Memorable Thanksgiving Stories and Memories!

[piemma]

Lost my Dad and Mom a year apart in 95 and 96. Think about them a lot at this time of year.

[FishermanTim]

My dad passed in 2001 and his 2 brothers passed in the years since.
(The youger of the two was my godfather, and the joke was that I looked and acted more like him than my dad)
Well the sole surviving member of my dad's family is his sister, my aunt, who had a total hysterectomy a year or so back and recently had a double mastectomy. She had done both chemo and radiation treatments and seems to be doing quite well, physically as well as mentally. Of course she lost her hair from the treatments, and found that without her hair she was the spitting image of my dad before he passed.

Needless to say her hair is starting to grow back now, but when she showed this to my brothers and sisters they started crying because she literally was his spitting image!

My mother (the saint) and I had already seen this when visiting her in the rehab hospital, so we weren't as shocked.

Hopefully we all have had many cherished moments with family and friends, so that we will enjoy the holidays more fully!

[Raven]

@ the dinner Table
my mother and father would constantly REMIND us about not spilling our Milk

seems like every other night one kiddo or the other would clumsily knock over
their milk causing a big ruckus and post pone my mum's turn to finally sit down
at the table (had to clean it up) and actually EAT WITH us.

WELL, this ONE Night she seemed a little different (spooky quiet) and we all sensed that something was gonna happen and it wasn't good.

Then Without Warning Mum comes over to the table and KNOCKS her full glass
of Milk Over ON PURPOSE ..... Saying in a most menacing VOICE with ABSOLUTE authority ! "I'LL BE THE ONE SPILLING THE MILK TONIGHT !"

AFTER that night we all did a MUCH better job of not spilling our Milk.

[Nebe]

Hats off to that guy. Brain not braun.
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[Slipknot]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Hats off to that guy. Brain not braun.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

is this supposed to be a reply to the stonehenge thread or something?

[SAUERKRAUT]

I hadn't seen my brother since March. He lives on the New Jersey Shore, where we grew up. He lives alone; so, the Mrs. sent me down there so he wouldn't be. We beach fished from 6 AM dawn to 5 PM dark. We were entertained by on and off by genuine peanut bunker blitzes all day. It was fun chasing after them, and with my brother... reminding us of an earlier era.

Nothing big; but we were in the running. About 22 fish between us up to 32 inches. All this was unexpected; but we were not going to leave fish and fishing. Throughout the day, we grazed on a box of Famous Amos chocolate chip cookies I had in the truck. That was our shared Thanksgiving dinner! We were too tired, cold, wet and dirty to bother going out to pig out.

[BigFish]

Thats an awesome story Allan......sounds like a perfect Thanksgiving! Thanks for sharing!

[FishermanTim]

That's the ticket!

It's not the food, but rather the company and memories that we all enjoy. Those that have passed may not be present, but thy are a presence you cannot forget!

My fear when I was younger was that I would be just another blip on the map, but I found that just being myself I have made lots of friends and touched many lives without knowing it.

Here are a few things I live by:

"Make you life an exclamation and not an explanation!"

"A person is not truly alone if they have friends and are a friend to others."

"You cannot have too many friends, but you can have too many enemies."

Enjoy the holiday season!

[JohnR]

Best of days SK!