Nobody is here as you are all having dinner. I want some turkey. hand it over!   :)

Greetings,

I'm very thankful for you and the others here at ALK, LR!
You have changed my life, and all for the better!
Many gracies!
( The US is having a holiday today, dear friends across the ponds.
We give thanks for our blessings and watch football  ;).  )

Love, Bets

Bets, that was more yummie than a turkey gizard. thanks dear, but why would anyone want to watch men with big shoulders running into each other trying to get a ball? :-/

oh I see. its good exercise.  :)

No Thanksgiving Day over here, no turkey  :( and no football  :D !

Spooky

hey do you guys over in Germany put up a tree on Christmas? what other holidays might you have that we don't? just making small talk, don't answer Spooky if you don't want.

btw, my girls will bring me some din din from san diego tomorrow. they are so silly :D

I wasn't sure if you were wishing us a happy "Turkey Day" or saying that it was "Happy Turkey" day -- on relfection I guess it's not the second one!!

No, no Thanksgiving in France, or the UK. Hope you guys are having a nice one.

Hi aylsia We dont have thanksgiving day in England but we do have a turkey at christmas and in the summer in July where i live ,we have The Rosefair,which is floats and markets and singing and flower arrangments in St Peter and Pauls church,the markets sale craft work .strawberrys and cream teas in the church gardens,this is held every year.

Love and God bless  Love juditha

Actually Alysia I think the Germans practically invented Christmas trees - I seem to remember reading that Prince Albert (Queen Victoria's wife) brought the idea to Britian from his native Germany. Not 100% if that is true though, or when they came to the USA.

Festivals that we have in the UK but you don't have in the US would include Bonfire Night (aka Guy Fawkes Night) on November 5 - must be others too. That is in memory of an attempt to blow up the king and parliament in 1605, by Catholic rebels (they were caught as they were just about to light the touch paper on many barrels of gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament which would have blown the king and all the most senior nobles sky high; and they were hanged for it. When you look at how Catholics were treated in those days, though, you can kind of see their point. However, by tradition we have a big bonfire on which an effigy of Guy Fawkes in burned and we have fireworks and hot soup and hotdogs and toffee apples and stuff like that. The Guy burning bit is not very important these days, it is just a family fun thing.

In France, where I live now, different festivals include the national holiday on July 14, which is the day when the French revolution started. There are also various quirky traditions - some only in certain regions - associated with different saints. For example, on November 11, in parts of France they celebrate Saint Martin's Day. Legend has it he was evangelising in the North-east of France, and it was night-time and he lost his donkey. The local children went out with lanterns to help him find it and when they found it, he rewarded them by miraculously turning its droppings into cakes for them!! They still have processions of children with paper lanterns in memory of this alleged miracle (sorry to be skeptical  ;D )

I often pondered about if turkeys have an afterlife or any other afterlife knowledge. Perhaps some PE in this direction might answer this most important question.
Joe ;)

LOL   Wonder if anyone here remembers being one!?

Never been called a turkey but have been called an Ass a few times.
Joe

thanks for a break from intellectual stuff guys...
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quote Alysia: "hey do you guys over in Germany put up a tree on Christmas?"

Nah, we go out and fight the local dragons, bind them and take them in our caves to have a good lighting  :D .  

 I have heard that too what Orlando said, that the practice with Christmas trees comes from Germany, and many people her will have one, including my parents, and I will assist with decoration.

Spooky