Thanksgiving 2023 Thread

[SolidSnake84]

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THIS x100! I live for this stuff on Thanksgiving Day. I've even had it with Rudolph Day Dinner, and we had it once for Halfway to Thanksgiving. Even more so than a turkey or a picture of stuffing, if there was just ONE thing that I could truly pick as the official "image" of Thanksgiving, it would honestly be this sauce. No joke.

 

[SolidSnake84]

My answer is very easily "D". There is nothing about Winter that I prefer over Autumn. Christmas happens at the very beginning of winter, and that is basically the only great thing about winter other than when it snows. When Christmas is over and there is no snow, It just feels long and brutal. No other month quite seems to drag like January, IMO.

Have a great day!

 

[Irish75]

D. That is any easy one. I am curious to see if anyone else picks anything but D in here. My guess is all will pick D.

 

[SnowflakeMom]

D for me too!!

 

[Rich]

The pressure is on for me to pick D. But I miss the snow so much. "A" is really tugging at my heart. But no, I like everything about Autumn more than a little snow. My answer is D!

 

[LadyLynn]

Yup, no matter the good things about winter--snow, Christmas, quietness and coziness--it still doesn't outvote D.

 

[DecemberisComing]

The pressure is on for me to pick D. But I miss the snow so much. "A" is really tugging at my heart. But no, I like everything about Autumn more than a little snow. My answer is D!

Yup, no matter the good things about winter--snow, Christmas, quietness and coziness--it still doesn't outvote D.

I would miss snow too, but it can definitely overstay it's welcome. And I feel the exact same way about snow, Christmas, quietness and coziness.

 

[Christmaswarlock]

I like some snow just to ride..I didnt send our snowmobiles west due to thinking we would get snow before the migration...garage is full of sleds and not 1 foot of milage this year...its so disgusting.

 

[Edge612]

The pressure is on for me to pick D. But I miss the snow so much. "A" is really tugging at my heart. But no, I like everything about Autumn more than a little snow. My answer is D!

You had us all in suspense!

 

[Edge612]

I like some snow just to ride..I didnt send our snowmobiles west due to thinking we would get snow before the migration...garage is full of sleds and not 1 foot of milage this year...its so disgusting.

Sounds it!

 

[LadyLynn]

I like some snow just to ride..I didnt send our snowmobiles west due to thinking we would get snow before the migration...garage is full of sleds and not 1 foot of milage this year...its so disgusting.

Here in the west, we have had enough snow for a dozen garages full of sleds.

 

[The_Escalation]

Okay, hear me out:

I love and adore autumn. It will always be my favorite season. Everything about it is wonderful and great and magical.

But I would love to just see some snow. Like, just once a year. I don't think it's asking too much. Just a few inches of nice, powdery snow maybe one or two days a year, just long enough for me my kids to go outside and play in it and build a snowman and all of the other fun snow activities that some of us were deprived of as kids.

I'm voting "A," and I don't regret it.

 

[Edge612]

DAYS TILL THANKSGIVING: 308
DAYS TILL NOVEMBER: 286
DAYS TILL THE BERS: 225

Happy Winter Day! Today folks we have 308 days left until Thanksgiving, 286 days to go until November, and 225 days remaining until The Bers. Our next milestones will be 1 week from today when we reach Tom Turkey Day #2 and the very next day we’ll reach the very significant 300-Day Marker Till Thanksgiving. We move along here in out Winter Wonderland even if it’s not very snowy out where you are with our weekly top rated featured “Thanksgiving Thought Thursday.”

The one holiday that I compare to Thanksgiving the most is not Christmas or Halloween. It’s 4th of July. Why? Because I feel like Thanksgiving is the peak of autumn while 4th of July is the peak of summer. They both are about great food (turkey feast vs. a barbecue) and great traditions/celebrations (football & parade vs. fireworks & a hot dog eating contest). They’re both simple and pure fun. And I love them both.

I always say 4th of July is my #1 Non-Bers day of the year. And it is. I think that I have to put Thanksgiving of course as my #1 day overall of the year. So they both are ranked # in a way. No matter what I hope you give your feedback today on your feelings on the Thanksgiving Thought or even give your own original one. Have a great Winter Day!​

 

[cgmcav]

DAYS TILL THANKSGIVING: 308
DAYS TILL NOVEMBER: 286
DAYS TILL THE BERS: 225

Happy Winter Day! Today folks we have 308 days left until Thanksgiving, 286 days to go until November, and 225 days remaining until The Bers. Our next milestones will be 1 week from today when we reach Tom Turkey Day #2 and the very next day we’ll reach the very significant 300-Day Marker Till Thanksgiving. We move along here in out Winter Wonderland even if it’s not very snowy out where you are with our weekly top rated featured “Thanksgiving Thought Thursday.”

The one holiday that I compare to Thanksgiving the most is not Christmas or Halloween. It’s 4th of July. Why? Because I feel like Thanksgiving is the peak of autumn while 4th of July is the peak of summer. They both are about great food (turkey feast vs. a barbecue) and great traditions/celebrations (football & parade vs. fireworks & a hot dog eating contest). They’re both simple and pure fun. And I love them both.

I always say 4th of July is my #1 Non-Bers day of the year. And it is. I think that I have to put Thanksgiving of course as my #1 day overall of the year. So they both are ranked # in a way. No matter what I hope you give your feedback today on your feelings on the Thanksgiving Thought or even give your own original one. Have a great Winter Day!​

I'm with you. I always enjoy a good 4th of July. Always brings back great memories, too. Waaay back in the 70s when we drove covered wagons the local Knights of Columbus would setup their rickety Red Devil Fireworks fundraiser stand. As I could I couldn't buy any but I'd go bother them nonetheless. I'd read the little flyer/newspaper and ask them questions. Then I'd take the flyer home and tell my dad what I wanted. They were all super cheap driveway fireworks but I loved 'em. And yeah, just like Thanksgiving there was always tons of food and family around. Usually buckets of KFC and a swimming pool were involved.

Nice Red Devil flyer:

 

[cgmcav]

(Is there no edit function on this thing? I just wrote a real slop-fest! Pardon my typos...)

 

[SolidSnake84]

Okay, hear me out:

I love and adore autumn. It will always be my favorite season. Everything about it is wonderful and great and magical.

But I would love to just see some snow. Like, just once a year. I don't think it's asking too much. Just a few inches of nice, powdery snow maybe one or two days a year, just long enough for me my kids to go outside and play in it and build a snowman and all of the other fun snow activities that some of us were deprived of as kids.

I'm voting "A," and I don't regret it.

I live near the mountains, and even at the very northern part of VA almost into WV, we usually get one or two "good" snows a year. More than anything else we get sleet and freezing rain. We usually get one big measurable snow around the middle of February, and then that's it for the winter. There's a handful of times each year where we get a coating or a dusting. Last year around / on Easter weekend, it actually snowed 6 inches! That was one of the only times in my life I could remember having a big snow like that in April.

 

[SolidSnake84]

I like the comparisons between July 4th and Thanksgiving Day. In my mind, and in my opinion, and maybe just me, but I look at July 4th as "Summer's Going Away Party". July 4th is usually around the hottest time of the year, and just a few weeks later the temps here peak and start slightly receding, as we get into August a.k.a. FALL PRE-SEASON. Those two weeks of August around here is some pretty fine weather. Cool nights and warm, but not HOT days.

And Thanksgiving, to me, is like the grand holiday / signature event of "The Bers". I get it, I know that we have one full month of "Bers" after Thanksgiving still, but in my mind, The Bers really "end" on Thanksgiving night. After that Christmas takes 100% full force for most people.

Have a great day!

 

[Irish75]

For me 4th of July and Thanksgiving are actually kind of opposites. They just have two totally different vibes. Sure there are comparisons but for me I am in two totally different places mentally.

Christmas is still the closest comparison to Thanksgiving for me.

4th of July kind of stands alone to me. It is the big holiday of the Summer trio (memorial, 4th, and Labor). There is not much else I compare it too. Memorial and Labor day are like mini 4ths of July but definitely don't have the same bang to it. As much as I hate heat and humidity, 4th of July is one of the reasons I still love summer.

 

[Christmaswarlock]

Happy Rainfest Thursday!! Been raining for 7 hours now and no end till late tonite. Youngest girl was on the porch floating a rubber duck on the sidewalk today in her shiny boots.

 

[LadyLynn]

I know I have mentioned this before, but when I think of the 4th of July, I think snow. Growing up, we would always spend the day in the mountains. My dad's favorite destination was Snow's Lake. It was fed by what was a very small glacier and our tradition was to play in the snow and have a snowball fight in between fishing. My dad always buried the watermelon in the snow so it would be icy cold delicious. More than one year, we spent a lot of time trying to find where he put it because somehow the marker got moved. And if you were a patient fisher, this was the place to fish. The Fish and Game didn't stock this lake so the trout in it were all Native Brown and they were the size that lore is made of.