Happy Thanksgiving

 

The fall colours are out in earnest now. Here in Alberta you gotta get out and enjoy them because in two or three weeks the skies will close over and turn the colour of lead, the winds will kick up, blow the leaves away…and the weather will be rather monotonous until about February or so… when the sun starts to shine again.

It blows me away, how the time flies now. Hannah is coming up on two years old now. I took it in the shorts when we lost Macey and then Mort about a year and a half later. I am one of those guys that has to have a dog - preferably two… but time passes for me too. For some reason Hanna is just fine being a spoiled only child. Mort and Macey were kind of like cherished room mates for us. They were a couple just as the wife n’ I are. How I love them and miss them… but the world moves on.

A weird hobby the wife picked up is making cards. She makes elaborate cards for every social occasion and she’ll glue those leaves to them with hand painted pictures of pumpkins autumn things. People love to get them too. 

One a the major benefits of Christianity in my opinion, is that it seriously pushes the notion about being thankful. I grew up in a family of ungrateful, entitled people and they seemed to grow more unhappy with each passing year. Family occasions became ordeals as these people slowly turned into the a-holes they are today. They’re still devolving too! They used to drive me up the wall so bad that I started avoiding them…and now I feel sorry for them. But I am thankful for the end of family dramas and feuds. I’m thankful for my wife of 39 years, and my little black dawg I share my days with. I’m thankful for my well equipped dungeon in the basement, my play house out in the shed and all the wonderful machines that are in it.

And I’m thankful to you guys that stop by to say hello or share a rude joke or comment. It’s easy to forget the little things in today’s world that is chock full of clowns, rage, insanity and degeneracy. If I had any advice for Thanksgiving, it’d be this: it’s not “Turkey Day”. 

Do it right. Be thankful. It’s worth the effort. Have a happy Thanksgiving.

Cheers!

Filthie