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WOW! It's a week until Thanksgiving Day... what are you planning to do for the holiday?? Are the friends and family all coming to you for the big meal or are you traveling (preferably flying in your plane!) out to see them?? Eating in or going out to a restaurant?? Turkey, Ham, or something a bit less traditional?? Here we go... the HOLIDAYS are HERE! The best part of the year for me... how about you?? :D
 
Flying a loop from IL-KS-TX-MO-IN-IL to hit 4 siblings & in-laws' places over the holiday. The airplane let's us check those boxes for the year with a minimum of fuss. Useful load will suffer after 4 thanksgiving meals.
 
LZU to JQF to spend Thanksgiving with our son and his family in Concord.
 
JHW said:
Flying a loop from IL-KS-TX-MO-IN-IL to hit 4 siblings & in-laws' places over the holiday. The airplane let's us check those boxes for the year with a minimum of fuss. Useful load will suffer after 4 thanksgiving meals.
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Awesome!! Have fun... hoping for good weather for all of us who will be flying! :yes:


Moochers... LOL! :lol:
 
Driving home, eating a lot. driving back, perhaps picking up a glider on the way
 
I think the Polar Bear and I are going to kick it. We will find some bar that is open on Thanksgiving day, get obnoxiously drunk and eat at Burger King. I don't care that much for turkey and it jacks up Polar Bear's system (he eats mostly seals.)
 
With no doors on the new garage, but all the stuff inside, the wife doesn't want to leave the place unattended. So, she and a daughter or two are going to her brothers while I stay home and dig a trench for the electrical service.

I will be SO thankful when this project is done.
 
We won't be going anywhere - and it will just be our immediate family, and that's just fine with us. One of our kids will be graduating from college soon, so this might be the last time we see her for Thanksgiving depending on where she ends up after school.
 
Flying comercial to New Mexico for a week, to see my family. Football, Turkey, Stuffing, and cranberry sauce. The best week of the year! :)
 
Mafoo said:
Flying comercial to New Mexico for a week, to see my family. Football, Turkey, Stuffing, and cranberry sauce. The best week of the year! :)
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YES! Fun stuff to do with family... the start of lots of Christmas shopping... good food and lots of it... a short work week... flying... now if only the weather will co-operate for a drama-free weekend! :yes:
 
The only thing Polar Bear and I hate worse than Thanksgiving is Christmas. I wish I could skip the whole holiday season and fast forward to March.

Holiday season bums the Sac Arrow out.
 
Sac Arrow said:
The only thing Polar Bear and I hate worse than Thanksgiving is Christmas. I wish I could skip the whole holiday season and fast forward to March.

Holiday season bums the Sac Arrow out.
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SAC!! I don't get how anyone could hate Christmas. On top of everything else I mentioned before... everyone gets PRESENTS too!

Grouch.
 
Sorry. I feel all better now, it's off my chest. I'm all yippy and yay now. Woo hoo.

Carry on.
 
flygirl34q said:
SAC!! I don't get how anyone could hate Christmas. On top of everything else I mentioned before... everyone gets PRESENTS too!

Grouch.
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What's not to like? Food, day off, friends and family, no presents, no stress, more food, football, war stories. Life is good at Thanksgiving, lots to be thankful for.

Grouch. :lol:

Are you pro turkey? :dunno:

Do you have a thing for cranberries? :nono:


;)
 
My wife is on a business odyssey, (Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo), and hopes to be back Sunday. Our kids and associated offspring will join us here at our winter hideaway. I have managed to fool a local owner into thinking I am a passably adequate pilot, :dunno: and have bought an insurance rider on his policy, so it will be a round of island tours for all. :thumbsup:
 
Geico266 said:
What's not to like? Food, day off, friends and family, no presents, no stress, more food, football, war stories. Life is good at Thanksgiving, lots to be thankful for.

Grouch. :lol:

Are you pro turkey? :dunno:

Do you have a thing for cranberries? :nono:


;)
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Point well taken. Turkey is fine but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it. If it were up to the Sac Arrow, prime rib would be the national TG main course. Really have to struggle with not overeating. Can't touch mash potatoes, bread, etc... and no snacks throughout the day. Other than that it's fine I guess.
 
Sac Arrow said:
Point well taken. Turkey is fine but I wouldn't go out of my way to eat it. If it were up to the Sac Arrow, prime rib would be the national TG main course. Really have to struggle with not overeating. Can't touch mash potatoes, bread, etc... and no snacks throughout the day. Other than that it's fine I guess.
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My friend I see you are obviously misunderstanding the meaning of "overeating" You only gain weight from eating too much off your plate. So the answer is obvious.....take the plate of the biggest glutton around....DUH. :D
 
I'm in Afghanistan until the week after Thanksgiving, so I'll be spending it in the Chow Hall. I'm thankful for a great crew and a great helicopter that both seem to keep bringing me back home night after night!
 
I'll be working(EMS). Don't think I'll have to fly unless someone chokes on a turkey bone! I could use the overtime though.:)
 
Deep frying a turkey for the first time.
 
Eating turkey. Dad is coming over. Everyone else is busy. Kinda nice for a change. Dad says he is bringing the wine. We'll have a bed for him if he brings too much. ;)

One or the other of us is probably on-call. Hasn't been a Christmas in years where someone didn't call whining that some computer was broken somewhere and acting like it was important. Usually the newbies are at the help desk on holidays.
 
I plan to go to my parents house 30 miles north of here for the annual family gathering, and hopefully return home before the fights start.

-Rich
 
I hate Turkey............ It's prime rib for me..... yummy...:yes:
 
I didn't even know it was almost thanksgiving. Next week? I'm pretty sure it's a work day. If not, I'll be wrenching on vehicles in one form or another all day. Same with christmas and new years whenever that happens.
Thanks for the warning so I can make a supermarket run NLT monday that will last at least two weeks.

flygirl34q said:
SAC!! I don't get how anyone could hate Christmas. On top of everything else I mentioned before... everyone gets PRESENTS too!
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I can't stand holidays. The only thing it's good for is double overtime pay and less people at work when everyone else wants the days off.

This is the time of year that drivers go from generally hateful to self centered absolutely vicious murderous and people in general are more rude and aggressive than the rest of the year. It's like hate season is open. What's to like about that?

Don't get presents. Don't want them either. It's just unnecessary meaningless mass produced clutter.


P.S. Went hunting a while back and bagged this one:
 

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W29 to KBED for turkey. KBED to 2B1 for italian night. Then 2B1 to W29 to get back to work. All with the wife, 3 yr old and 7 week old.
 
Lakeland airport (Sun n Fun) is 22 miles east of my house. But I will drive 29 miles north to my airport so that I can fly to Lakeland airport for the Thanksgiving buffet dinner at Earhart's. After that I will fly around a little bit just so I can land at a few other airports on my way back.
Then I'll take a nap with my dogs. Then I'll cook chicken for them.
 
No real plans for the holiday. I'm still trying to get enough hood time in with a CFII to call it "checkride prep" for real. Chances have been few and far between this fall due to weather (too much cold IFR conditions a.k.a. ice), and also because my first finish-up CFII had to cut back on everything for personal reasons, so now I'm starting from scratch with a second finish-up CFII. We were scheduled to fly on Sunday but ended up doing 3 hours oral prep while the winds gusted outside to 30kt (he says he doesn't think I'll have any trouble with the oral). I'll fly for the first time with him this Saturday evening. I'll ask him if he's available over the holiday weekend at all, and hopefully get some training time in. If not, I'll fly some approaches by myself just to keep sharp on the 480 buttonology.
 
After work on Wednesday we head across the state and have Thanksgiving at Mom's place (my wife is cooking). Football game on Friday (WSU vs. uw - Apple Cup) and drive home on Saturday. 5 1/2 to 6 hour drive each way (weather permitting). This time of year planning this trip in a 172 is a waste of time, IR or no IR.

But, first, I have to get home from Bangkok...
 
I'll be working. The holiday pay will cover a lot of 100LL. Friends have invided me for leftover Friday, it's an offer I can't refuse. I really like working the holidays and taking time off when there is stuff I'm really interested in going on.

The retail/spiritual entertainment holidays have written themselves into the social script pretty good, but I can find more meaningfull things to actually celebrate.
 
steingar said:
Try being Jewish. Enough said.
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If it makes you feel better, very little of Christmas symbology actually relates to Christianity. Santa Claus, the Christmas tree and the yule log are all pagan traditions.
 
Sac Arrow said:
If it makes you feel better, very little of Christmas symbology actually relates to Christianity. Santa Claus, the Christmas tree and the yule log are all pagan traditions.
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Actually, Santa Claus in his current incarnation is an invention of those former narcotics purveyors the Coca Cola Company. But yes, most of the Christmas traditions were taken from the Pagan yule, which celebrated the Winter Solstice.

It just gets tiresome being bombarded with it through every media outlet imaginable and not begin able to approach a commercial retail establishment for over month.

And yes, it's deadly dull for those of us who don't celebrate. I think we're headed out of town this year.
 
fgcason said:
I can't stand holidays. The only thing it's good for is double overtime pay and less people at work when everyone else wants the days off.

This is the time of year that drivers go from generally hateful to self centered absolutely vicious murderous and people in general are more rude and aggressive than the rest of the year. It's like hate season is open. What's to like about that?

Don't get presents. Don't want them either. It's just unnecessary meaningless mass produced clutter.


P.S. Went hunting a while back and bagged this one:
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:yikes: That is an awful photo! Sac... Mr. Cason is even grouchier than you and the Polar Bear are about the holidays. :(



steingar said:
Try being Jewish. Enough said.
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You still get 8 days worth of presents as opposed to 1 day for the rest of us?? :)
 
flygirl34q said:
:yikes: That is an awful photo! Sac... Mr. Cason is even grouchier than you and the Polar Bear are about the holidays. :(
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Just as long as he doesn't shoot my Polar Bear I think we're good!
 
You folks are missing the point.

In order:

football season
turkey season
deer season
thanksgiving-family-food-football
more turkey season
christmas-family-church-time off work
freeze - pond hockey - ice fishing
snowmobiling
snow skiing

We're now at the lead-in to the best time of the year
 
flygirl34q said:
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Grouchier? Based on what? Just because I don't like prepackaged consumerism crap doesn't mean I'm grouchier. It just means I don't like putting up with several months of nonsense that everyone else thinks is the whole point of the entire Universe when it's not.

Besides, based on observation of people behavior in general, by the time it's a day before christmas I'm probably one of the few remaining people that are not grouchy and almost certainly the only person remaining that's not po'd to no end at every else. Terrorists have nothing on a shopping mall the day after thanksgiving or the day before christmas. They're like "damn, let's go take lessons from them on how to be mean to people."
 
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