What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

[raptorbill]

I'm wondering what was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

 

[kenmyfam]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

Mine is having to work your thanksgiving here in Canada !!!!

 

[tashasdaddy]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

last year, a cruise out to the ocean and back, most beautiful day i have ever spent on the boat.

 

[thefairlaneman]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

One that stands out to me is the Thanksgiving day parade in 1967, As a senior in high school I had just got my first car,a 59 plymouth and recall listening to "the four tops"on my cars am radio as I and my new girlfriend and another couple rode uptown to see the parade.Those were the best of times.

 

[4JawChuck]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

Being allowed to drink as much "Baby Duck" wine as I wanted with my cousins while the adults played cards in the kitchen after dinner when I was 13. I believe we played downstairs and got really silly but that may have been a dream.

 

[dr_bowtie]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

mine is everyone leaving and me getting the day and house to myself....peace at last...booya

 

[DECK SWABBER 58]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

When I was still single me and my buddy Bill drank "fresh frozen peach daquiris" all day while the turkey gently smoked on the weber grill.

14 straight years. Not exactly straight though, sometime's we gently "slept" in the recliner's.

But we alway's woke up just in time for dinner.

 

[TilliamWe]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

I don't know that it's my favorite, but it's the one I always think of.

We were at my Aunt and cousins' house on Long Island, watching the Bears vs Lions, and the guy from the Bears returned the Overtime kickoff for a touchdown, for the fastest overtime win in NFL history.

 

[Bart Sr.]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

1973<><><>I came to Minnesota about a year before and had become friends with a co-worker named Gordy.After spending time off an on at his parents place (great people) during that summer they learned that I was from out of state (Georgia) and had no family here.

Anyway we were at the parents place a week or so before Thanksgiving and his mom asked what I had planned for the holiday.My response about eating out somewhere and TV at home alone was, to her,unacceptable.Her response was-"Why don't you come here and be with us??"

So there I was with 9 adults and 5 children and never once felt like an outsider or an intrusion in their world.It really makes me feel very special every time I think of those times.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

[JB]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

In 1993, after being scattered for most of the previous 20 years, all of my children and grandchildren gathered in Texas for the feast.

I think that was when my idea of immortality really solidified and the bonds that hold us all together strengthened.

 

[rogerwa]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

I'd have to say when I was a kid..

I would wake up and smell the turkey cooking. My mom would have all the good tableware out including the silver in the fancy wooden box in the closet. We would have the wine glasses from thier wedding and would get out the Mogen David concord grape wine that all of us would get some of.. She would use the lace tablecloths, the crystal serving dishes, etc.

My mom made it a special day and I could never figure out why we would be eating such a large fancy meal at like 2:00 in the afternoon.

 

[Bill Kilgore]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

In the early to mid 70's we would go to my great grandmother's house for Thanksgiving. It was about the only time of the year we would see relatives from out of town. With the abundant pine trees, epic pine cone fights would break out with all the "Houston Cousins". Some grudges would last year to year, especially if there were too many of the tight, green cones with a bunch of sap or weight or whatever made them heavy. Tons of fun. Great memories.

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

Last year - when it was all over.

 

[KRH1326]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

My inlaws retired & moved away and built a real nice mini mansion in Durant's Neck NC. It was on the Arberlmarl ( excuse spelling) Sound, in behind the Outer Banks.

We would go visit and stay with them for 2 weeks, encompassing Thanksgiving.

Their house was right on the sound with a dock and all.

EVERY SINGLE DAY went like this. Up before dawn, out in the 15' Carolina Skiff and catch all of the schoolie stripers ( The local folk call them rock fish, I think) I could handle. Back in by 11:00 am for a killer breakfast/ lunch and a nap. Back up at about 2:00 - 3:00 pm and hightail it over to some farm areas that I was given access to, for the afternoon deer hunt. Back home for dinner and bed after sunset.
Didn?t ever make the Thanksgiving Day evening hunt, though.

 

[Les Robb]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

In 1988 my son that was born almost 3 months premature and given less than a 50% chance to live was home for his first dinner with the family. The doctor's had said the absolute earliest would be Christmas and yet when we celebrated that night he was at home in his crib next to the table.

Tonight he is sitting on the couch arguing with me Mom & Grandma about mathematics and the difference between what we studied and he did in school. At 21, and a junior in mechanical engineering in college he figures at my age all we did was learn our tables by rote.

Yeah, he's miles ahead of me in math but his old dad still has gained a lifetime of experience in practical applications of mechanics.

May everyone have a safe and wonderful holiday season

Les Robb & Family

 

[eaglejim]

Re: What was your favorite Thanksgiving memory?

For me it was Thanksgiving at Grandmas house(almost every year) and since I don't care for turkey it was nice not to have to eat leftovers for the next week