Nice thoughts Cory - thanks! I flew via Detroit to central Michigan yesterday afternoon - relatively stress free trip.
I live in Kansas City - we don't have a professional football team to watch... The best game of the year in the Chief's stadium will be this Saturday when Univ of Missouri (9-1) plays Univ of Kansas (10-0) for what may be #1 or #2 in the ratings. The farm turkey tasted great, the wild turkeys wandering through the yard looked gawky as usual. Relatively tame, but still too alert to let me get closer than about 25 feet. The dead weeds with light snow cap were stationary enough to photograph, though, so I got in my daily photo fix. stan On Nov 22, 2007, at 8:35 AM, cbwaters wrote: > It's Thanksgiving day here in America. > Yesterday was the busiest travel day of the year (or Sunday will > be... it's > neck and neck). All the airports and highways are usually clogged > to the > breaking point or beyond. Family members across our nation were > stressed to > the max trying to get their herds and shit together to make the > trip to > Grandma's or Aunt's house to have a family gathering that can be > one of the > best days of the year. > > Accidents happen. Weather happens. Cars break down. People get > drunk. > Inter-family fights that can cause rifts that last years or for > ever...happen. People who have nobody might eat TV dinners alone. We > Americans have hundreds of thousands or troops overseas. They and > their > loved ones are sad today and probably more than a little afraid. > > Holidays cover the whole spectrum. > > But there's turkey, stuffing , green bean casserole, cranberries > and of > course the NFL. So it's not all bad right? > > I had the turkey feast with my family last night. I'm working tonight > because the Falcons (Atlanta's pro football team) have a game. > It's the > first time in my 35 years that I've not had turkey, family and > football all > together on this day. It's a little weird. But I cant *really* > complain. > I have a job that pays alright, a home that's warm or cool as the > weather > demands, more turkey than I can eat (where are those leftovers > anyway?), and > lots of family who love me. > > It's tradition on Thanksgiving to take stock of the things you're > thankful > for. > > I'm thankful for you lot. Admittedly, you're not in the top tier > on my list > <evil grin> Family and love take that spot pretty well. But my > friends on > this list and others on the internet are a nice piece of life. > > So thanks guys and gals for being there, being funny, being > thoughtful (yes, > really), and being friendly (mostly). > > Cheers. > > Cory Waters > > /moody > /introspective > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above > and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
