Open Thread - Thurs 28 Nov 2024 - Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving!
It's Thanksgiving! Everyone should have a happy holiday and lots of good times and fun! I know some of us will be with a lot of people (Hi earthling1 
) and others, like me, will be with their partner and... well, I do have family around today. I have an adolescent dog, and some lovely goats, and some wonderful old cats and chickens!
Ohh and 'Shrooms, we have 'Shrooms!
We are definitely doing a special dinner for Thanksgiving (steaks instead of turkey and we'll do all the usual t-day fixings like stuffing and cranberry sauce. I know, I'm weird), even if it's only two of us, err, three sez Nikko, ummm, five if we include the cats. And they definitely want to be included. The goats are vegetarians, so they only get part of the meal; the chickens can have their left overs!
Nikko a week or so ago. He's eagerly awaiting Thanksgiving, or whatever as long as there is fun and food!
What are you doing for Thanksgiving? Whatever it is, hope it's great and thanks for stopping by! Have a great Thanksgiving and here's the open thread - remember, everything is interesting if you dive deep enough, so tell us about where you're diving!
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Happy Thanksgiving!
And Thursday!
I hope everyone is having a good holiday. And also feeling good and recovering as necessary (go UFS)! Enjoy the eats, the people, and the animals!
Let us know how it's going, what you are up to, and whatever if you get time away from celebrations today!
If you're poor now, my friend, then you'll stay poor.
These days, only the rich get given more. -- Martial book 5:81, c. AD 100 or so
Nothing ever changes -- Sima, c. AD 2020 or so
gobble gobble
hope y'all have a pleasant T-day
a little turkey trot
cheers!
I think elections should be audited
So Kamala's team always knew that she wasn’t going to beat Trump, but blew through the cash anyway….
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Sabrina Salvati's clip on Marianne Williamson's criticisms
of the Democratic Party is illuminating:
Marianne Williamson has all this advice for the Democratic Party. They need an intervention (4:21) and so on. The problem, of course, is that Democrats do not communicate, and so they won't listen to advice. Their pretenses of saying something are mere talking points (and, therefore, mere entertainment devices), and they don't listen so much as they accumulate and spend money. So the Dem rank and file needs to be told this: anything you may have gotten into your heads about being able to communicate with the leadership of your sacred party is only there -- in your heads.
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
sorry for the duplicate
“When there's no fight over programme, the election becomes a casting exercise. Trump's win is the unstoppable consequence of this situation.” - Jean-Luc Melanchon
They grow up so fast don’t they?
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Nikko is a handsome dawg, but he grew up too fast. I look at Sam’s puppy pictures and can’t believe how she grew out of puppyhood so quickly.
She approves of your choice for T day. We are having the same sans trimmings. Give Nikko a scritches from us.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
Hey Sima, Happy Thanksgiving.
We are having a mostly traditional meal on Friday, as we just asked a local family for dinner and they said yes for tomorrow. I needed the extra time anyways.
In Tuesday's OT by Earthling 1 I shared a cranberry recipe which I am just making and it turned out too bitter. Ok, now what? Well the answer is Maple Syrup. So I've added that to my bag of kitchen tricks. Interesting that we can get Maple syrup here in France no matter where we go. Those Canadians have some kind of marketing.
It's weird to go to stores this week, as everything is open and there is no holiday. But our little family (dad, mom and sub teen boy kid) is willing to give us a try. They are bringing Apero (tasty before dinner treats).
The mister of the family produces music of all kinds and in many technical ways. He asked if they could use our yard as a back drop for promotion of an album to be released. It was great fun. Here is the YT of the promo. We got to see how the sausage is made.
An email mon mari sent to family and friends:
A while back a local friend who manages a band out of Grenoble asked if he could use the platform we had built for the tent we used to live in. The video they made, for the band, Fuego de Rumba, natives of Spain but residents of Grenoble for 20 years, came out really good.
The lake, of course, is not at our house, but the viaduct is only two miles away. You might recognize our rugs from Hood River!
The guys in the band and the video crew were really nice. Click on the "Thumbs Up" button for them!
A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they know they shall never sit. Allegedly Greek, but more possibly fairly modern quote.
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Happy Thanksgiving, if you can make it so!
The gathering next door is drawing in family and friends. They all seem to like white autos. Three white trucks, two white SUVS. They have something in common.
If the aged dog, Shep, wanders over here, he will get a good snack of beef stew.
Thanks, Sima, and thanks for the Nikko pic!
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Hay. Happy T-Day. Thanks for the OT. Got mucho get-ready in
process and no nearby mushroom clouds, so good times for all, I guess, and back to work I go.
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Biden’s ceasefire for Lebanon is cover for Israel
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to 1) rearm itself in order to make war on Iran and 2) to increase the war on Syria using the terrorists that we use to overthrow Assad.
Israel was getting its buttocks handed to them in Lebanon and just before the ceasefire went into effect Israel increased their bombing of civilians in Beruit. .
So much for Biden’s promise to end the forever wars. Worst president in my lifetime!
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?