BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats

Subject: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Vixen
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 12:10 PM

D'Cats--

I'm about to log off for the long weekend, and I wanted to let you all know that I will be giving special thanks to all available higher powers for all of you and this cyberplace on Thursday!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

V

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Paul G.
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 12:14 PM

Same here, and best to all of you. I'll be doing the Florida bouce this holiday weekend...from Jacksonville to Sarasota to Venice to West Palm Beach to Sebastian and Back to Jacksonville on Sunday when I'll get back to the 'cat and caught up...Anyone who will be on the roads, the rails or in the air, travel well!

Paul G.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Easy Rider
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 12:23 PM

AMEN!

Happy Thanksgiving to you, all Mudcatters, everywhere.

Gobble, gobble, EZR

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: SingsIrish Songs
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 12:41 PM

I better clean my glasses...I didn't see this thread before!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Mary

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: KathWestra
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 01:33 PM

Thanks to all of you, for providing this supportive community, lots of good information and discussion, and lots of smiles. Thanks especially to Max, Dick, and Susan for keeping it all together. Happy Thanksgiving! Kath

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: BeauDangles
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 01:40 PM

I hope all you MudCatters out there find something to be thankful for. In fact, we all have at least one thing: The MudCat Cafe and all it's denizens! May your feast be plentiful, and your wastebands elastic.

My brother commented the other day that we always say Merry Christmas and Happy Thanksgiving, but never the other way around. So in the spirit of adventure,

Merry Thanksgiving everybody!

BeauDangles

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Art Thieme
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 01:54 PM

I reiterate! (But don't eat the skin.)

Enjoy all.

Art

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Canadian Bill C
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 02:17 PM

Thanksgiving was six weeks ago!

Thanks to you all anyway!

Bill

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From:
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 03:19 PM

Happy Thanksgiving, going away for a few days and will miss my housecats and my Mudcats. This is one American cultural icon I don't feel guilty about, hope you all have plenty to be thankful for. John

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: bet
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 03:36 PM

Happy Day of Thanksgiving from kat at her sister bet's house. Made the pumpkin pies, today; the snow is off the roads and the sun is shining.

Thank you all!

luvyaKat

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 03:54 PM

Happy Thanksgiving from balmy New Hampshire (70 F today!!??). Mudcat is definitely high on my gratitude list!

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Bob Landry
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 04:02 PM

Oh no! Canadian Bill beat me to the punch. Have a great one, my Amurrican Mudcat buddies. And however belated it may be, I give Thanks to all the good folks at the Mudcat for making this site available.

From the Great White North, Bob Landry (a proud Acadian, Canadian Mudcatter.)

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: annamill
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 07:24 PM

HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING TOMORROW MY WONDERFUL FRIENDS!!

I WON'T HAVE TO COOK. My beautiful daughter invited me to her house for turkey day. This is the very first time SHE cooked for ME and I'm going to enjoy every moment of it. I'll just sit and play with my Grandchildren and watch her work. I'm very thankful for my daughter, and my son, and my Honey, and you guys, and my new job. I'm very grateful this year. A lot to celebrate.

Again, have a wonderful. Overindulge. Enjoy. Party.

Love, annap

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Sandy Paton
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:29 PM

Greetings to all! We'll be sharing the meal, the day, and the thanks with Karen K, Bob Zentz (with whom we're gigging at Hartford's "Sounding Board" on Saturday night), and several other good friends, plus Dave (#1 son) and his wife and their four (4!) kids. Music and songs to follow until the wee hours. Hope you all have as much to be thankful for.

Grandpa Sandy

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Mudjack
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 08:37 PM

Happy and Grateful for all the things to be giving THANKS to. The Mudcat Community too. Eat and be merry......
Mudjack

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: MMario
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 10:32 PM

it goes without saying, but I will say it anyway....Happy Thanksgiving to all.....and in a bit of thread creep - Non US 'catters should make more mention and fuss about THEIR holidays.....(any excuse is good.....) and in further creep......I hear "Happy Christmas" a lot, as it was typical of Victorian England, and I do a Dicken's Event from Thanksgiving to Christmas each year....

MMario - whoseturkeyisintheoven,piesbaked,cranberrysaucemadeandonlythemashed'taterstodoonthemorrow.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Pete Peterson
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 10:42 PM

Sometimes overindulgence is just fine
In a land that I heard of once in a nursery rhyme
Where lemon drops fall from the sky
And ice cream clouds go floating by above me
Where earth is made of chocolate cake
And mud pies just taste really great
Is where you'll find me
Sometimes overindulgence is just fine
You can eat all that you want to, no one will draw the line

From the Prarie Home Companion Song Book of the Pankakes, the VERY FIRST song in the book. Theme song for tomorrow? Happy Thanksgiving to all. I have much to be thankful for.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Alice
Date: 24 Nov 99 - 10:51 PM

Happy turkey day, to all, and to all a good night (early morning paper route, I am no longer the night owl). alice

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 04:35 AM

Do you not think it was a brave person who first sat down and looked at a turkey, with malice aforethought and a big plate of stuffing......?

We don't get Thanksgiving here (sniff sniff), but we do have Christmas starting in August now!!! (indignant sniff!) Have a good holiday, and remember those whose only reason to be thankful, is that they are still alive.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 04:47 AM

Do Native Americans celebrate Thanksgiving?

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Alice
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 09:52 AM

Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to celebrate Thanksgiving.

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Alice
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 10:29 AM

click here for Thanksgiving Information.

quote in part

"The Algonkian tribes held six thanksgiving festivals during the year. The beginning of the Algonkian year was marked by the Maple Dance which gave thanks to the Creator for the maple tree and its syrup. This ceremony occurred when the weather was warm enough for the sap to run in the maple trees, sometimes as early as February. Second was the planting feast, where the seeds were blessed. The strawberry festival was next, celebrating the first fruits of the season. Summer brought the green corn festival to give thanks for the ripening corn. In late fall, the harvest festival gave thanks for the food they had grown. Mid-winter was the last ceremony of the old year. When the Indians sat down to the "first Thanksgiving" with the Pilgrims, it was really the fifth thanksgiving of the year for them! "

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: catspaw49
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 12:12 PM

In another Thanksgiving Day thread, I said it all...but since old Spaw is rarely without words, I'll say it briefly again.

I have much in this world to be thankful for today. Frankly, I'm just glad I AM here today; there was the alternative that presented itself awhile back. I am now and will always be thankful to have found this community of kindred spirits who have somehow managed to tolerate my demented sense of humor and somewhat askew view of the world. You have helped me grow musically and to regress in maturity......perhaps a mixed blessing to you, but I'm grateful for both. And I have been blessed by the support which you provided to me and Karen...especially to Karen...which got us through the month of May. Thank you once again.

Most of all, I'm forever amazed, astonished, and in debt to the fates that brought Karen into my life. She has made so many things possible..........I would be lost without her. And, I as have said before, without her there would be no fine, young sons to let me hear the best four words in the language, "I love you Dad."

Enjoy yourselves today and this weekend too. Eat, sing, talk, laugh.....and burp! To all of you, my friends and neighbors in the Village of Mudcat....Bite the Bird!

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Dave Swan
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 12:52 PM

This is my very favorite day of the year. I'm pleased to be thankful in this village. With warmest regards, gratitude and good cheer, we are your friends, Dave & Pam

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Áine
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 01:30 PM

Happy, happy T-Day 'Catters!

I'm taking a little break in between cooking the bacon for the Hoppin' John and making coffee for the troops here at my house. I just looked into the living room from the kitchen and saw my husband and my four beautiful children, the oldest with his arm around the youngest, laughing and talking together. This has to be the greatest Thanksgiving that I can ever remember since my Uncle Billy came back from Vietnam in one piece.

And it's even more wonderful because I can share it with all of you! Thanks to all of you for just being . . . and have a wonderful T-Day (although, we are having ham instead, because guess who forgot to take the silly bird out of the freezer in time!)

-- Áine

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: Dani
Date: 25 Nov 99 - 07:40 PM

Good wishes and love to all. Plenty to be thankful for here, too. Though I don't eat turkey (yuck) we feasted beautifully with family and friends, then sat with our sleepy, full little girls for the ritual "Alice's Restaurant Massacree". My 5 year old: "Mama, how do you KNOW all those words? How do you know what he's going to say?!"

Heading to Northern VA for the weekend.. anything happening that shouldn't be missed?

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Happy thanksgiving, Mudcats
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 20 Nov 00 - 08:45 AM

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