Monday Coffee Talk

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What is is about coffee that makes me like it so much?  Well, other that the taste.

Coffee brings back precious memories of my childhood and Momma and Daddy, they were big coffee drinkers.  My Daddy worked long hours, seven days a week during the spring, summer and fall.  He operated the BIG tractors, and those months were the busy ones.  Sometimes the weather would be bad and he would come home early, those were such great days.  He would immediately put on a pot of coffee, that was before the electric pots came along. anyway, he would put on the coffee and sit down at the table waiting for it to brew.  Momma would join him and they would sit there for longest time just talking about first one thing and another.  The smell of the coffee and the soft tone of their voices made me feel secure.  Sometimes if I got up early enough this same scene would be playing at breakfast. LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY. I have one of Daddy's last mugs stored away in an upper cabinet, I really need to get it down and look at it for a while.☺♥

And the season has begun . . .

My first Christmas junk mail has been deliverd.

And yet, my hibiscus is blooming like it's summer time.

The red blooms do look like Christmas.

I'm trying not to get ahead of myself, we still have Thanksgiving to enjoy.

An article from our local newspaper, Around Town.

Thanksgiving has a long history that includes a harvest feast in 1621, a day of prayer, and a national holiday.

1621 Harvest Feast - The wampanoag people and the English colonists, also known as Pilgrims, shared a feast to celebrate the autumn harvest.  The feast lasted three days and included deer, corm, shellfish, roasted meat, ball games, singing and dancing.

1623 Thanksgiving - The Pilgrims held a religious and social Thanksgiving celebration after a drought destroyed their crops.

Days of Thanksgiving - Before Thanksgiving became a national holiday, individual colonies and states celebrated days of thanksgiving.  These days were often days of prayer for blessings such as safe journeys, military victories, or abundant harvests.

National Holiday - In 1863, President Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day to be held each November.  The holiday was established after decades of lobbying by magazine editor Sarah Josepha Hale.

Thanksgiving is a day to come together to share a meal and reflect on what one is grateful for.  However, the holiday is controversial for some Americans, including people of Native American ancestry, who believe it maks the true history of oppression and bloodshed between European settlers and Native Americans.

Psalm 95:2

Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving;

Let us shout joyfully Him with psalms.

Family Birthdays

November 21st

Happy Birthday to my youngest daughter, 

Peggy Anne.

November 17th

Happy Birthday to my first-born grandchild,

Mary Maegan De-an

Blessings to All

Until Next Time