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A post by Muse yesterday mentioned Abraham Lincoln’s Proclamation of Thanksgiving, of which I don’t recall ever being mentioned in our textbooks in school. Maybe it was and I just can’t remember, but I took it upon myself to look it up last night and read it.
I never really thought about what the reasoning was behind Thanksgiving falling on a Thursday. This explains it:
I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens.
This morning after breakfast we went out and rode around for a few hours with my parents. This used to be an almost every Sunday thing when we were growing up. Down here in the south we call it ‘loafering’, meaning just riding around with no place in particular to go.
Anyways, the lowest price I’ve seen for gas in quite a while was today, and it was $1.69/gal. I had to fill up a couple of days ago and it only costed $25 for a full tank, compared to the near $60 that it was a few weeks ago when the prices were spiked and we were having some shortages around here. It’s like a co-worker of mine said, the large drop in prices makes it almost seem like getting a pay increase. I’m lucky enough to live close to where I work, about 4-5 miles, so filling up isn’t something that I have to do nearly as often as most. But I can imagine how nice the drop seems to those people that are having to fill up every 2-3 days.
Making the best of a few days on St. Simon’s Island for some meetings for work.
A few photos from this set
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