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posted on November 22, 2006 06:15:40 AM new
How much time will you spend on eBay tomorrow? There, now it is not "off topic".
A card in our collection postmarked Nov. 26 1912. The message starts: "Dear Dorothy: How would you like to have your picture taken in this way?"
Hope all the eBay Outlookers have a great day and terrific sales!
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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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pat1959
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posted on November 22, 2006 06:30:51 AM new
And a Happy Thanksgiving to you, too!
Did eBay listings yesterday and will be doing Amazon listings and shipments today. Tomorrow we'll be off to town for a turkey dinner cooked by someone else, followed by a movie. NO cooking! NO football! 
Love that postcard! My sympathies to the turkey AND the cook!
Pat
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neglus
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posted on November 22, 2006 06:37:16 AM new
Happy Thanksgiving to all VD'ers!
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[ edited by neglus on Nov 22, 2006 06:38 AM ]
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pixiamom
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posted on November 22, 2006 06:55:48 AM new
 
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glassgrl
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posted on November 22, 2006 07:09:08 AM new
Love the turkeys singing
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ladyjewels2000
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posted on November 22, 2006 08:19:48 AM new
Happy Thanksgiving all.
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pixiamom
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posted on November 22, 2006 08:58:11 AM new
I wish I could think of this as the day before Thanksgiving instead of the day Kennedy was shot.
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roadsmith
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posted on November 22, 2006 09:51:29 AM new
Pixi, I'm with you on that Kennedy thing. I was pregnant with my first baby, had never changed a diaper, and a friend with 6 little boys offered to show me how. Meanwhile, my husband was in the hospital for some post-op repair work after an appendectomy. The phone rang at my friend's house, and I heard her say, "Hello. Yes, she is. Oh no, oh no, oh no, oh no. Thank you."
All I could think was that my husband had died in the hospital. When she told me my husband was calling from the hospital to tell us to turn on the TV because Kennedy had been shot, I have to admit I was relieved it was "only" Kennedy, not my dear guy!
I'll never forget where I was that day, as I'm sure is the case with most Americans.
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posted on November 22, 2006 11:40:48 AM new
Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
Regarding Kennedy, I must be a little too young,(now there's something I don't get to say too often!) it never occured to me that this was the day he was shot- of course I was only 3 at the time.
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deur1
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posted on November 22, 2006 12:53:22 PM new
I was in school. The teacher was called out in the hall, when she came back in she was crying.
I learned two things that day
Teachers are indeed human and could cry
My dad could cry
That was the first time I ever saw my daddy cry. The only other time was when my oldest brother returned from Vietnam
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pelorus
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posted on November 22, 2006 03:42:02 PM new
I was in 8th grade gym class, sitting on the dusty gym floor, when the teacher came in and told us.
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neglus
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posted on November 22, 2006 05:31:27 PM new
I was in 7th grade algebra and my teacher cried too.
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posted on November 22, 2006 05:41:37 PM new
Within a day the news was augmented by the reports of schoolchildren at school, cheering when they heard the news. Pretty grim. Kennedy was "bad" to much of the south in those days.
Edited to add that it was Dallas schoolchildren cheering.
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glassgrl
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posted on November 23, 2006 03:16:50 AM new
May your stuffing be tasty. May your turkey be plump.
May your potatoes ' n gravy have nary a lump.
May your yams be delicious. May your pies take the prize.
May your Thanksgiving dinner stay off of your thighs.
MAY YOU ALL HAVE A BLESSED THANKSGIVING!
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tomwiii
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posted on November 23, 2006 03:39:33 AM new
FROM ME & RALPHIE TO ONE-N-ALL OUT DERE IN VD-LAND:
"Happy gobble-gobble-gobble-woof-bark-burp!"
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glassgrl
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posted on November 23, 2006 04:27:55 AM new
ya'll take a moment and look at this children's ebook by Masaru Emoto.
http://www.internationalwaterforlifefoundation.org/what_we_do.htm
http://www.hado.net/
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kozersky
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posted on November 23, 2006 08:20:56 AM new
Have a great day. Happy Thanksgiving!
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pmelcher
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posted on November 23, 2006 09:01:10 AM new
Happy Thanksgiving to one and all!!
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bjboswell
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posted on November 23, 2006 09:08:08 AM new
A HAPPY THANKSGIVING DAY TO ALL FROM THE GREAT NORTH WOODS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE.... WHERE THANK GOD THE SUN IS SHINING AND ITS QUITE NICE ... 45 DEGREES
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posted on November 23, 2006 10:05:42 AM new
Hope you are all having a wonderful Thanksgiving day!
Maryland is chilly and wet. My husband set up the bar-b-que inside the garage. That is a tradition we always keep. Even if it snows he bar-b-ques the Thanksgiving turkey and a Christmas prime rib with charcoal and mesquite wood chips.
Over the years we have pared down our Thanksgiving menu to the bare essentials we like best: smoked turkey, giblet gravy, whole grain bread dressing, home made cranberry sauce, cauliflower with cheese sauce, and apple pie.
Does not seem like a meal for two that should take two days of work  but it does. In spite of the planning and work this is my favorite holiday.
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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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pixiamom
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posted on November 23, 2006 10:38:59 AM new
Got up early, got my mashed potatoes in the crockpot (I'm a guest at mt little sis' in Salem this year). Packed for a long weekend, pulled the postcards I need to ship. Finally went to take a shower. While I'm standing in the tub, waiting for the water to heat up, I looked down and my feet were gone! I'm nearly blind without my glasses, but I can see outlines and they were gone! Nothing from the ankles down. I thought I had really gone over the edge and bent down to feel my feet and they were covered in left-over bubbles from my son's bubble bath... Time to slow down and enjoy the day!
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posted on November 23, 2006 10:55:56 AM new
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone.
I've spent the day fielding 7 phone calls from my daughter who is cooking the turkey this year. One of her calls went like this, ... "Mom, I have a stupid question. When you wash out the turkey, are you supposed to use soap?"
arghhh.
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posted on November 23, 2006 11:14:32 AM new
Aintrichyet, that is cute. I remember reading an article about cleaning mushrooms. Someone called the help line for a company that sold mushrooms and said that washing the mushrooms made them taste funny. They questioned her about the way she was doing it and learned she was washing them in Mr. Clean!
My apple pie is done. Those Granny Smith apples were really tart. I used extra Splenda (we don't eat sugar) but I think it will still cause us to pucker up!
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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 23, 2006 12:47:40 PM new
ok I'll share my Turkey day oopsie - in hope that it keeps somebody else from making the same mistake
my husband went and spent Thanksgiving with his kids so he could go hunting. He wanted me to make the turkey to take up there so I go to the store and instead of a no name turkey I bought the Butterball. Thawed it out for 4 days in the fridge and yesterday I went to make the giblet gravy - stuck my hand up in there and pulled the plastic bag out....and it was just the neck. No gizzards, no liver, no nothing.
I was so mad! I called Butterball and complained and they said they'll send me a $20.00 gift certificate.
This morning I cooked the turkey and after it was done I wanted to transfer it to another pan. He stuck the tongs in the neck and OUT CAME THE OTHER BAG with the livers and gizzards. Thankfully the plastic bag had not melted. Why didn't anybody tell me the other bag was in the neck? I KNEW I had felt all up inside that darned turkey and there was nothing else up in there!
I'm just glad it happened here instead of when they went to cut the turkey up there!
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posted on November 23, 2006 12:53:51 PM new
Happy Thanksgiving everyone !!
Ahh I have it easy this time, I only had to make the deviled eggs and 4 cream cheese pies,my daughter made 4 pans of Neiman Marcus bars...2 for my aunts house and 2 for Amanda fiancée grandmothers house.
http://www.bluemountain.com/display.pd?path=35274&prodnum=3083043
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posted on November 23, 2006 12:54:26 PM new
pumpkin bread already cooling, and baby back ribs still covered in sneasonings in the fridge.
have a great thanksgiving weekend.
Cheers,
Chris
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posted on November 23, 2006 12:55:25 PM new
One year I had the turkey all prepared. All Steve had to do was throw it in the oven. He doesn't cook much so when he put it in the oven he also "locked" the oven. So we ended up "cleaning" our turkey that year.
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posted on November 23, 2006 02:11:56 PM new
Great stories. My mother, bless her, could be more than a bit ditsy at times. One Thanksgiving we had company coming so she got up early and got the Turkey in the oven to be ready in the early afternoon. When the guests arrived with the table set and all the side dishes in place we went to take out the turkey and realized, she FORGOT TO TURN ON THE OVEN! She turned it on and we had snacks and visited till it was cooked. Instead of 2:00 we ate at 7:00. In hindsight I don't know why we were not sick since the turkey sat at room temperature for hours.
We have finished dinner. The turkey was perfect (thanks to my husbands bar-b-que skills) and all the sides were fabulous if I do say so myself. Problem? The kitchen is a mess and all the left overs have to be fit into the fridge. This is the downside to my favorite holiday.
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Maholy-Nagy, Vision in Motion, 1947
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posted on November 23, 2006 02:45:20 PM new
When I lived in Miami, we had some Italian friends and they invited family, friends and anybody who came walking by. She had a commercial kitchen installed with a huge oven. One year she cooked 3 turkeys. We dined well on antipasto, pasta, turkey and all the trimmings.
2 weeks later she happened to open the oven door and there was the 3rd turkey. She had forgotten about it. It was certainly well done and "ripe"
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posted on November 23, 2006 07:25:38 PM new
omigosh ... these stories are all awesome ... my daughter's dinner turned out tasting wonderful, although she was frazzled (a couple of her 'dishes' didn't turn out right, (nor edible) but that didnt' matter; there was plenty enough food to fill all, and leftovers too ... i was there for gravy making and grandchild cuddling ... it's all good.
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