Happy Thanksgiving fellers

To all you Maverick / Comet guys and gals happy Thanksgiving and Columbus Day. Let's give thanks for our freedom, for the people that protect us and those freedoms here, there and everywhere. And thanks for our love of Mavericks and Comets and all the times we all get together for our cruises, car shows, mini meets, meet and greets and swap meets. And thank God for all the Turkey that we are gonna eat this fine weekend. So with that in mind......... belly up boys.......... and yes, go for that second (and third) plate full.

And one last thing........ do not eat your turkey dinner in your Maverick or Comet. I hear gravy stains seats!

Comrick317 Yeah baby, look at that turkey fly! (Sorry Trevor, i just couldn't resist).

 

yup... Happy Turkey Day!....

Thanks for the post Comrick....

I spent 6 hrs cooking a 22lb bird today with all the fixins...

I *DO* have a lot to be thankful for...

I have a beautiful girlfriend with two great kids who have absolutely no comprehension as to why I need two Mercury Comets in the front yard when there is a perfectly good (albeit useless) Astro Van gathering dust beside them while I ignore it and fix up the cars (more fun and less cost than fixing the van). Yet they still think the old cars are 'kinda cool'. When guests come by they think the cars are "really neat old Mustangs or somethin' ". They are always - and forever will be - great conversation pieces.

I have a great job (hospital union) that gives me the time and energy to pursue other interests in my spare time. 2 cars (guess what they are) and 2 books.

A co-worker died from cancer 1 week ago today. She had been suffering for months from a terminal re-growth of a previous cancer diagnosis. I am in my 2nd week of trying to quit smoking. I have a great opportunity to evaluate this sick habit and kill it before it kills me.

We are seriously re-evaluating our role in a messed up muslim community (lower case used deliberately) to withdraw troops in two years (2 years too late as far as I'm concerned) for an ignorant, thankless society of idiots. I am so thankful that I never had to consider sending someone I know and love into hells' gate for a useless mission of wasted mercy and pointless sacrifice. Yet I would never underestimate the tenacity, courage, admiration, gusto and even ENVY of everyone who'se gone over SOMEWHERE HORRIBLE to do THE UNTHINKABLE. Now I'm thinking soldiers - a month early for Rememberance Day.

If that sentence didn't make sense then you or me needs to think a bit deeper.

Without getting MUCH deeper - since I'm drunk right now - I am so grateful for a job, a paycheque, my health and my family's health... happy, quasi-sane kids (one is actually a psych student - funny since I work around a psychiatric ward of loonies) and the freedom and free choice to waste my spare cash on purchasing parts for a pair of ponies (Mira I and Mira II).

I served 8 full dishes of food to 10 hungry guests tonight and afterwards we drank 4 cases of beer, 1/2 gallon of wine, a 26 of vodka and a mickey of cheap whisky and talked and danced and ate dessert and played some videos.....

got enough turkey leftovers for the next 3 days - as usual....

I'm thankful that everyone ate and drank and talked and danced freely until they were satisfied. Then someone (a kid???) barfed in the sink. Not sure who it was at the moment... noone will admit it right now.... but at least they have the freedom to eat, drink, puke, play some tunes and dance a little more, then do it again.

I'm thankful that after today I need to take the garbage out in the morning then spend the rest of the weekend working on my other Comet.

and THANK GOD/KRISHNA/GAIA/VISHNU/JESUS/MOHAMMAD/<satan>?/Darwin... my man

that I bought Craftsman tools because I've never - ever - had to raplace any of them.

One more beer and I really, really REALLY need to stop typing this message....

Whisky
(certainly doesn't need another one....)

 

That would be Trevor's Maverick not Darrens.... Way too much turkey.

 

A Canadian Thanksgiving, Turkey and lots of beer and next day ,SNOW!

 

BBQ'd turkey!!! I can't wait!!.

 

Wow and ahem!!!!!!!!

 

Oooops my bad.............. quick, someone slap me in the back of the head........ HARD!16suspectrolleyes:

 

Thanksgiving? Like November 26th?

Canada has a Thanksgiving? Where am I? Who are all you people and why do you all have the same car?

 

I like the American Thanksgiving, lots of football and full bore Christmas the next Friday............ Yee-haw.bananaman

 

I am home alone most of the time since my kids are always gone somewhere, my wife works all of the time. I had to pull up a calender and see what the date was today. Messed my all up there for a couple of minutes. lol
clint

 

Your only cure for this is lots of turkey, potatoes, corn, carrots, stuffing and gravy ........... oh my i gotta go get more to eat!

 

You said it, I'm stuffed. Turkey for a week. I'm go'in out to do laps in the Mav.

 

I wondered what you were getting at. Really had me confused.

I did drive the Mav to turkey dinner at the in laws today.
It was 2 years ago thanksgiving weekend I went and bought the Mav. Figured I'd better go and drive the hell out of it today since its our 2 year anniversary.

 

Happy anniversary.

 

To our Northern Friends,

Hope your Thanksgiving was a great one.


My birthdays falls on Thanksgiving here, every 6 or 7 years depending on Leap Years, etc.
As a kid it was a bit of a dissappointment ... "here's your presents ... NOW LET'S EAT!!! Whoo-Hoo ... "
As an adult, it is really OK ... nice time to reflect on what you have to be thankful for ... and it does take away some of the focus of getting older .

This year will be nice ... big B-day for me (50) ... a big B-day for my grandson the next day (5) ... the whole family here, my dad and stepmom, our son and his family (none live locally) ... our band plays a huge gig (5000+ people) ... Thanksgiving with all a few days later. Really looking forward to it.