Happy Thanksgiving to all Past, Present and Future Patrons of DocNib's PenEmporium!

For those who celebrate this Holiday, enjoy your day, especially being with your family or friends...and don't hold back on the eating! I know I won't (it smells so GOOOOOD right now!)!

For those who don't celebrate this tradition, take advantage of all the sales, especially on-line pen sales...Turkey & Stuffing and/or Pens, a Win-Win situation for all!

Enjoy!
DocNib
PS--Don't forget, Christmas & Hanukkah are just around the corner, buy early & avoid getting stressed-out!

Happy Thanksgiving, Doc!

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Hi Pep!

Belated thanks for your response to my Thanksgiving! I'm still waddling around like a duck after one of the best T'Giving dinners I've ever had. Put a 21lb turkey in the oven at 9:00AM (on low heat!), basting it every hour on the hour (my JOB!) and at 4:00PM, VOILA, a perfect succulent bird was the tasty result!

Throw in NurseNibble's famous stuffing and all the other extras, including home-made Apple pie, a roaring fire in the fireplace, two 130lb drooling Akitas...smiles all around! Even saw two very large wild Wolves in our backyard earlier in the day (first ones we've ever seen here, they follow the 2-large Cougars on our property from last week!)...I think they came down the mountain to help me baste the Turkey!

Hope yours was as enjoyable as ours!
Best regards,
DOC
PS--Lots of leftovers for Turkey Fried Rice, Turkey Quiche, Open-face Turkey & Gravy Sandwiches and more!

Doc, Glad you had a good one! I finally experienced the Thanksgiving Stuffing Overeating Syndrome! Somebody made 4 kinds of stuffing and I had to try them all! Pep

What a way to go

This may sound very odd to all you USA people but here in the UK we dont have the equivilent of 'thanksgiving' so what is its actual meaning? It seems very widely celebrated over there and I have often wondered where its roots lie.

It's supposed to go back to the Pilgrims, who landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620, in what is now Massachusetts. The annual event celebrated in the U.S.A. actually goes back to a declaration by President Lincoln shortly before his assassination in April 1865. That thanksgiving Day was to be for giving thanks for the Civil War being over. With some modifications it has become what we celebrate today.

A lot of Americans probably don't know about the Civial War part, but the iconography associated with the holiday is steeped in the Pilgrim's event.

It's a very family holiday with extended families frequently trying to all come together at a central place for the big turkey dinner. So some grandparents end up with all of their progeny and progenies' progeny piling in for the big day, along with other extended family members and sometimes friends too.

It is typified in the American experience by a lot of excess in eating and drinking, with alcohol consumption by those who can't handle the stuff an additional feature.

The day after Thanksgiving is called Black Friday and is traditionally when people go nuts shopping. It used to be that Black Friday began the shopping season for the gift giving on December 25, which we all know is universally celebrated as Isaac Newton's Birthday. But the shopping season has been pushed way back now and although Black Friday is still the big shopping day the ads with Santa Claus, snowpersons, reindeer, etc. can now be seen showing up on TV at Halloween.

It's called Black Friday decause that's when healthy retail businesses should go into the black for the year, getting a good portion of their business, and just about all of their profit, for the year from the last 6 or so weeks after Thanksgiving. I don't know if this piece of economic traditional belief is still operative, however.

I'm gonna have to run everyday next week to balance this week's eating spree...