Happy Thanksgiving day.

Thanksgiving Day in the United States is a holiday on the fourth Thursday of November. It precedes Black Friday. 

Thanksgiving Day is a federal holiday in the United States.

 What do people do?

Thanksgiving Day is traditionally a day for families and friends to get together for a special meal. The meal often includes a turkey, stuffing, potatoes, cranberry sauce, gravy, pumpkin pie, and vegetables. Thanksgiving Day is a time for many people to give thanks for what they have.

Thanksgiving Day parades are held in some cities and towns on or around Thanksgiving Day. Some parades or festivities also mark the opening of the Christmas shopping season. Some people have a four-day weekend so it is a popular time for trips and to visit family and friends.

  Public life

 Most government offices, businesses, schools and other organizations are closed on Thanksgiving Day. Many offices and businesses allow staff to have a four-day weekend so these offices and businesses are also closed on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day. Public transit systems do not usually operate on their regular timetables.

Thanksgiving Day it is one of the busiest periods for travel in the USA. This can cause congestion and overcrowding. Seasonal parades and busy football games can cause disruption to local traffic.

 Background

Thanksgiving Day has been an annual holiday in the United States since 1863. Not everyone sees Thanksgiving Day as a cause for celebration. Each year since 1970, a group of Native Americans and their supporters have staged a protest for a National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts on Thanksgiving Day. American Indian Heritage Day is also observed at this time of the year.

 There are claims that the first Thanksgiving Day was held in the city of El Paso, Texas in 1598. Another early event was held in 1619 in the Virginia Colony. Many people trace the origins of the modern Thanksgiving Day to the harvest celebration that the Pilgrims held in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1621. However, their first true thanksgiving was in 1623, when they gave thanks for rain that ended a drought. These early thanksgivings took the form of a special church service, rather than a feast.

In the second half of the 1600s, thanksgivings after the harvest became more common and started to become annual events. However, it was celebrated on different days in different communities and in some places there were more than one thanksgiving each year. George Washington, the first president of the United States, proclaimed the first national Thanksgiving Day in 1789.

 I think the UK should adopt thanksgiving Day.

Here are my reasons.

1) We'd get to eat Turkey. You can never have to much Turkey just ask Sheba and Cody.

2) We would get to have an extra bank holiday and it would be on a Thursday which would make a nice change from the usual Monday or Friday. You can never have to many bank holidays.

3) It’d be an opportunity to all get together and do the one thing we don’t do enough of – give thanks for everything we love and are grateful for. Be they friends, family, neighbours or pets. And what is worth celebrating more than that?

4) It would make Christmas so much easier. Because it is so close to Christmas  it would save arguments of who you're visiting for Christmas. You could visit one set of parents for Thanksgiving and the other for Christmas.

Wordless Wednesday. (No Blogging today.)

How am i supposed to work, when Cody wants to keep warm on the Laptop.

Cody's new play mate.

I was just going out for my morning walk, when this strange cat pushed past us and walked through the front door as if he lived there.

He must of been one of Cody's friends who Cody had met on his travels. Because they seemed very friendly to each other.

I think Dad took a bit of a liking as well.