Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours DU~
I mean this from the bottom of my heart.
This will be a tough one for my family. Last year my BIL died in the early morning hours. So yes, we will laugh and cry and salute him with some good old Irish whiskey.
However this is not about his death, it is what I am thankful for. It is about a strong family unit and wonderfully loving friends. They take your back and hug you hard when you most need it. We have always pulled together.
We all have only so many years in this life. I am trying to make the best I can of all of them. I try to pay it forward when I have no money to do that. We had a stupid feel good exercise at one of our work meetings. Ha! They stuck a paper plate to our backs and said write something that made you feel good about this person. One of my coworkers said, she feeds me. Yes I do try to bring him food when I cook, the reason I am able to cook is because my sister gives me gift cards to the local market on a monthly basis. So I share.
I have great nephews and niece, a new one on the way. I want to leave this place better for them. I want that and am doing it the best way I know how.
To quote a movie, "I will not go quietly into the night".
I have made some good friends here at DU, love you.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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For me, it's going to be hard work. Cooking all day, both a Thanksgiving brunch and Thanksgiving dinner. Did all the grocery shopping last night and I'm ready for it! Haha!
Yes, it's one of the longest hardest dinners to make, but I do it with love. Good thing no one likes stuffing, though!
The brunch is a bit longer since some like pancakes, all like freshly baked croissants, and some want toast and pancakes. Some like bacon and some like sausage, and some want both. lol
I have to deck the table twice tomorrow, too.
Family and friends want to wake up to a nicely decked table ready to pull up their chairs and chow down. So I'll be cooking breakfast at about 8 a.m. PST. in order to have everything ready by 10. If you're awake around then, think about little ol' me here in cold but sunny SoCal?
I sure will be thinking of you. 
I always hated stuffing. Yuck!
That year I made a vegan stuffing. It was okay. The diehards were not happy. Yet they love my baby niece. Baby, lol, 28 years old.
I cannot believe you are doing two in a day!!!! You are amazing.
I will indeed be thinking of you this Thanksgiving. Love and hugs to you and yours.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Happy TG to old friends, new friends, all DU friends!
Enjoy the time with family, friends and loved ones.
you!
I will do it for all I hold dear, that will include you SunSeeker.
This little shack is in our back yard (actually it has been there in one form or another since the year 973, and that is NOT missing a digit!). My immediate superior was in town on Thursday, and so we and our wives had dinner in a restaurant that is in one of the towers. The rest is now divided up between an architect's studio, some small horse stables and a small venue for the performing arts with a tiny apartment attached so that visiting musicians can stay stress-free and rehearse without having to travel back and forth. A family of peacocks lives in the courtyard during the summer. Most visitors find it pleasant unless the weather is lousy, and the weather is only lousy maybe 75% of the time--some years only 65% LOL!!
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And remember to save room for the pumpkin pie or whatever yummy dessert makes it to your table. (am I the only one here who thinks that the dinner should start with dessert?) Anyway, have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
Start with the pie!!!
Love to you and yours!
Going to have to put up with the GOP uncle for Turkey Day. 
Hopefully he will keep his yap shut. I will be focusing on eating cranberry and stuffing until I pass out.
I know you are thankful today for what you have...a new nephew or niece on the way is really special.
Have a great day, sheshe! Your DU friends love you.
