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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Grainne who wrote (13782)	11/22/1997 5:26:00 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Christine! Although it's not quite Thanksgiving, what hit me yesterday when I was downtown was that the merchants want ya to believe that it's really Christmas!!!! I get the feeling that only people with family, and, in particular, extended family celebrate Turkey Day!!! PS: I'll handle the guys!!!! :)

To: Grainne who wrote (13782)	11/22/1997 6:59:00 PM
From: James R. Barrett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi Christine, I see you are ready for Thanksgiving. We are almost ready. My wife and I drove over to our local turkey farm and picked out a beautiful 19 pound hen turkey. She looks very healthy and tender. The farmer said she has been on a special diet so she will have more white meat per pound. We saw the hen's five children, three boys and two girls. They were playing with an ear of corn and running around the barnyard. They are so cute when they're children. We told the farmer to save us one of the females for next years' dinner. The farmer put our hen in a room on death row. The room was very clean and well lit. Condemned turkeys get special treats to eat during their final days. I thought that was rather nice. She will be executed at 6AM Wednesday in the normal manner. (death by hatchet) She seemed well prepared for her coming demise. The farmer was very thoughtful and had music piped into the room. A beautiful version of Amazing Grace was playing. My wife started crying so he changed it to Turkey in the Straw which is rather lively. We left death row and went back out to the barnyard. The hen's husband Tom was sobbing uncontrolably. The farmer said Tom goes through this every year and should be used to it by now. Tom is what they call a breeder turkey and will never wind up on someone's dinner table. Tom perked up when the farmer gave him his new wife a cute young hen with beautiful matching feathers. Tom looked very happy now and appeared to have already forgotten about his unfortunate wife on death row. I asked the farmer why Tom, who had some gray feathers, was the breeder instead of one of the younger males. He said it was because Tom's ring size is 12 1/2 and no other male is even close. We paid the farmer and told him we'd be back Wed. night to pick up the corpse. He promised us she would be delicious so we said goodby and left. As we were pulling out of the driveway my wife said "maybe we should have ham next year". Happy Thanksgiving Christine, Jim