Oh, for the love of Lady Gaga. Thankful Shmankful. Well Amigos, have you ever heard so many being so thankful for so little…The Red Man is over it.
I know, I know. Tomorrow is Thanksgiving for the Americans and everybody knows they get all gushy grateful at the drop of a Pilgrim’s Hat on the last Thursday in November every year. Gratitude oozes throughout the country like an Exxon oil slick off the coast of Alaska.
Fast forward twenty-four hours and you’ll find them trampling each other to enter Toys R Us when the doors open at 5 p.m. and giving thanks if they are lucky enough to get the Hottest Toy before it sells out. Shit house mouse. They’re a mess, but they’re my mess.
Pretty and the old woman Slow can give thanks with the best of them, if you catch my drift, and if they weren’t both sick with the Epizootey they’d be headed to Pretty’s family gathering at the First Baptist Church of Fingerville, South Carolina tomorrow afternoon. We’ll see if they make it. Otherwise, we’ll twiddle our paws together at Casa de Canterbury.
Did somebody say Food and Football? Ok. I’m thankful.
Get me outta here Percy…first comes Thanksgiving and then Whoa Nellie! We’ll be looking slap in the face of 2014…Happy Thanksgiving to all our Sports Fans everywhere!
P.S. Thanks to those special Amigos who sent their home remedies to cure Slow’s Epizootey which she has now given to Pretty. Unfortunately, nothing appears to be working but we appreciate the thoughts and will hope for a miracle cure in the near future.
Red's Rants and Raves 
Here’s to the gals getting rid of the lurgy in time to give thanks en mass. Lots of footy on the box if not! Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
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Thanks so much, Animalcouriers!! Slow is gaining her best form again, but Pretty is deep in the throes. We will all still give thanks and watch lots of footy on the box!! I love that phrase footy on the box – I will steal it. 🙂 Thanks for your taking a minute to read and share our foolishness…we are thankful for all you do to take such good care of the animals across the pond!
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Sheila, what the hell is Epizootey? Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving. Envy you guys. Wish we had something like that in our country, not Epizootey, Thanksgiving.
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Don, Thanksgiving is actually my favorite holiday of all the ones we celebrate here in the USA. When I was a little girl growing up in rural southeast Texas, it was a day when all my family gathered in our tiny home filled with the aromas of the southern foods my grandmothers could only afford to fix twice a year: Thanksgiving and Christmas. Baked turkey, cornbread dressing, candied sweet potatoes, macaroni and cheese, mashed potatoes with giblet gravy, cranberry sauce, black-eyed peas, pecan pie, buttermilk pie, fresh coconut cake. We ate like rich folks!! (Or at least what I imagined was how rich people ate!) After the meal, I listened to a football game on a small transistor radio – the annual Texas – Texas A&M game. Sometimes my dad listened with me when he wasn’t busy visiting with his brother and brothers-in-law. This is the first Thanksgiving I’ll have in 67 years without one of the Best Generation remaining since my dad’s sister died in March. I will miss them especially today.
The Epizootey is what my family used to call the flu or any other nasty winter illness we tried to cure with home remedies!
Yes, I wish you had Thanksgiving in South Africa, too – but not the Epizootey. Go ahead and have your own version today and celebrate with us. Be thankful for all you have, eat your favorite foods and do whatever you love best!
Thanks for reading and allowing Slow to ramble on.
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Happy Thanksgiving to Red and Slow and the rest of the family, too. Get better everyone and have a lovely weekend.
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Thanks for the good wishes, Luanne, and all of us at Casa de Canterbury wish the same for you and your family! We are thankful for you and for your love of generations of family. We share that love. Have a great weekend!
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I’ll continue to send get well vibes your way. Cuddle up with some pumpkin pie & hot cocoa. Consider the turkey a loss, but your little family a blessing.
Love,
Ann & the Pawsome Two
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Ann and the Pawsome Two – you gotta love that!! 🙂
We cuddled up with homemade vegetable soup that Slow actually made and a fabulous Italian creme cake from a bakery on Main Street. Pretty LOVES an Italian creme cake so even in the midst of drugs and mofy marathon, she was happy to have her favorite cake!
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Oh, my! That does sound good … Especially the Italian creme cake part of the meal. I think I’d ditch pumpkin pie AND apple pie instantly for a slice.We have to travel into Philly to get a good one. Out here in the sticks, no one makes a cake as good as I remember from the South Philly bakeries. Hmm, a drive into town may be in order!!!
Hugs!
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Yes, I would highly recommend a visit to bakeries during the season – who knows what delights await?? As for me, I prefer a plain pound cake over all other desserts – I had a friend who used to bake them for me on a regular basis, but now he isn’t well so that source is gone. The best bakery one is at Stickboy bakery in Boone, NC. The next time you order art supplies, you might want to add a pound cake!!
We love our portraits and other watercolors so much!! Thank you so much for the wonderful packaging, too – loved the “horse” paper!! 🙂
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I will look into Stickboy Bakery as I love pound cake too. To tell the truth, I love most cakes except Angel Food. What’s the point of that one?! 🙂
I thought you would like the horse paper. When you find a decent framer, let me know! They are such particular characters, every last one. I lose my temper regularly with the one I usually “work” with. It’s gotten to where I commission my poor friend Beth to get my stuff framed. Her sense of what works is better than mine, and she has a rhinoceros hide when it comes to dealing with prickly framers.
Oh gee, now I want something sweet before I get back to work … 😀
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Yes, it’s difficult to come up with a cake that doesn’t have a few merits, and I will even defend the hapless Angel Food cakes my mother used to make from scratch and then put a delightful pink powdered sugar icing on it. Mom didn’t understand the true meaning of “light and fluffy” Angel Food, so it was almost as heavy as a pound cake!! 🙂 The ones nowadays are pointless for sure.
Yes, I loved the horse paper – wonderful! I will have to keep it. I took the portraits to a framer who is the daughter of a framer I used for years. The mother died several years back, and the daughter kept the shop going. I remember her when she was a young girl helping her mom in the shop – so we’ll see if she keeps up the family tradition…stay tuned.
At least you have a friend to help you avoid the aggravation of temperamental framers!! 🙂
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Hope you had a wonderful day 🙂 Pawkiss 🙂
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Thanks, Granny! Paw Snaps and Twirls to you! 🙂
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