wsll as in the world.  We all will meet, if not this side of heaven then the other side.

Well I have a lot to do today so Bye for now and ay all God's blessings be yours.

Hi Etta Sue...You will never figure out this poet's mind!    Well Marlene thinks I am good poet because I rhymne about this and rhymne about that...meaning..I go on and on about things!    I am so pleased you like my poems. The gospel ones are easy to write for the words come from the heart. God bless

Hi Pat...did you go to bed at all? Glad you like the poem. Hope you are having a brill day. God bless

Hi Samantha...of course you may use the poem. So glad that you want to use it. Have a lovely day yourself and God bless.

Had to get two tyres on the car today and then I went and looked at some cameras. I am actually looking for a camera that lies so I can take a photo of myself and it will turn out handsome!    Some hope!

Going to look at these links now.
God bless

I am finally getting here today., first of all I couldn't get on line for some strange reason the isp wasn't working. then it started working and I had to change my email address and register at the new company who took over Cox Cable. You will get notification of the address change the only change is to suddenlink.net from cox.net So I have been busy going to all my creditors bank etc to change my email address. I hope you all have an ice Thanksgiving, I am going to leave in 1½ hours for Eureka.

TTYL

Hi Everyone...

Been out till now and I'm so tired I'd like to lie down but lots to do.

I've been out since 10:30 or 10:45 am and it's now 4:15!!

Hope you are all having a great Thanksgiving.  Marilyn, is it far to Eureka?


Hi Colin. 

Hi Pat...your link had a little mouse in it and Larry's had a pudding being mixed. This kind of rings a bell with me if you know what I mean.    You know what I am talking about! All the links were beautiful. Powerful!
God bless

Yes, Colin, I sure do.  HAHAHAHA

Hello all:    I have been busy doing this and that, in a few minutes I will have to leave and get the papers all read so they can go to the garbage tomorrow.  They sure do pile up by times.

I transplanted a couple of plants and again the old pots are going tomorrow as well. 

Colin:  You are sure a classic.  Love your poems

Sue:  You brought tears when you mentioned keeping your Birthday special.  Thanks

Pat:  Keep up the good work.

While all of our friends to the south are cooking their turkey I have ordered ours to have for Christmas.

Have a great evening   Ruth

I am looking at my weather icon and it says it is 4:53 when in reality it is 5:40 I don't know how to fix it.

Talk about some spoiled dogs. They sent home thanksgiving dinner for my dogs. So the dogs had a feast too.

Judy B check your email.

TTYL

A lovely, but sad poem, Colin.  I could "read" your heart in those thoughts!

How are you Janet and Etta Sue?  Its always nice to read your posts too, Larry.

Hi Judy..  I bet Norm would like to see some of Colin's poems.

Marilyn, I went to the weather site and for some strange reason, all the gizmos like what you had were the wrong time and the one I put in your sig is the right time.  When they get it fixed, we'll have to change it but what's showing now is correct I think.

So you can see them now?

Thank you for welcoming Rod (those that have).  It's nice to see lots of welcome messages from our members to our new folk.    'Twill be nice to have someone from New Zealand.

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Marilyn I sent you that info you asked for.

Pat did you check your messages on the phone?

Ruth send your papers up here we can use them for the fire!

It has been another busy day.  I have a friend going into the Highway Book Shop ini Cobalt to see if they have a set of science books I need.  If they do I am set with most of next years cirriculum.  Elizabeth has been fast tracking with her math, and has done quite well.  Today I noticed a consistent stumble with fractions , so she is going back to the text to learn what she missed then she will go ahead again.  Her aim is to start the next grade in math with the new semester in February.  I didn't think she would have the drive to actually do it but I have been pleasantly surprised.  Looks like she will be up to grade/age level by the time she reaches grade nine.  

One of our pups are in their first season.  We are waiting for the second season to breed them.  As a result the neighborhood dogs are coming around.  We will have to keep a close eye on them next week.  Marilyn how are your house pets?  Etta Sue ready for another cat?  We have 4 to go and to go soon.  

well time to turn in.  Pleasant dreams everyone
Judy