I am at home today, baking up a storm for our Thanksgiving meal. There are four pumpkin pies in the oven and apple pies waiting to go in. I am truly blessed, and I am thankful that I have enough to share with friends and relatives. Each of us finds ourselves in a different position, each of us in a different area of the world. But, today, I want to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving wherever you are. We can all find something to be thankful for. Please share, if nothing more than a pleasant greeting to someone this week. Sometimes the thing that makes a difference to someone is nothing more than a smile, shared on a street between complete strangers.

Yes. Although tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the USA, I hope that our friends around the world can appreciate and understand the spirit behind the holiday. We all have reasons to be thankful, especially me.

For instance, thanks to all who visit the Cove!

Whoever you are, wherever you are, here's hoping you have a great day!

As a UK based Cover may I pass on my best wishes for Thanksgiving Day. As you probably know, we don't celebrate it ourselves (more's the pity) - the nearest we get is Harvest Festival but it not celebrated in as big a way.

Have a great day and don't eat too much!

This has been a difficult year for me and my sisters. This will be our first Thanksgiving without our mother, and we miss her sorely. But, we will carry on something that she started when we were teens and enjoy each other's company and that of those with whom we will share the holiday. I am deeply thankful for my family, for without them, this year would have been impossible for me to survive.

I hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving, no matter where in the world you may be, has a wonderful day! :)

Happy Thanksgiving to all and remember to thank a Farmer for the feast that you have!!

My best wishes for the Thanksgiving Day!

This has been a difficult year for me and my sisters. This will be our first Thanksgiving without our mother, and we miss her sorely. But, we will carry on something that she started when we were teens and enjoy each other's company and that of those with whom we will share the holiday. I am deeply thankful for my family, for without them, this year would have been impossible for me to survive.


GStough I share your sentiments.. having lost my loved one too. but as your handle implies "G is tough".. and with people around we survive..

Our thanksgiving was a month earlier.. I guess it took the settler a month to get down to the states.. :notme: There must be some reasoning for this?
Happy Thanksgiving.. Sooooo much indeed to be thankful for....

A very happy Thanksgiving to all. Remember, no matter how bad off you are, there's always somebody worse off, except for the last guy.

This has been a difficult year for me and my sisters. This will be our first Thanksgiving without our mother, and we miss her sorely. But, we will carry on something that she started when we were teens and enjoy each other's company and that of those with whom we will share the holiday. I am deeply thankful for my family, for without them, this year would have been impossible for me to survive.

I hope everyone who celebrates Thanksgiving, no matter where in the world you may be, has a wonderful day! :)

very similar...first Thanksgiving without one of my older brothers. Last year he sat next to me, his breathing irregular...something I'll never forget. 3 weeks later, he was gone. We too will carry on the tradition as best we can. Give Thanks and be thankful. Wishing all the Cover's a Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all!!!

I too, have been home all day - cooking and baking - so tommorrow I can throw the bird in the oven and put up my feet.

Sieze the day!!! Love and laugh - be thankful for what you have - celebrate those who are no longer with us - and eat till ya bust!

Happy Thanksgiving to all from us at this part of the world.

One favourite motto from my service group is "Give and you shall be rewarded with more". I guess that pretty summaries the situation everywhere.

Hi guys,

Happy ThanksGiving to you all!!:D

Happy thanksgiving to everyone in the US of A.

For you folks in other countries our (American) history of Thanksgiving goes back to Europe (primarily England). As a national holiday here in the US the tradition started during our Civil War in the 1860's. I've attached a small piece below for your reading.

Lincoln and the Civil War
In the middle of the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln, prompted by a series of editorials written by Sarah Josepha Hale, proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated on the final Thursday in November 1863:

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequalled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years, with large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy.

It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to his tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth."

Proclamation of President Abraham Lincoln, 3 October 1863.


Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.

Happy Thanksgiving to all from Europe.

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