Happy Thanksgiving

[Flying Trucker]

Good morning all...

A wonderful morning it is, the sun is shining and the temperature is going into the 20C range.

Tree Leaves here are picture perfect, what colours Mother Nature can produce must be the envy of every artist and painter.

Wonderful to see from the air also.

This is a long weekend here in the Colony, it is Thanksgiving and many activities are planned everywhere.

http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/can ... giving-day

Next to Christmas, Thanksgiving is one of our wonderful celebrated holidays across Canada.

Me, Myself and I have just finished cleaning, peeling and chopping-up two hundred (200) pounds of onions for the flying club to cook later this afternoon.

The Old Girl has made dozens of Candy Caramel Apples and several Pumpkin Pies for the outing.

We are looking forward to some scenic flying later this afternoon and some great food. (Of course I will indulge in more food than I should...do it every time... )

Not going to participate in any of the Flying Competitions, might get involved in chewing the rag around the Bullshit Table at the Bugsmasher Field if the Old Girl gets involved in something and forgets about me...

Tomorrow will be a Flying Poker Run with meals thrown in at all stops. Unfortunately the Old Girl has me at church first thing in the morning...

Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving this long weekend and watch your driving as the highways are busy, give yourselves lots of time to get where you are going and don't over indulge in the food, bring some home. Better still, save some for me...

Happy Thanksgiving All

P.S. Fall colours around hills and open water would make for a fine Competition Theme...just a thought...

[Bass]

HAPPY Thanksgiving day to you and the "Old Girl"

We dont celebrate the harvest the way you do over there (at different times in Canada and US). Not anymore, that is.
In the old days we had something called "høstfest". When a farmer has got his harvest inside, especially when it was good, he called his workers in to a barnparty.
Funny tho, a lot of new workers was born 9 month later

[Fozzer]

Me?

I'm just Thankful to be awake every morning... ..!

Paul.... ...!

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks Bass and Paul...much appreciated...

Yesterday, Monday 14th October being Thanksgiving Day we enjoyed a Turkey Dinner with all the trimmings at the old homestead.

Our Daughter-in-Law gave us so much left over turkey, veggies and desserts I have a feeling a lot of it will go to waste.

We managed to go flying Sunday (after Church) and Monday (after Church) and the Fall/Autumn colours are beautiful.

Hope all who celebrate Thanksgiving had a wonderful meal and day...

[RAFSB]

Yes it was a perfect day for Thanksgiving. But...The wife and I both came down with the flu and don't feel too good. Hopefully we will have that Turkey stuffed and in the oven next Sunday.
Maybe I'll see if my youngest Daughter has any leftovers from their Thanksgiving Dinner. The deserts, not the potatoes..

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

[Webb]

25 Differences Between Canadian and American Thanksgiving

I hope you get to watch CFL games all day. Go Argos!

[BLAZE]

Me?

I'm just Thankful to be awake every morning... ..!

Paul.... ...!

LOL! .. .. Amen Brother!

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks for the reply BLAZE....

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Webb...

We are much too busy for television, perhaps the News, Ice Pilots and a good Documentary.

I can't think of any of our children, grand children or great grand children that watch much television.

The one thing I have not figured out yet as how I got along without a computer for so many years. We bought one of the first personal computers on the market when they came out and we used computers during my career.

Thanks Webb for the reply...

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks RAFSB for the reply and you two get well...have you had the Flu Shot?

[Fozzer]

........The one thing I have not figured out yet as how I got along without a computer for so many years. We bought one of the first personal computers on the market when they came out and we used computers during my career.....

Computers....

I still have the remains of my 1976 Apple 1 computer...A kit in a cardboard box!
...quickly followed by my 1980 Sinclair ZX80 > 1981 ZX81 > 1982 ZX82 Spectrum, Spectrum Plus, Spectrum 128, 1983 Commodore C16 > C64, 1984 Amstrad CPC 464, Amiga A500 > A1200, etc etc,...Zillions of old Game Consoles.....and then on to home-built Desktop PC's....still building 'em!

I have been permanently glued to my Personal computers for the past 33 years...and I've still got them all..and their software and manuals...and I still use them, and their various "Emulators".

I must get outside, sometime...need to mow the grass!.... ... ...!

Paul....Computer Addict... ...!

The introduction of the first "Personal Computers" was a magic time I will never forget.....Early 1980's...We were all "Bedroom Programmers", all busy making and sharing our own programs, in BASIC and Machine Code!

[Flying Trucker]

Good morning Paul...

In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and it came with twelve games.

Our first personal computer had games like the "Battle of Britain" from the Board Version. Not sure when the game came out but I think it was well after the first personal home computers were available.

One of our children told us there was less than a dozen children who had a personal home computer at school as they were quite expensive.
Several years later I think everyone had a personal home computer.

The Old Girl and I (when I was home) would sit down with the children to do their homework or review their day/week school work and the Old Girl would use the computer as a learning tool with them.

We insisted our children knew how to use:
-a Slide Rule
-a hand held Flight Computer
-a Dictionary
-an Encyclopedia Set
-how to properly set a Kitchen or Dining Room Table
amongst many other things prior to them being eleven or twelve years old.

Using a computer is just like flying, it is a learning process and I wish I had taken some Computer Courses when the Old Girl did.

Have a great day Paul....