FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving 2016! ~ 24 November 2016

Serving The Best Troops and Veterans In The World !! | The Canteen Crew

[Kathy in Alaska]

~ The FReeper Canteen Presents ~

~ Happy Thanksgiving 2016!! ~

GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE

Canteen Mission Statement

Showing support and boosting the morale of
our military and our allies' military
and family members of the above.
Honoring those who have served before.

Abraham Lincoln's Thanksgiving Proclamation

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

By the President of the United States of America.

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 unequaled 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 has 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 consiousness 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 one 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, tranquillity 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 Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

Please remember that The Canteen is here to support
and entertain our troops and veterans and their families,
and is family friendly.

[mylife]

I kinda normal

Aint you?

[luvie]

Ok...half way through the first episode...the pilot...and I’m hooked! LOL!

And that’s where I’ve been! Watching it. Now I’m taking a breather...after the c-section in the ambulance. Whew!

[mylife]

Gnight Young Lady

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqh88RWSpsg

[luvie]

Nite, MY! :)

Happy Thanksgiving! (((hugs)))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Luv, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Where are you going to dine? Gonna make biscuits?

[dfwgator]

Happy Thanksgiving, Kathy!

[luvie]

We'll stay here and eat dinner at the local cafeteria. My DIL made some wonderful pumpkin/chocolate chunk muffins and I brought some home, so we'll probably have those instead.

Unless I start feeling guilty for reneging on my 1 of 2 days to cook something. LOL!

🦃 Happy 🦃 Thanksgiving! 🦃

[Kathy in Alaska]

Happy Thanksgiving, Ms Feather...*hugs*...is it still snowing?

It's 13 right now, but they say it will warm up
to the mid 20s and snow this weekend. I'm ready.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I’m still Msbehavin!
*evil grin*

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
G’night Sweetie!
Happy Thanksgiving!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu, and Happy Thanksgiving!

I'm ready to cook my little 3# turkey and some sweet potatoes, mashed, with marshmallows on top.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, Jolla, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Monday and Tuesday were brutal. Because Thursday is a bank holiday, we had to send the Direct Deposit file to the bank first thing this morning. The usual is Wednesday afternoon to give them 2 days.

Then I work Friday, but I’m hoping it is so quiet (it IS Black Friday, and I work “in” the mall) that I can concentrate on a single issue that needs my attention and some peace and quiet.

My Mom wants her sweet potato done in the microwave. I want mashed and marshmallows. I told her I would do hers however she wanted. I heard her tell my sister she didn’t know what she was getting because I “was afraid of the microwave”. *sigh*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, henkster, and Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.

[Kathy in Alaska]

And a Happy Thanksgiving to you and Penny and your family as well. ((HUGS))

[radu]

Ugh! Cooking all day. Hubby isn’t all that crazy about leftovers so I get a break. A nice meal that’s tasty is all either of us wants so Thanksgiving isn’t all that much work.

But I do miss the days of larger gatherings with all the usual Thanksgiving fixin’s. Mmm, mmm, good stuff!

[radu]

LOL! Another fan. Hope you enjoy the other episodes as you watch them. It can be pretty rough but then, that’s how it gets in ERs - especially that one.

[Liberty Valance]

Happy Thanksgiving!

It is Officially Tamale Time in Texas ;o)

Love Me Do - Flaco Jimenez & Buck Owens

[radu]

Hey there, Kathy!

Yum, sounds deeeelicious, especially the sweet taters.

We’re having cola roast (Hubby won’t eat poultry), broccoli casserole (made that today), and regular potatoes (Hubby doesn’t care for sweet, durn it). Not traditional Thanksgiving fare but it’s easy and it’s tasty and will make our tummies happy. :-)

[radu]

When this week falls on a holiday week, it kills you gals. It’s bad enough on regular schedule the way they’ve set things up. At least you got through it and I hope it’s quiet at the office Friday. And that you don’t end up having to park a mile away from the door!

You sure do have your hands full with your mom.
At least she knows who you are. Clara doesn’t know us any more. We’re just nice people who visit her. But at a month shy of 100 years old, it isn’t a surprise.