Happy Thanksgiving!
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Happy Thanksgiving to you Dale also!
What a great day this has been the weather is perfect and I managed not to burn anything! We even had a phone call from our daughter that also had a pretty good thanksgiving ever seas.
What a great day this has been the weather is perfect and I managed not to burn anything! We even had a phone call from our daughter that also had a pretty good thanksgiving ever seas.
Among the things I am thankful for is the connection to expediters EO and especially the Open Forum provides. Thank you, Dale for the good work you do keeping the Open Forum on the up and up. Expediting continues to be a great life and work for many. The EO community makes it more so.
Happy Thanksgiving Davekc,Lawrence, Jaminjim,Turtle,Leo, Moot, Greg, Teamcaffe, CoCo, Mike, Cindy, Phil, Diane, Dale and to everyone that is out on the road away from your family. Be safe out there.
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Wingnut
Seasoned Expediter
We had a wonderful thanksgiving today. I had a large turnout for dinner and everyone had a great time. I'm thankful that my dad is still here with us (he recently had a massive stroke) and thankful that I was able to bring a little joy in some people's life today. I have been truely blessed!!
CharlesD
Expert Expediter
For those who don't know, I am married to a Kenyan. Today we celebrated Thanksgiving with a house full of Kenyans, most of them Luo, the same tribe as my wife and our new President elect. For the most part, it was a typical Thanksgiving, except that the food was a mix of American and Kenyan food, mostly Kenyan since I was the only American present.
For most of the afternoon it was like any other Thanksgiving; we cooked a lot of food, prayed over the meal, ate way too much, watched football until the games got lopsided, and socialized...while the children retired to the basement for quality time with the Playstation. Most of the time people were in small groups talking, mostly about things going on in Africa, which left me somewhat out of the loop, but eventually all of the adults ended up around the living room and one of them spoke up.
He said, "I know this is an American holiday, but the truth is that we all have a lot to be thankful for. We are all in this great country and we can take advantage of the opportunities that America has to offer. I think we should thank God for that."
The whole point of this holiday hit me at that point. Here I had been eating too much food and complaining that the football games were lopsided and not interesting, and then this man who came here from another country stands up and earnestly says that he thanks God for the ability to be here. I became more thankful at that moment myself, glad to not only have a lot of food and friends to spend a day with, but thankful for the opportunities that have been afforded me in this country. I guess viewing America through the eyes of a foreigner made me even more grateful for what I have and where I live. We truly have a lot to be thankful for.
For most of the afternoon it was like any other Thanksgiving; we cooked a lot of food, prayed over the meal, ate way too much, watched football until the games got lopsided, and socialized...while the children retired to the basement for quality time with the Playstation. Most of the time people were in small groups talking, mostly about things going on in Africa, which left me somewhat out of the loop, but eventually all of the adults ended up around the living room and one of them spoke up.
He said, "I know this is an American holiday, but the truth is that we all have a lot to be thankful for. We are all in this great country and we can take advantage of the opportunities that America has to offer. I think we should thank God for that."
The whole point of this holiday hit me at that point. Here I had been eating too much food and complaining that the football games were lopsided and not interesting, and then this man who came here from another country stands up and earnestly says that he thanks God for the ability to be here. I became more thankful at that moment myself, glad to not only have a lot of food and friends to spend a day with, but thankful for the opportunities that have been afforded me in this country. I guess viewing America through the eyes of a foreigner made me even more grateful for what I have and where I live. We truly have a lot to be thankful for.
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RLENT
Veteran Expediter
Outstanding post Charles - made my day.
While I was not able to make the festivities at my oldest son's house down in Columbus and enjoy his Indonesian wife's deep-fried turkey (woulda been a first for me) or get to visit with her parents (who live with them), I did manage to get a load late yesterday from the east coast where I was, to going to Michigan for Monday - so I was at least able to make it home by early evening today and enjoy the simple pleasure of stretching out on my own couch .... so that the two cats had a warm place to lay (on me)
Many thanks to Loading Planning/Dispatch, once again they come thru.
You know, it just may be that the true hope of this country is not those of us that were born here, but those that have come here, and perhaps a have greater recognition and appreciation of what we do have ......
While I was not able to make the festivities at my oldest son's house down in Columbus and enjoy his Indonesian wife's deep-fried turkey (woulda been a first for me) or get to visit with her parents (who live with them), I did manage to get a load late yesterday from the east coast where I was, to going to Michigan for Monday - so I was at least able to make it home by early evening today and enjoy the simple pleasure of stretching out on my own couch .... so that the two cats had a warm place to lay (on me
)Many thanks to Loading Planning/Dispatch, once again they come thru.
You know, it just may be that the true hope of this country is not those of us that were born here, but those that have come here, and perhaps a have greater recognition and appreciation of what we do have ......
nightcreacher
Veteran Expediter
If your reading this then you made it thru stuffing your bellies on thanksgiving,you know, besides watching football,thats what we do on thanksgiving,and giving thanks for all we have or are about to get.Hope all had a wanderfull day,and, there are 27 days til christmas,thats a week before new years
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Do you feel heavier after your Thanksgiving dinner? If you don’t, be thankful you were able to restrain the urge to overindulge. If you do, just thank the Lord that we live in a nation of plenty. Much of the rest of the world lives in extreme poverty and, although our economy has taken a hit in the last couple months, there is no reason for anyone in this great nation of ours to go to bed hungry. On the contrary, even the folks on welfare in the USA have more of a problem with obesity than they do with hunger.
Now lets get rolling and make some bucks!
Now lets get rolling and make some bucks!