I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Hi Everyone ... hope you're enjoying the day.  The sun is shining and the temp is in the high 50's ... perfect for blowing leaves!

Tim got in this morning and my mom arrived shortly after.  We've made apple and cherry pies, got the stuffing made and the yams prepared.  Although Tim is the only one who likes the yams ... I've never made them before so I just mixed them up with some brown sugar, cinnamon and butter.  Tomorrow we'll make the green bean casserole and mashed potatoes.  Tim always cooks the bird.  He does a great job.

I love Thanksgiving.  My sister and her husband won't be here this year and I am so very sad about it.  I miss her a lot.

Well ... I need to get outside and start on the leaves.

hugs for everyone,

Bren

Like those hurricanes on that website Riley!

Doing a Happy Dance - YEAH, ME!  I got my Vitamin D3 up to 62.  And that's with NO DAIRY!!!!  YEAH, ME!  Went from taking 6,000 ius a day which got me to 48, to 8,000ius ( plus the 400 from multivitamin) to get to 62.  I really do feel SO much better, no join pain, MORE ENERGY!!!!  YEAH, Vitamin D3.

Back to our regular programming....STOP GOING TO THE PLACES WHERE YOU WILL ONLY GET UPSET. T'ain't worth it.

I want BOTH of them pardoned.  AND, isn't it wonderful, that we don' thave to be political anymore, we can be PATRIOTIC and say how much we respect, admire, support, encourage, the President of the United States and the BEST SECRETARY OF STATE the United States has ever had ( is it 2016 yet?)

Thanks to ALL of you for your friendship, encouragement, community, KINDNESS to each other, concern for humanity, and conscience about your place ( our place) in the world.

Lasagna - what time are you expecting us???????????????

Soleilfleures - Congrats on the Vitamin D3 level! It took me months to get mine to the 90s, but from day one of starting with supplementation I found that I no longer had body aches.

Since I just heard the Hallelujah Chorus on the radio, I decided to share a couple of trivia items with you (which some/all of you might already know).  Handel actually composed it for Easter, and yet we seem to only hear it/see it performed at Christmas.

Secondly, the audience is to stand for the Chorus.  When I was a little girl, our church organist always played it at the end of the Easter service and I used to think it was much too long!  Hah!  When I became an organist and played it, I thought it was too short!

Congrats to the President for pardoning BOTH Cobbler and Gobbler today!  Such a compassionate gentleman!

Lindasa -yes to both of your factoids about the Messiah. And re: the standing up part, many audiences mistakenly stand up just before the chorus begins - but George III stood up after it began because he was so moved. I remember going to performances in London as a child at the Royal Albert Hall. If the Queen was there, you had to wait until she stood up.

I'm so glad both were pardoned!

Mary

From what I've been reading re:VitaminD, it is STRONGLY suggested to keep it ABOVE 50, at the low end, and of course, 100 still at the top end.  I can only tell you from my own experience, that getting it ABOVE 50 seems to be the "magic" place for me to eliminate joint pain, feel more energy.  MAKE sure, if you're E+ that you're getting capsules in Rice Bran Oil - NOT soy ( probably gmo & estrogenic) oil.

Mary, me too! I wish every one would get a pardon. 

Here is a great picture show (if anyone says it is political, I will laugh):

http://www.whitehouse.gov/photos-and-video/photogallery/president-obamas-trip-asia?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Enjoy!

RR: Excellent photographer, too. I thought he really knew how to capture the spontaneous moments.

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Home from work and glad to hear Cobble and Gobbler will live on.  Loved that Cobbler went around singing "Your're So Vain".  Thanks Mr. President. 

I eat a lot things I really don't want to have to see in the flesh.  It just looks a lot more all right if it is laying in a dairy case at the supermarket.  I detest ( and we are on a truck route here ) driving past big semi-trailers full of cattle.  Meat pretty much is the smallest part of my diet overall.  I never learned how to enjoy huge portions.  Can't make the leap to none though I don't think. 

Anyway....as far as ye' ole' Christmas tree....our last few times with all the kitties around we had to take fishing line and tie the tree to the ceiling.  Never fun when you get up in the morning and the tree is in the floor and the cats are avoiding it like the black plague.  Anyway....we have a flat lighted one that hangs up on the wall now.  Most of the time we don't even bother eith that anymore.  It is just the two of us. 

I'm working tomorrow.....so it will be a ham steak with sweet potatoes, maybe green beans and some salad.  Simple, easy and no mess or stress.  I'll work for five hours anyway.....so the easier the better.

Yes...the neighbors were quiet.....but then they essentially started the thread so they could talk politics, so I expect they will have a harder time of it.  I hope they all have a fantastic Thanksgiving.

I'm truly thankful for everyone here and that I found such a wonderful place to share my enthusiasm for the Democratic side of life.  It was very rewarding and entertaining and I learned things so much easier than had I been watching t.v. and only getting my own perspective.  This is a wonderful place to be and easy on the heart and soul. 

Will be looking for ya'll later.  Going to have to do some work on this machine.....for some reason I think it needs a reboot....mighty slow.  See you all later.

Jackie

Blue - I laughed out loud, and I'm on a commuter train! Now everyone knows I'm strange!!!

Strange laughs are the best kind.