Happy Thanksgiving Day!!
T
hanks for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather.
H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about.
That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.
- Aileen Fisher, All in a Word
H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday.
A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart.
N for neighbors, and November, nice things, new things to remember.
K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon.
S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that about.
That spells THANKS for joy in living and a jolly good Thanksgiving.
- Aileen Fisher, All in a Word
"They began now to gather in the small
harvest they had, and to fit up their houses and dwellings against winter, being
all well recovered in health and strength and had all things in good plenty.
For as some were thus employed in affairs abroad, others were exercising in
fishing, about cod and bass and other fish, of which they took good store, of
which every family had their portion. All the summer there was no want;
and now began to come in store of fowl, as winter approached, of which this
place did abound when they came first (but afterward decreased by degrees).
And besides waterfowl there was great store of wild turkeys, of which they took
many, besides venison, etc. Besides they had about a peck of meal a week
to a person, or now since harvest, Indian corn to that proportion. Which
made many afterwards write so largely of their plenty here to their friends in
England, which were not feigned but true reports.”
- William Bradford, 1621
- William Bradford, 1621
In 1863, Abraham Lincoln, declared the last
Thursday of November to be a National Day of Thanksgiving.
The first photo shows part of our family in 2012, at our home in Red Bluff, on Thanksgiving Day.
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