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Linda Jones
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posted November 16, 2012 03:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linda Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
By far my most favorite (least commercial) holiday!!

It's less than a week away and people are gonna start taking time off soon.

Enjoy stuffing yourselves to the gills, people, and travel safely.

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Randall
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posted November 16, 2012 04:11 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Eat mor chikin.

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posted November 17, 2012 10:22 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Randall     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Happy gobble gobble day, everyone.

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Linda Jones
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posted November 17, 2012 11:46 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linda Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by Randall:
Eat mor chikin.


Or turducken--chicken inside a duck, which is then stuffed inside a turkey. Yum!

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libraschoice77
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posted November 17, 2012 12:59 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for libraschoice77     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Happy Thanksgiving Day to all of LL

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juniperb
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posted November 17, 2012 01:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Thanksgiving is the most important holiday my family celebrates.

It is a day set aside for family and reviewing our past year. To give thanks for our success`s and failures. Both contribute to our personal and family growth . The reflection and giving thanks is the path to our future as individuals and members of society.

Happy Thanksgiving and many Blessings Knowflakes..

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Linda Jones
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posted November 17, 2012 01:56 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linda Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
And I hope every single person impacted by Sandy can have a blessed Thanksgiving too!

May an enormous and tremendous energy of love surround everyone to help balance the losses.

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Linda Jones
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posted November 18, 2012 11:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linda Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Anyone want to know if miracles really happen? Here's a ...

A TRULY INSPIRING THANKSGIVING STORY:

Story and video at--
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/11/16/greg-thomas-minnesota-man_n_2131483.html

Greg Thomas: Minnesota Man's Stage 4 Cancer Disappears While Restoring Old Church

A Minnesota man in need of a miracle found it in the most unlikely form -- at a rundown and abandoned old church that was as much in need of repair as he was.

Three years ago, Greg Thomas of Montgomery, Minn., was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer in both his head and neck, reported KARE 11 News.

"When I found out that I had cancer, they told my family to go ahead and start planning my funeral," Thomas told KARE.

Thomas -- who was 57 at the time of diagnosis -- was soon let go from his job delivering propane, and starting taking long walks though the rural Minnesota countryside with his dog.

It was during one of these long walks that Thomas came across the decaying old church that would save his life.

Thomas attempted to go inside the small chapel when he first came across it, but it was locked. Instead he merely sat on the steps for a while, reported the Lonsdale Area News-Review.

The small church had a crumbling foundation and peeling paint, but still, Thomas found himself on the concrete church steps almost everyday, praying.

"I tried [to get in] more than once," Thomas said; but the church was always locked.

Built in 1868 by Czech settlers who later moved to a bigger parish, the Budejovice Church had not been home to a congregation in more than a century.

One day, Thomas decided to reach out to the small neighborhood surrounding the church. He was out of work, and thought fixing up the church would give him a sort of sanctuary.

"He went to a neighbor and said he wanted to paint the church, and who does he talk to, so the neighbor sent him to talk to me," Don Rynda, treasurer of the foundation that keeps up the church cemetery, remembered about his first meeting with Thomas.

Rynda could barely believe it. Before Thomas approached him, he was afraid that the church was on it's last leg.

"It was a godsend, yes," says Rynda.

Thomas offered the association a deal: He would completely restore the church, if they supplied the materials, with one condition -- he wanted his own key to the establishment.

Despite the fact that radiation and chemotherapy thad robbed him of his energy, his saliva glands and even his teeth, Thomas went to work peeling away 150 years and 15 layers of paint from the old church.

Thomas has been on a feeding tube for the past three years, but he was determined to see the church restored, reported the Lonsdale Area News-Review.

Armed with his own key to the small chapel, Thomas found a 1860s interior still intact, complete with wooden pews and Christian statuary.,

"It's going to be beautiful," he exclaimed.

The neighbors were almost as excited as Thomas.

"One of the beads on my rosary is reserved for him," Blanche Zellmer, who has lived near the church for more than 90 years, told KARE.

But the restoration of the church wasn't the only miracle occurring in the rural Minnesota town. When he was done painting the exterior of the church, Thomas discovered that his cancer was in remission.

"It's what he's done for me," he says in the video, glancing toward a statue of Jesus, "and this is my way of saying thank you."

According to the Lonsdale Area News-Review, Thomas' dog, Jenny, a German shorthair pointer, wasn't as fortunate. She fought cancer right by her owner’s side -- a veterinarian removed a tumor -- but at the age of 11 died of complications from a heartworm about a year ago.

Thomas plans to continue his work on the church, moving on to the roof and the interior of the church next.

And even though he now has his own key, he still sits outside on the concrete steps to pray.

"There's been a lot of tears shed on these steps and they've been tears of joy, tears of pain, but tears of blessings too," says Thomas, as he wipes away new tears.

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Alma Sun
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posted November 18, 2012 11:48 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Alma Sun     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Yep, happy early Thanksgiving LL!

No meat for me this year. But it's okay though, never liked turkey anyway.

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Linda Jones
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posted November 20, 2012 09:44 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Linda Jones     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Only two days to go!!!

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juniperb
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posted November 21, 2012 11:58 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Thanksgivings
by Harriet Maxwell Converse


(*Translated from a traditional Iroquois prayer)


We who are here present thank the Great Spirit that we are here
to praise Him.
We thank Him that He has created men and women, and ordered
that these beings shall always be living to multiply the earth.
We thank Him for making the earth and giving these beings its products
to live on.
We thank Him for the water that comes out of the earth and runs
for our lands.
We thank Him for all the animals on the earth.
We thank Him for certain timbers that grow and have fluids coming
from them for us all.
We thank Him for the branches of the trees that grow shadows
for our shelter.
We thank Him for the beings that come from the west, the thunder
and lightning that water the earth.
We thank Him for the light which we call our oldest brother, the sun
that works for our good.
We thank Him for all the fruits that grow on the trees and vines.
We thank Him for his goodness in making the forests, and thank
all its trees.
We thank Him for the darkness that gives us rest, and for the kind Being
of the darkness that gives us light, the moon.
We thank Him for the bright spots in the skies that give us signs,
the stars.
We give Him thanks for our supporters, who had charge of our harvests.
We give thanks that the voice of the Great Spirit can still be heard
through the words of Ga-ne-o-di-o.
We thank the Great Spirit that we have the privilege of this pleasant
occasion.
We give thanks for the persons who can sing the Great Spirit's music,
and hope they will be privileged to continue in his faith.
We thank the Great Spirit for all the persons who perform the ceremonies
on this occasion.
http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19276

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AcousticGod
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posted November 21, 2012 01:34 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Cool story, LJ!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

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juniperb
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posted November 22, 2012 11:32 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for juniperb     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Turkey is roasting, pies cooling and the four leggeds guarding the oven.

The scents of Thanksgiving is almost as wonderful as the food and guests.

Today, please let us remember those not as fortunate as us.

Thanksgiving Blessings!

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posted November 22, 2012 02:07 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Faith     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
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Originally posted by juniperb:
Turkey is roasting, pies cooling and the four leggeds guarding the oven.

The scents of Thanksgiving is almost as wonderful as the food and guests.

Today, please let us remember those not as fortunate as us.

Thanksgiving Blessings!


Same! (Turkey roasting, pies cooling as I write )

Wishing the very best of everything to all of you.


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teasel
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posted November 22, 2012 04:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We aren't doing thanksgiving. I don't know why they expected anything different today.

Mum and sister refuse to acknowledge their own faults, and continue to pile shame onto me. Such fun, and something to really be thankful for!

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posted November 22, 2012 04:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for teasel     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
We aren't doing thanksgiving. I don't know why they expected anything different today.

Mum and sister refuse to acknowledge their own faults, and continue to pile shame onto me. Such fun, and something to really be thankful for!

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posted November 22, 2012 05:23 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Hugs teasel.

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posted November 22, 2012 05:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for T     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
i wasnt celebrating either, just doing the same old here.

A neighbor invited me over to her large family gathering, but i wasnt feeling well, so declined.

She brought me over a plate of delicious food and pup and I devoured it.

So nice She's a sweet person. Nice to have neighbors like her.

I hear kids screaming and laughing with adults at another neighbor's house. I think they are playing games outside. I'm enjoying the sounds of happy people. My life is so different than average people with families.....strange life indeed.

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