For what are ye thankful?

SoWal Expert

Nov 16, '05 · 9:39 PM12,263

My list is way too long, but I will throw out one thing for which I am thankful, good peeps like most of you guys.

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Meow

Nov 24, '05 · 8:53 PM#77

Paula...your celebration sounds wonderful! Our family is small and I always felt my kids missed out on a large extended group of relatives.

I do remember the little mouse on Ed Sullivan....so cute and charming and usually in Black and White!!

picky

Nov 24, '05 · 10:21 PM#78

Alright now, party's over, plates are cleared, and we've all said our goodbyes and hugged and kissed and said it was a wonderful perfect Thanksgiving. Our hearts and tummies are full.

I have one more thing to be grateful for. Right now. You know what it is? You all know what it is!

Elastic!

Beach Fanatic

Nov 24, '05 · 10:45 PM#79

Alright now, party's over, plates are cleared, and we've all said our goodbyes and hugged and kissed and said it was a wonderful perfect Thanksgiving. Our hearts and tummies are full.

I have one more thing to be grateful for. Right now. You know what it is? You all know what it is!

Elastic!

Wooo Hooooo.... :rofl: Mermaid!!!!!!

Beach Fanatic

Nov 25, '05 · 5:20 AM#80

Paula...your celebration sounds wonderful! Our family is small and I always felt my kids missed out on a large extended group of relatives.

I do remember the little mouse on Ed Sullivan....so cute and charming and usually in Black and White!!

Sueshore:

Our celebration gets smaller (it was 13 people yesterday) as the years go by because the older generation is fading (but not too much smaller because as some have died, others have been born).

I'm glad you remember Topo Gigio -- he was a hoot! I think he may still a bit of a cult "hit" in Brazil because there's quite a bit of Topo Gigio stuff being sold from Brazil on EBay. His famous line was "Eddie... Kiss me goodnight".

I think someday our Thanksgiving will be in SoWal but we'll be eating on the same old dining room table that we ate at in my parents' home because we put the table and chairs in our little cottage at the beach -- and we'll still listen to the Italian Christmas carols to kick off the holiday season.

Every Thanksgiving I think about how so many people celebrate Thanksgiving with their own traditions and how wonderful that is! And how parts of traditions are preserved over time and place. Really wonderful.

One of the reasons we bought our place at the beach is that I could see the Italians in our family were fading and I (and our family) needed something really special to move toward for the future because we couldn't hold onto the past. And when I saw the beaches, places, and people along 30A, I knew I had found a most wonderful place for our family traditions to move toward. We have started many new wonderful traditions on 30A and for this I am grateful.

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SoWal Expert

Nov 25, '05 · 6:55 AM#81

Paula...your celebration sounds wonderful! Our family is small and I always felt my kids missed out on a large extended group of relatives.

Our family is now very small, so we usually "import" other people. Last night it was at my mom's- the 4 Dargs, Bdarg's mom, my best friend, her husband and 2 kids, including her MIL (too many MILs!), and another couple with a little girl that Mom knew from church and they didn't have family in town. It was fun, and my family members behave much better when there are "non-family" members around. We had a great time- and I have what's left of Mr. Turkey simmering in the stock pot now!

Poor Paw Paw! Make sure you tell him he has coast-to-coast sympathy for his thumb! Guess he can't hitchhike now!

SoWal Expert

Nov 25, '05 · 6:56 AM#82

Alright now, party's over, plates are cleared, and we've all said our goodbyes and hugged and kissed and said it was a wonderful perfect Thanksgiving. Our hearts and tummies are full.

I have one more thing to be grateful for. Right now. You know what it is? You all know what it is!

Elastic!

Yup- in the sweats right now. May not take them off all day!

SoWal Expert

Nov 14, '07 · 4:42 PM#83

Look- I found a 2 year old Thanksgiving thread!! I look forward to reading the whole thing later. Couldn't find the 2006 thread- will keep looking.

Happy reminiscing to you all---- :wub:

Meow

Nov 14, '07 · 4:50 PM#84

...I'll read it later. But, it's a good one to bring back, because I was out picking up pecans in the backyard with the cold winds blowing in (and making the pecans fall like little bombs) and thought...this is something to be thankful for!

SoWal Expert

Nov 14, '07 · 4:53 PM#85

I sooooooo remember this thread!! Thanks for bringing it back! I'm gonna read it now because I'm stuck here at the office waiting for a dinner I have to go to at 6:00. I do remember the cornbread though...

SoWal Expert

Nov 14, '07 · 5:20 PM#86

I'm thankful that I have wonderful friends and family to celebrate Thanksgiving with and the resources to go always* go home for the holidays.

*when I am on the same continent

Darlene is my middle name, not my nickname

Nov 14, '07 · 8:59 PM#87

I try to share my gift. ;-)

Our MS just showed up about an hour ago for Thanksgiving. His contribution to the meal, a 24 pack of Miller Light! Lord, I love that child!!!!!! :funn::funn::funn:

:funn:I LOVED THIS!!!!!!

I went back and read this whole thread. Thank you again jdarg. While I was reading it, I thought to myself.....and now she is there permantely. :wub:

SoWal ExpertAuthor

Nov 14, '07 · 9:07 PM#88

On the small scale, I'm thankful to have internet at my house. On the big scale, I am very thankful to know many wonderful people and pets who I call my friends and family. I am also thankful that I am in good health and able to do so many things.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 9:21 PM#89

...I'll read it later. But, it's a good one to bring back, because I was out picking up pecans in the backyard with the cold winds blowing in (and making the pecans fall like little bombs) and thought...this is something to be thankful for!

Miss K, please share your wisdom on how you find picking up pecans to be something to be thankful for as I need the inspiration. We have 2 large trees in our yard and I despise dealing with them. Share your wisdom, please.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 9:55 PM#90

The gifts of nature, knowledge, faith, understanding, tolerance, "family", and a good Margarita! tb

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 9:57 PM#91

Pecans, shelled and picked, put in zip lock bags make wonderful gifts. :wub:

Meow

Nov 14, '07 · 10:36 PM#92

Miss K, please share your wisdom on how you find picking up pecans to be something to be thankful for as I need the inspiration. We have 2 large trees in our yard and I despise dealing with them. Share your wisdom, please.

It's a bumper crop this year...I thought the web worms and squirrels were going to get them all! It's like an Easter Egg hunt and I love finding them! They are delicious! Tomorrow, I am getting the rake out! :wave:

P.S. I am a cheap date!

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 10:52 PM#93

I guess it is just a case of beauty in the eye of the beholder.

I don't like to eat them or bake with them. The only way I will eat them is hidden in fudge and then finely chopped.

We have a bumper crop too, they are everywhere, and my trees are right over my patio which makes a huge mess. Squirrels nibble on them constantly and make a mess on the patio and you can't walk for stepping on them. I have almost fallen over them several times.

Dbuck if you get to Memphis, I will gladly give you all you can carry home with you :clap:

and you know if they would fall from the trees, shelled and in zip lock bags I think I could really get into liking them. :lol:

But what I am thankful for is when they are all gone and my husband has raked the yard and every pecan and hull is gone. Yaaa.

Edited Nov 14, '07 · 10:57 PM

bean

Nov 14, '07 · 11:01 PM#94

Oooh, Minnie, I wish I lived close..we would come and take them all. I LOVE fresh pecans. I always buy them when I'm down south. I love to make pecan pie. We had walnut trees growng up but they were such a pain.

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 11:05 PM#95

Dbuck if you get to Memphis, I will gladly give you all you can carry home with you :clap:

and you know if they would fall from the trees, shelled and in zip lock bags I think I could really get into liking them. :lol:

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It's a deal!!! Oh please, shell them and put them in zip lock bags....that's what my mother does. :clap:

Mother's trees didn't produce many pecans this year....or so she says. :lol:

Beach Fanatic

Nov 14, '07 · 11:08 PM#96

Dbuck if you get to Memphis, I will gladly give you all you can carry home with you and you know if they would fall from the trees, shelled and in zip lock bags I think I could really get into liking them.
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It's a deal!!! Oh please, shell them and put them in zip lock bags....that's what my mother does. Mother's trees didn't produce many pecans this year....or so she says.

As I told my husband when we married, I don't do windows, mow the lawn, or shell pecans. You are welcome to them, but they come with the shells on them. :floor:

Actually my Mother and Aunt came and got baskets full and my neighbors in their 70's did too. Then they give me about 3 large bags full already shelled and that will last me for years.

Even then I still have hundreds on the ground and that many more in the trees. We usually have a bumper crop about every other year. We lost hundreds to the squirrels when they were green and to limbs breaking from the weight of the pecans.

Edited Nov 14, '07 · 11:11 PM