[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks again, Mo, for the card for our troops.

It is very late for you. Shouldn't you be in bed?

[Mo1]

Yes .. but I passed out on the couch earlier and now I am trying to get up the nerve to clean this lovely mess my children left me .. LOL

[Kathy in Alaska]

Just got this in email...........FOR THE TROOPS!!

Subject: BLACK NOVEMBER

When I was a young turkey, new to the coop,
my big brother, Mike, took me out on the stoop.
Then he sat me down, and he spoke real slow,
and he told me there was something that I had to know.
His look and his tone I will always remember,
when he told me of the horrors of...Black November. 

"Come about August, now listen to me,
each day you'll get six meals instead of just three
and you'll grow a big rubbery thing under your chin, and then one
morning, when you're warm in your bed,
in'll burst the farmer's wife, and hack off your head;
then she'll pluck out all your feathers so you're bald 'n pink,
and scoop out all your insides and leave ya lyin' in the sink;
and then comes the worst part" he said not bluffing, "She'll spread your cheeks and pack your rear with stuffing."

Well, the rest of his words were too grim to repeat,
I sat on the stoop like a winged piece of meat,
and decided on the spot that to avoid being cooked,
I'd have to lay low and remain overlooked;
I began a new diet of nuts and granola,
high-roughage salads, juice and diet cola;
and as they ate pastries, chocolates and crepes,
I stayed in my room doing Jane Fonda tapes;
I maintained my weight of two pounds and a half,
and tried not to notice when the bigger birds laughed.
But 'twas I who was laughing, under my breath,
as they chomped and they chewed, ever closer to death;
and sure enough when Black November rolled around,
I was the last turkey left in the entire compound.
So now I'm a pet in the farmer's wife's lap;
I haven't a worry, so I eat and I nap;
she held me today, while sewing and humming,
and smiled at me and said, "Christmas is coming"!

[Dubya]

Just heard from the hospital. Matt is OK they stopped the bledding with stiches and he will be able to come here tomorrow for our family gathering. I will be intrested in how he cut his foot at 11PM.
Thank all of you so much for your prayers and concern for him.
And I praise God for looking out after Matt.
Its already Thanksgiving here in Ft. Worth, Texas. And a Happy one, especially now.