posted on November 21, 2005 08:09:39 AMA Thanksgiving Prayer
"O God, when I have food,
help me to remember the hungry;
When I have work,
help me to remember the jobless;
When I have a home,
help me to remember those who have no home at all;
When I am without pain,
help me to remember those who suffer,
And remembering,
help me to destroy my complacency;
bestir my compassion,
and be concerned enough to help;
By word and deed,
those who cry out for what we take for granted.
Amen."
posted on November 21, 2005 09:10:17 AM
Vintage: And to you and yours, too. (Love the postcard!)
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posted on November 22, 2005 06:51:27 AM
Best of Thanksgving wishes to all of you!
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“The illiterate of the future will be the person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as of the pen.”
Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on November 22, 2005 11:47:01 AM
Oh man! I can't believe Tday is almost here ! We are hosting a houseful of college kids for the weekend (lucky me).
posted on November 23, 2005 09:10:23 PM
I'm REALLY THANKFUL to all the kind folks on this board who have been so helpful over the years. I sell consignment items and get a WIDE variety of items so there's no way I can be even a "semi-expert" in all the areas. People on this board have freely given of their time and expertise to help "educate" me..so...THANKS ALL and I hope your Thanksgiving is a special day for you all!
posted on November 23, 2005 09:52:50 PM
You said it, blueeyes! We who dabble in the universe of collectibles and consignments learn new things regularly but have mountains of info we can't possibly research. These people have been absolutely wonderful, and it's very seldom I can be of any help to any of them.
Love Thanksgiving--the purest of American holidays, untainted, as of yet, by commercialism. (I guess the turkeys wouldn't feel so great about it, though.)
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posted on November 24, 2005 06:21:20 AM
Yo! Classic!
Ralphie wants to know if you'd like to pluck the feathers from his bird?"
"We look forward to hearing your vision, so we can more better do our job. That's what I'm telling you." —George W. Bush, Gulfport, Miss., Sept. 20, 2005
posted on November 24, 2005 08:14:28 AM
I was up at 4:30 this morning to put the turkey in the oven, so the waiting game has started. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on November 24, 2005 09:15:01 AM
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Thank you, too, for the wonderful Yam recipes in that thread. I'm trying the one with the apples and raisins today. It's all ready to pop into the oven.
Snow, snow everywhere! The east side of Cleveland expects up to 6 foot drifts of snow. We were lucky with only about 2". Not so lucky last night when a manhole cover blew off down the street from us. Sounded like a bomb going off.
Enjoy!
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
posted on November 24, 2005 09:28:21 AM
did anyone see the story on cnn last night about the hazards of deep frying a turkey? it sounds awful to me (all that grease in the cavity), but my hubby says they're delicious.
apparently, people tend to put the deep fryers a little too close to the house and put in a little too much oil. and poof! in under four seconds, a rather impressive fire ensues. a doctor in california had over $100k of damage to his house from one of these deep frying adventures. and they had some firefighters demonstrate how difficult these grease fires are to put out.
posted on November 24, 2005 10:54:30 AM
Cheryl: I was about to tell McJane that I'm trying the yams and apples with raisins. I doubled the recipe, put it in a rectangular baking dish. Baked it halfway last night, refrigerated it, and will finish it today before going to our friends' house. So far it looks and smells delicious. Full report AFTER the meal, of course.
Edited to add: I cheated on the yams. I have some arthritis in my hands and dreaded cutting up raw yams, so I bought three large cans and used that.
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posted on November 24, 2005 01:53:11 PM
roadsmith- I boil my sweet potatoes whole until they are cooked. I let them cool down and then slide the peels off. I then easily slice and arrange them in a baking dish with mandarin oranges and sliced pecans. I make a brown sugar glaze and pour this over the potatoes.
posted on November 24, 2005 06:20:20 PM
Twig: I was too lazy to get yams and boil them first. Next time I'll try that.
But I want you all to know that that recipe was a huge hit at our friends' house! It was very delicious, and using the canned yams made it even easier. We had 11 at dinner, and doubling the recipe into a rectangular baking dish was the perfect amount. This recipe is definitely a keeper.
Cheryl, I hope you liked it as much as our crowd did!
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posted on November 24, 2005 06:34:50 PM
Roadsmith...What I wanna know is how you could keep a straight face when you told all those people that it was an old family recipe that you had made hundreds of times before
A $75.00 solid state device will always blow first to protect a 25 cent fuse ~ Murphy's Law
posted on November 24, 2005 07:07:42 PM
Hahahahaha, Just saw an excerpt on the NEWS of L.A. Firefighters Cooking their,,,,,,, Bird. What METHOD did they use??????? Deep Frying!!!!!! and the OIL was BubBling OVER like CRAZY!!!!!!!!! Splattering! You HAD to SEE it to BELIEVE it......bubling and splattering.....just to PROVE it WAS,,,,,they said 45 mins,,,,,walla ,,, cooked!!!!!!!
Happy Thanksgiving to ALL,,,,,ALL over the Nation and the WORLD.....God Bless those Semper Fi's, Salute!
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everyone ! May your 
be moist and you have many things to be thankful for ! 
