As I previously mentioned, my friend Donna invited me to join her and her family for Thanksgiving yesterday, we had roast turkey and lots of side dishes, and it was all very pleasant. I would have liked to have stayed longer than I did, but had to get home before dark because my failing eyesight isn't up to unlit country roads.
Everyone here always takes a contribution to a meal and I made our traditional (traditional in my family, that is) smoked salmon appetisers. I also knocked up some cheese sausages, but didn't think they were up to scratch so ate them myself.
Black Friday.........
The biggest shopping day of the year. President Lincoln designated the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day, then in 1939 during the Great Depression Thanksgiving happened to fall during the 5th week of November, and retailers protested that the holiday shopping season was too short. (I wondered why folks didn't start their Christmas shopping in August, like we do) so in 1941 Congress passed a law making it the fourth Thursday.
In the 1950s, people began calling in sick the day after Thanksgiving, essentially giving themselves a four-day weekend. Since stores were open, as were most businesses, those playing hooky could also get a head start on their holiday shopping and rather than try to determine whose pay should be cut, and who was legitimately sick, many businesses started adding that day as another paid holiday.
I certainly haven't been out shopping. Even had I wanted to the weather is now bitterly cold, and very, very wet. Not that I'd dare complain, mind you, of rain in this drought stricken state.
The geriatric cat seems to have been a bit lethargic lately, she has slowed down somewhat lately, but today has spent the whole day on the computer room sofa. She did venture on to my chair in front of the computer and I tossed her off - I'm feeling very bad about that now.
I've been watching television, normal programming was suspended for most of the day because there was a serious hostage situation at a Planned Parenthood Clinic - a women's' health and abortion clinic. It has been in the news lately because an undercover investigator found they were selling foetal tissue body parts, but I don't know if that had anything to do with today's situation.
After several hours the gunman was taken into custody, but sadly a police officer and two civilians were killed, and quite a few casualties have been hospitalised. To date we haven't been told the motive of the gunman.
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