Thanksgiving
Posted: Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:23 am
As part of the staff of this fine site I would like to wish everybody (Americans that is) a Happy Thanksgiving this Thursday.
For those of you heading out of town, have a good turkey day but only if your in the USA, Canada has thanksgiving too but its not this week, other countries have other days of celebration that we don't have, and sometimes we celebrate things by area, like Columbus Day in Chicago, I remember several years ago working there in the burbs and went into Chicago and got into this traffic jam, I asked a cop what was going on, he looked at me like I was some kind of dumb ass and said "Columbus Day?" like I should know that. In California we celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the 5th of May, Mexico independence day. California is half Mexican so we party. I know other parts of the country have celebrations that are unique to there area of the country. In England I know they have one called Boxing Day, I have yet to figure out what its for. Oh yes and don't forget the 4th of July or Labor Day, Memorial Day, Presidents Day, Veterans Day, Martin Luther King day, these are all holidays that we in the USA celebrate to one degree or another.
Some of these holidays hold more meaning then others, so only to some groups of people, the one that seems almost a waist of time anymore is Veterans Day, Nov 11, marking the end of WWI the war to end all wars. My father was in WWI, he has been gone over 25 years, I am sure there are some that are still alive that were in that war maybe a hand full but at some time maybe it should be time to retire it and move on. If we don't we wont have room for new days to celebrate, look at the Catholics, they celebrate every saint they have, all 500 of them, its a wonder they get anything done.
So, this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day I am having a couple friends over, they are members here at the archive and my son his wife and my grandson, I am cooking, the menu is set, a couple last minute things to pick up and then we can eat tell we cant move, then have pies, this year a pumpkin and black berry.
Happy Thanksgiving all,
River, Rupert and Nelly
For those of you heading out of town, have a good turkey day but only if your in the USA, Canada has thanksgiving too but its not this week, other countries have other days of celebration that we don't have, and sometimes we celebrate things by area, like Columbus Day in Chicago, I remember several years ago working there in the burbs and went into Chicago and got into this traffic jam, I asked a cop what was going on, he looked at me like I was some kind of dumb ass and said "Columbus Day?" like I should know that. In California we celebrate Cinco de Mayo, the 5th of May, Mexico independence day. California is half Mexican so we party. I know other parts of the country have celebrations that are unique to there area of the country. In England I know they have one called Boxing Day, I have yet to figure out what its for. Oh yes and don't forget the 4th of July or Labor Day, Memorial Day, Presidents Day, Veterans Day, Martin Luther King day, these are all holidays that we in the USA celebrate to one degree or another.
Some of these holidays hold more meaning then others, so only to some groups of people, the one that seems almost a waist of time anymore is Veterans Day, Nov 11, marking the end of WWI the war to end all wars. My father was in WWI, he has been gone over 25 years, I am sure there are some that are still alive that were in that war maybe a hand full but at some time maybe it should be time to retire it and move on. If we don't we wont have room for new days to celebrate, look at the Catholics, they celebrate every saint they have, all 500 of them, its a wonder they get anything done.
So, this Thursday, Thanksgiving Day I am having a couple friends over, they are members here at the archive and my son his wife and my grandson, I am cooking, the menu is set, a couple last minute things to pick up and then we can eat tell we cant move, then have pies, this year a pumpkin and black berry.
Happy Thanksgiving all,
River, Rupert and Nelly
