November 27

Yep, we're having turkey and all the stuff that goes with it and several relative's, including momma Lena, are going to be here to help us eat it. Hopefully that will help cut down on those extra pound producing leftovers.

I had always heard that fat people were always jolly and there came a time when a bit more happy was desired so I became fat........ They lied! They lied! Much too late, but I now believe that the grimace made as we try to move our huge bodies around has always been mistaken for a grin.


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In case you didn't know:

The Pilgrims sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and arrived in North America in December 1620. By the fall of 1621 only half of the pilgrims, who had sailed on the Mayflower, survived. The survivors, thankful to be alive, decided to give a thanksgiving feast.

The Pilgrim leader, Governor William Bradford, had organized the first Thanksgiving feast in the fall of 1621 at Plymouth, Massachusetts and the celebration lasted three days. He invited around ninety Wampanoag Indians and their chief, Massasoit to the feast.


Congress passed an official proclamation in 1941 and declared that now onwards Thanksgiving will be observed as a legal holiday on the fourth Thursday of November every year.


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"Thanksgiving Day comes, by statute, once a year; to the honest man it comes as frequently as the heart of gratitude will allow."-Edward Sandford Martin