Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2012/11/21
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Thanks, Nathan. I also have mixed feelings about the holiday and prefer to remember what we were taught in elementary school about the happy indigenous people welcoming the immigrants and teaching them to plant fish with their corn ;-) We all sat through many Thanksgiving programs during our school years wearing construction paper feathers on our heads. We are having a North Carolina, air-cured country ham instead of a turkey. It is soaking in my hard apple cider now. It will just be Tom and me and Laura. Our other daughter and three of the grandkids went to Disney World. (Sometimes I wonder if she is really related to me.) Our oldest son and one grandaughter are in Portland, Oregon, and can't make it. Our next son is working in Charleston on Thanksgiving. So much for family! Normally, we go to Tom's hometown where his five sisters still live but every year they go all out and fix way too much food and they are all getting much older. Right now three of the sisters are not speaking to the other two and Tom's older brother who also lives there speaks to no one. All of them watch Fox News, voted for Romney and are convinced that Obama is a Muslim and America is doomed. So we decided to spare them the chore of fixing the big dinner and will go later in the year. Maybe political feelings will have faded a little by then. We also pull for different football teams since Tom graduated from Auburn and they all pull for Alabama! I'm very, very thankful this year that we will be at the farm and I will be surrounded by the people and chickens and ducks and geese and guineas and dog and cat who love me ;-) I couldn't be happier. Hope you have a wonderful non-Thanksgiving week-end! Tina On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>wrote: > It is soon Thursday on my side of the Atlantic, so it is appropriate to > wish my American friends a happy Thanksgiving. I have always been slightly > ambivalent about this holiday, because I cannot help thinking about what > happened to the Indians who welcomed the settlers, but I shall not be a > killjoy. My personal memories of the holiday involve the annual drive from > New Jersey to Florida to spend the long weekend with my family down there, > usually enhanced by a Gator victory on Saturday afternoon. > > So, may your light be good, may your turkey be tender, may your favorite > team win, and most importantly, may you enjoy this holiday in the company > of people who love you. > > Cheers, > Nathan > > Nathan Wajsman > Alicante, Spain > http://www.frozenlight.eu > http://www.greatpix.eu > PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws > Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ > > > YNWA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > -- Tina Manley, ASMP www.tinamanley.com