And if you've never experienced Thanksgiving Day, it is without doubt the most American of holidays. We celebrate it through equal parts sloth and overeating, with the following day devoted to shopping. This festival day expresses our national ethos in a way that the Fourth of July never will.
(I will be eating Cheerios and going out early to shoot photographs. I am a very odd sort of American.)
"On the other hand," thought Brenda,
"I bet I could store at least three balls of worsted in there."
"I bet I could store at least three balls of worsted in there."
I love the cartoons. I smell a book deal!
ReplyDeleteactually eating cheerios and shooting photos sounds like the freedom we may sometimes take for granted doesn't it? love the rodeo pix, used to attend amatuer (sp?) rodeo in central florida when i was a young girl. that is real sport.
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I love the cartoon! And I'm betting if it was a good-sized turkey and you packed it tight, you could get six balls of wool in there ...
ReplyDeleteno you won't, you'll be upstairs at my place eating real food!
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ReplyDeleteHave a great holiday!
ah, Franklin. You have me making un-ladylike snorting noises again.
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving to you ...
i love your knitty witticisms... ! i hope you find some time to have some of the food (screw the turkey, but the potatoes, dressing, and desserts are all requirements). Happy gobble gobble day!
ReplyDeleteI'm spending four hours in school while my kid eats pizza with my husband.
ReplyDeletePizza box. Hmm. Would have to be flat skeins...
Happy Turkey Day!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving Franklin. And may I say that cartoon takes 'creative stashing' to new, and slightly disturbing heights. ;o)
ReplyDeleteyet another good cartoon.
ReplyDeleteHope you have a good Thanksgiving day. I spent this morning remembering some of the better fiascos of cooking t-giving dinner. All for the blog of course. I certainly wouldn't share those stories with the actual people who created the fiascos. ;-)
I second the book deal.
At least you are having cheerios and not turkey and stuffing flavored soda pop. ICK!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove the cartoon!!!!
Dear Franklin, one day we will meet. At what exhibition? Poussin? Degas? Raphael? You can see the direction in which my husband's enthusiasm tends. Thanks for your comment on my blog, and Happy Thanksgiving. I've posted a comment somewhere -- I think it must be on Mar's -- about my own annual delight at being spared the ordeal, and my son Alexander's astonished pleasure when he was (after several Thanksgivings spent as you describe your own) finally coaxed indoors and made to sit at a table with a turkey on it.
ReplyDeleteClever poodle!
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your restful, low-expectational holiday. I can relate.
So thankful am I fer u.
The drawing is hilarious. Thanks for the giggle. Enjoy your day, I'm sure if cheerios were around back then that they Pilgrims would've eaten them as well.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy both sloth and overeating and have, as a result, always liked Thanksgiving. The Friday shopping day can always be ignored. Enjoy the cheerios.
ReplyDeleteas usual, hon, you hit it right on--both in terms of the 'true American holiday' and yarn stash! Enjoy your Cheerios & photo shoot--we'll be interested in how it goes!
ReplyDelete...and a happy, happy T-day to you too, Franklin dear!
ReplyDeleteI love you Franklin, that cartoon is SO ILL!
ReplyDeleteI had lobster. I stopped eating Turkey a while back.
I think you should have celebrated by eating photographs and shooting cheerios. That would have been more interesting.
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I like the drawing of the cartoon.
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