gratitude

As we prepare for Thanksgiving, it can mean many things, depending on who you talk to.  To some folks, it marks the beginning of the Christmas shopping season.  To other folks, it means a weekend of football.  To others, it is a time for traditional cooking as well as a time to try out new recipes.

Still others hate cooking and will gather with family and friends at local restaurants so someone else has clean up duty.  Where are the good Thanksgiving Day dinners?

Then there are the leftovers.  Some people enjoy the day after far more than the official day.

100 Thoughts to “Open Thread……………………………..Thursday, November 21”

  1. Cato the Elder

    Wolverine :
    I understand those feral pigs can kill and eat you if they are big enough or there are enough of them and you disturb them. Some real exciting hunting in Florida.

    I’ve been chased up a tree by several when I first started hunting them, mostly because I was trying to take them with a .22 LR that just doesn’t get the job done. The best way I’ve found is to hunt them at night with an AR15 (gasp – an ASSAULT rifle!) using steel core penetrators or better. They don’t do well in the dark and if you catch them in the open you can devistate the herd before they know what hit them. Plus, they taste pretty good.

    1. Do you have pictures?

      Gasp!! Finally a good use for an AR15.

      I guess you just blew the entire idea that assault rifles aren’t for sports.

      I wish I were an artist….I feel my inner political cartoon struggling to get out.

  2. @Moon-howler
    Slice the orange and just shove it under the breast skin…and put some near the thigh. after rubbing butter under the skin. Put the rest, along with the tangerines in the cavity as quarters….squeeze some of the juices onto the bird.

    Kugel (Oops…misspelled it) …..is a mysterious. baked Jewish noodle dish that is yummy. I have no idea what actually is in it…..I think raisins were involved in this one…..

  3. @Moon-howler
    Oh…they didn’t listen to me about the fine….and you can sign up as soon as you get sick. Pre-existing conditions can’t prevent sign up. Sign up at the hospital.

    They are fairly well off. It was a great policy….he’s had a lot of medical care covered under it. They’ve had the policy for years.

    1. You can sign up with pre-existing conditions but I think there is a waiting period for treatment, just like there is now.

      I wouldn’t trust that. I am not saying I KNOW I am right…saying I think I am right. If you can find something that says I am wrong, please post it.

      For instance, if my husband buys dental insurance, he can have a mouth full of needed bridgework. They will take him but he has to live with it for a year before they will pay.

  4. Little John

    @Behive Barny

    Behive, say man, did you misspell your own name? Have you noticed how the Pete-o-phants on the Sheriff sound like they are writing product descriptions for one of the home shopping channels?

    Do you suppose those lady writers are his office staff or his church ladies?

  5. Cato the Elder

    @Moon-howler

    It would not be my 1st, 2nd or even 3rd choice of rifle but in certain situations (like a pack of feral hogs that will scatter really fast and/charge you after you hit the first one) it’s really useful.

    Feral swine are a terrible nuisance to our local farmers, your average pack can destroy two acres every night.

  6. I have no qualms about shooting them. I have a bad attitude about feral hogs.

    How close are they related to feral boars? I have always heard the term used inter-changeably but that doesn’t mean I am right.

    There are some animals I would just do away with. That’s a good place to start. Elena will get me. I am an animal lover but it isn’t universal like it is with her.

    For instance, she captures mice and turns them lose. I enjoy hearing their necks snap if they are in MY house. I know she is probably praying for my evil soul :mrgreen:

  7. Scout

    Domestic swine are omnivores. They’ll eat anything that gets in their path. On farms where hogs are raised, it’s a well known caution that you don’t let small children get around penned in hogs. They can get underfoot and, once down, the hogs will gobble them up with as much enthusiasm as they would have for a corn cob. It’s not that they’re particularly vicious. But they love food and get pretty hungry. I can relate to this.

    Feral swine are another matter altogether. Several years ago, my daughter and I were horseback riding near the Ocala National Forest in Florida and saw, at a distance of perhaps a quarter of a mile, a group of wild boar. I was worried, the horses were worried, and my daughter thought we should check them out more closely. I think I made the right decision to say we should mosey on out of there.

  8. @Scout

    I can remember hearing that as a child. I also heard that mother hogs will kill to protect the shoats.

    I agree you made the right decision. NOt sure if Thornbirds is too much of a chick book for Scout but there is a horrible scene in that novel about wild boards. Granted its fiction but Colleen McCullough was strictly reality in that story.

  9. Pat.Herve

    @Cargosquid
    and you can sign up as soon as you get sick. Pre-existing conditions can’t prevent sign up. Sign up at the hospital.

    cargo – you should not recommend this BS to anyone. There is a 90 day waiting period that can be imposed to anyone – so the sign up at the hospital nonsense will likely get them into a very serious financial situation. Anyone who has already had health related problems would be foolish to go without insurance.

  10. @Pat.Herve
    As I said… they didn’t take me seriously.

  11. @Pat.Herve
    Wait? 90 Days?

    Why is the gov’t preventing people from acquiring health care? They must want people to die.

    1. Most company insurance isn’t active until you have been with them for 90 days.

      In this case, I will back up the insurance companies. You just can’t call from the hospital. That isn’t how insurance works.

  12. Pat.Herve

    @Cargosquid
    Yes a wait – the Gov set a MAX of 90 days – it is up to the insurance company to decide if they do want to wait before making a policy effective, and they will to prevent the scenario that you want people to try (calling from the hospital).

    You can try and twist it around whatever way you wish – at times I think you want to twist things to just get a rise out of people. Not working with me,

  13. @Pat.Herve
    Perhaps I needed to add a /sarc tag to that one.

    Apparently is was funnier in my head.

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