Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Lion's Roar

Lion's Roar

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

What are you thankful for today? I can't wait to ask my kids.. they always give the best answers.

I'm thankful for family, friends, health, life, trees, khukuries, trees that need to be trimmed with khukuries, martial arts, music, teachers, fresh air and clean water.

David
 
Good list, LR. I'll also add that I'm thankful for the community I live in. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
 
I'm thankful Bruise and his sock puppets have made up...it'd be a lonely Thanksgiving for him otherwise. ;)
 
I've a headache- I'm thankful it's not worse. I've a cold- I'm thankful it's not worse. The two older boys are yelling jubilantly as they wash potatoes for later. I'm thankful for that. Not sure just how yet.

Does anyone feed Bruise on Thanksgiving Day, or is does he just open a TV dinner?

The Colonal's Chicken- now that's a sad Thanksgiving.

I'm trying to recall if I ever just had a fifth of vodka for Thanksgiving. I don't know. But I do know I never had Thanksgiving overseas in a war. I'm thankful for those guys.

"Look at that Chicken." The Smaller says.
"It's not a Chicken." Their Mother tells them, 'it's a Turkey, and if you don't stop playing your're going to get bad germs all over you."

My boys pulled the gut bag out of the Turkey. "Ooooooohhhhhh. What's this?"
"Turkey guts." Their mother says
"Yaauuughh. Who would eat guts?"
"Lot's of people eat certain parts."
"Yuck. Good thing we don't eat the brain."
"Well, wouldn't be much there to dislike." I say.
'Where is the brain?" The Younger asks.
"It's not here- the head is cut off." My wife answers.
"It'd be tough to get that brain out." The Older says. "Good thing we don't have to look for the brain."

'Ok, here's the pile if you want it," She tells me.
'OK," I say, 'if I cook them will you add them to the gravy?"
"Yes."
"Then, in a minute I'll get up and cook them in a small pan."

I will of course be announcing a GUT ALERT during the meal.




munk
 
If the relatives knew I'd escaped to post on a knife forum, I wonder what they'd say... :D

Happy Thanksgiving, guys. Over the past couple months (since I've joined this forum) I've come to appreciate a LOT. You guys rock. I consider you my friends like any of my others, except you are probably a lot wiser.

So, I'm thankful for the Cantina.

I'm thankful for my personal saint, Uncle Bill. I hope he and Yangdu have a great Thanksgiving. They're both great people and I always wish them the best.

I went for a short hike today. Took the incense with me. Nog Champa is my weapon of choice. I sat down in the woods on a thick bed of fallen leaves next to a tree, stuck a knife in the soft ground, and lit the stick. As its aroma wafted upwards, I though about all I'm thankful for. You guys, my family, my other friends, the soldiers, everything. I sent my prayers to the infinite for all who have asked or not asked for smoke.

For a woman I know, who has lost two close friends this year, whose sister's breast cancer has come back, who broke her ankle badly, whose son had his knee totally destroyed in his last football game (the surgery yesterday to repair it went very poorly. Smoke to him.). Her life seems in shambles, but she still has a great family, her son sang at all-state last weekend, and her friends love her. Even in the darkest of hours, there is room to be thankful.

So, as my smoke rose to disperse to places unknown, I asked that all people in need find that for which they are thankful. As I eat my turkey today with my extended family, I will endeavor to do the same.

Life is good, guys. We need to see that more. We need to remember to smile. To take a break. To smell the smoke and know we're not alone.

Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

Be safe, happy, and well.

Yours,
Chris, aka Namaarie
 
munk said:
But I do know I never had Thanksgiving overseas in a war. I'm thankful for those guys.
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Yep. They're away from their families so we can be here with our families.
 
munk said:
...But I do know I never had Thanksgiving overseas in a war. I'm thankful for those guys.
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It's just like Christmas, or your birthday, or saturday...all pretty much the same. I'm thankful it's their turn...
 
Thankful for the people in my life.

My relatives could have been worse, for the most part. Some of them by not very much, though.

But my brothers ( Bill Martino, Yvsa, Munk, and others ) and trusted friends, too many to name ( John Powell - no, he's family too, Nasty, the same ) Lion's Roar - he's a cousin... thus it goes.
 
Happy Thanksgiving again!!

My relatives came over, and we feasted. It was great. I feel like an engoarged tick or one of those ladies from a gas-x commercial. I mean that, of course, in a good way. It's the kind of satisfied full that makes one want to fall asleep watching sports on TV.

Good day, guys. I've got a lot to give thanks for. We all do, and we just have to remember that.

Sleep well friends. Hope you all had good days and are as full as I am.

Chris
 
Yup, Happy Thanksgiving Again!!!!:D We had a wonderful day. We invited our Sweatlodge family over and a great time was had by all!. There was nine of us, ten if you count the dog.;) I think Ace got as much to eat as everyone else did with everyone slipping him goodies from their plates.
Ace is a much improved dog than he was this time last year. It's wonderful for every being too have a family!
But the dinner was just a meal except that it had more of a celebritory feel which it was of course.:D
What was really important was the gathering of family and friends! Polly lost her mother earlier this year and wasn't in any mood to cook. Mary Ann is alone here in Oklahoma with all of her bio family out of state. It was wonderful that we could all get together for something besides a Sweatlodge!

And we got a call Wednesday afternoon that our new Camry is here.:cool: They wanted us to come and get it that night but you can't judge anything about a car in the dark, or at least not as much as you can in the daylight so we decide to wait until today.
Thankfully it is supposed to be pretty today with temps in the mid 60's and mostly sunny. A welcome relief too all the rain and dreary days we've had lately!!!!:D
That has too be the shortest six to eight weeks I've ever seen, the time quoted to get our new car here.
I know they always tell you longer but I'm really surprised as it's only been a couple of weeks or just a few days over!
Looking forward to the new car but not the payments.:grumpy:
A couple of nice surprises has came along with our new Camry however.
The tax, title, and tags aren't going to be as much as we expected and even more surprising is that our car insurance is going to be quite a lot cheaper!!!!:eek:
About $300.00 cheaper in fact!!!!
An alarm, good crash test rating, and ABS brakes really brings the rates down I guess!!!!:cool: :D :grumpy:
 
did you finally pick the 4 or 6 cylinder?



just curious. Hope you have a blast.

It's the day after Thanksgiving here and the snow is flying. I started a fire in the Wood burning stove. I chomped a log down to size by removing the limb stubbs with a 20" AK villager. I could just barely squeeze her in the box and built the fire around and on top. Not supposed to do it like that, but if it works...

We lived in So Ca, following Aerospace for work, and I don't know why but one of the things Dad taught me was how to build a fire. In So Ca. Sheesh. You know- just in case the temp dips below 32 all ten days a year.


munk
 
munk said:
did you finally pick the 4 or 6 cylinder?

just curious. Hope you have a blast.

munk
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After much soul searching I decided on the 4 cyl. The thought of getting 34 mpg compared to 29-30 mpg kept getting through as I know gas ain't gonna be getting cheaper from here on out.
And 160 horses is 10 more than we've got now.:)
I did some checking on some of the old cars I had that ran pretty decent and was surprised to learn they had from 93 to 106 horses with the 6 cyl Ford being the highest and out of 215 ci I think it was.:eek:
It's hard to believe that they can get 160 horses out of 146.5 cubic inches/2.4 liters these days ainnit?:eek:
And to top it all off get as much as 300,000 miles as well.
They sure enough don't make cars the way they used too and I for one sure:D :cool: :D am glad!
A friend of ours has a little home built kit car with a 4 cyl with over 400 horsepower! Absolutely unbelieveable. Has to run high octane av fuel though and keeping it in tune is a bitch!!!!
He used to have a Lotus, Elan I think it was. I wanted to drive it but he would never let me.;) :(
 
I drove 4 cylinders all my life until recently. Well, our little Honda has four, so I still do. Four will get tired. But four will get you there. Four is a heck of a lot better than four was 30 years ago.

I remember VW vans.....

I think you made a good choice. My parents drive a four cylinder toyota something= Camri, not sure what-which. It has almost 200 thousand miles on it. I prefer more power, but for most applications, the four does the speed you need.


munk
 
I have 4 cylinders...on each side. Of course, I think my Avalanche weighs about 6500 pounds.

My gas milage is...well, did I tell you the Av is black? ;)
 
My Ramcharger had a 440 in it. I did a retro fit from the small block. It gave up the ghost and now sits on my property- a Montana lawn ornament. The Dakota has Dodge's new 4.7 liter V8

We need another vehicle though, for snow ins. Beater Truck is a 71 Ford with a 390, but it aint going to the hospital in an emergency, it's strictly for wood hauling.


munk
 
Nasty said:
My gas milage is...well, did I tell you the Av is black? ;)
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That's the one problem with horses, if you got a lot of 'em it costs more too feed 'em, but boy are they fun!!!!
I drove the 225 horse 6 cyl. Camry It was fun, but no doubt not as much fun as Rob's brand new 270 horse Acura.;) :D
Actually it was after I drove the six that I did all the soul searching.
I guess the little bit of Scot's blood I have won out.:rolleyes: ;)

Edit:
All ready to go and get it, just giving the sales lady time to settle down after she gets there. I think they're disappointed that we're not gonna finance with them.:D
 
Yvsa said:
...A friend of ours has a little home built kit car with a 4 cyl with over 400 horsepower!...(
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When I was a kid, my dream was to get a kit car. It wasn't exactly in the same category as what your friend has. It carried two passengers, ran off a 6 or 9 HP one cylinder engine, and was called a King Midget. Today it would be probably be called a fancy go cart. Here's a couple of pictures:
http://home.pacbell.net/ptg701/pics/KM.jpg
 
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