So many of us are staying home this year due to Covid-19, and a number of friends aren't excited about fixing a big turkey dinner - for two people. Not a problem here - even when we've gone elsewhere in the past, I still return home to make a turkey dinner for the two of us. We love the leftovers!
Following are two vintage postcards. The first is a menu of a "Grand Dinner In Honor of Thanksgiving" featuring oyster stew, fish, turkey, sweet potatoes, crisp celery (glad to hear it wasn't wilted celery!) and for dessert, apples and pumpkin pie with coffee. I like that the menu also includes the "Toast" - "Let Thanksgiving pleasure Be memories best treasure." Good thought!
This card would have been published in about 1910.
Because of Covid-19, air travel is NOT advised. Thus, the following postcard is particularly fun. It was given to United Airlines passengers on Thanksgiving Day 1964. Printed on the back: "Thanksgiving Greetings from aloft...aboard a United Air Lines Mainliner, Thanksgiving Day, 1964." It is also noted that United Air Lines was "The Airline of Sports Champions." Who knew?!?
For the flight, passengers were treated to shrimp cocktail, wafers, roast Vermont turkey, cornbread stuffing, giblet gravy, glazed sweet potatoes, buttered green peas, crisp roll, cranberry sauce, mayonnaise dressing, pumpkin tartelette and tea. What a meal!
Here is a random cartoon to follow these big meals.
Despite the many, many problems we're facing now, Thanksgiving is a good time to remember the good things we have in our lives - big and small. A few thoughts for you to reflect on this particular Thanksgiving Day:
* Enjoy the little things in life, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
* Life is a continuous process of getting used to things we haven't expected.
* When life gives you 100 reasons to cry, show life that you have 1,000 reasons to smile.
* A positive attitude is a magnet for positive results.
* Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right.
* The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
* The grass isn't greener over there. It's greener where you water it.
* Life is a bumpy road, and laughter is your best shock absorber.
HAVE A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING DAY EVERYONE. ENJOY THE VARIETY LIFE HAS TO OFFER. LOVE, ADINA
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