FReeper Canteen ~ Happy Thanksgiving 2025! ~ 27 November 2025

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[Kathy in Alaska]

1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2 Serve the Lord with gladness:
come before his presence with singing!
3 Know ye that the Lord he is God:
it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving,
and into his courts with praise:
be thankful unto him, and bless his name.
5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting;
and his truth endureth to all generations.

~ Psalm 100 (KJV)

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~ Happy Thanksgiving 2025!! ~

GOD BLESS AND WATCH OVER THEM, WHEREVER THEY SERVE

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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

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Due to the Thanksgiving holiday and travel and family gatherings,
this thread will run until the Sunday Chapel posts Saturday evening.

Please feel free to drop in and chat, post a graphic or two, and post your favorite tunes.

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

To all our military men and women, past and present,

THANK YOU
for your service!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sorry for the late post...internet hiccups.

~ Happy Thanksgving 2025! ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[luvie]

Charlie Haden/Hank Jones~Going Home

Gregg Karukas~My Favorite Season

David Benoit~Miles After Dark

Dallas Christian Sound~Thanks To God

Richard Elliot~By The Fire

Yanni~November Sky

London Symphony Orchestra~Passage

Acoustic Alchemy~Homecoming

Happy Thanksgiving To You All!

[luvie]

Beautiful thread, Kathy! Hope you have a.....

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Maybe the cables are too cold to send the signal properly. LOL It’s COLD up there!!

I hope you got through the crush of a short pay week with some semblance of sanity intact. Holidays always seem to fall on pay week, don’t they?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, radu, and Happy Thanksgiving!

[boomop1]

ping

[radu]

Howdy, luvie.

Happy to finally have a crisp day? You’ve been waiting long enough. :-)

[luvie]

Hey there, radu!

It was great. It felt so good when I went out to feed the kitties. I think little Dottie is a bit discombobulated, since she’s never been cold before.

How were things there? Is it still warm? Did you ever get more rain.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, luvie, and thanks for the holiday tunes.

Happy Thanksgiving!

[radu]

Happy Thanksgiving to you, Kathy.

Ready to sleep LATE tomorrow? You probably didn’t get much the past couple of nights.

[radu]

We definitely have a difference of opinion on how 40s feel. LOL
The only time it feels good to me is if we’ve had 20s, or colder, for a while and it warms up to the 40s.

Poor Dottie. She’s in for a shock.

Not very warm today. Only reached 54 and that was with sunshine. It’s already in the upper 30s now and it’s only about 10:00. Gonna have a chilly week or more. I think winter finally moved in.
No rain but we’ll probably get some Saturday.

[Publius]

My annual Thanksgiving post.

Charles Ives: Symphony #2

He sneaks in snippets of hymns, college tunes and patriotic songs in this piece he wrote in 1900 to 1902.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sanity is slowly returning.

Yes, holiday weeks seem to be pay weeks as well. Christmas week is going to be even worse.

It’s 15 on my front porch, but warming up to possible snow/rain tomorrow.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening and Happy Thanksgiving, boomop1.

And thank you for your service to our country.

[luvie]

Well, it did get into the 50s by late afternoon. Perfect to me! The low on Sunday is supposed to be 31 and then about 29 on Monday. That’s pretty cold, but honestly, it IS about time for it. It’s 45 right now.

When the kitties’ water starts getting ice in it, then I’ll put the little warmer out under the dish to keep it drinkable.

Our daytime weather today was similar. I hope when you get the rain on Saturday that it doesn’t cause ice on the roads. Guess it’s jacket and socks weather, huh. LOL!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Sleeping in is at the top of my list. Doesn’t usually work very well, BUT I don’t have to get up. I can read!

[Fiji Hill]

Turkey Hop--The Robins (1950)