Be safe and joyous this holiday season, eat lots of goodies and hibernate like some of your plants do.

Tim

I'll be at an Asian buffet tomorrow eating sushi & seafood.

I have a lot to be thankful for.

So it IS a Happy Thanksgiving for me! You guys also please enjoy yours with your loved ones.....

MangoDog

MangoDog -

My last Keitt and Lancetilla will be clipped next week. I think they are ready. I'll have a Mallika left over and that should be ready by the middle of Dec.

JF

MangoDog

Here is a pic of my last Lancetilla(2.84 pounds) this time I'm going to let it sit for however long it takes to ripe.

Here are Pilgrims and Indians sitting down together at an autumn harvest meal of
thanksgiving. Did the really happen, I don't know.
The Thanksgiving we celebrate today was declared by President George Washington
in 1789
From Wikipedia:

As President, on October 3, 1789, George Washington made the following
proclamation and created the first Thanksgiving Day designated by the national
government of the United States of America:

Whereas it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of
Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly
to implore his protection and favor, and whereas both Houses of Congress
have by their joint Committee requested me "to recommend to the People
of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer to be observed
by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God
especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of
government for their safety and happiness. Now therefore I do recommend and
assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of
these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the
beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be. That
we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks,
for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to
their becoming a Nation, for the signal and manifold mercies, and the
favorable interpositions of his providence, which we experienced in the
course and conclusion of the late war, for the great degree of tranquility,
union, and plenty, which we have since enjoyed, for the peaceable and
rational manner, in which we have been enabled to establish constitutions of
government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One
now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are
blessed; and the means we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;
and in general for all the great and various favors which he hath been
pleased to confer upon us. And also that we may then unite in most humbly
offering our prayers and supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of
Nations and beseech him to pardon our national and other transgressions, to
enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several
and relative duties properly and punctually, to render our national
government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of
wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and
obeyed, to protect and guide all Sovereigns and Nations (especially such as
have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good government, peace,
and concord. To promote the knowledge and practice of true religion and
virtue, and the encrease of science among them and Us, and generally to
grant unto all Mankind such a degree of temporal prosperity as he alone
knows to be best. Given under my hand at the City of New York the third day
of October in the year of our Lord 1789.^[21]

JF - I'm telling you, your Keitt must have been a poor step-child of the Keitt family because mine was royally fantastic! And perhaps it's the desert environment that produces such a wonderful fruit.....

but then again, with only 2 varieties to compare so far (well actually 3 counting the Rosigold from last year, which would now be in 2nd place) I should withold judgements for later......

Cheerio on this Hot Weekend in SoCal everyone!

mangopoodle

As far as I'm concerned, Washington's Proclamation says it all, about what Thanksgiving Day in America means in addition to this being a time for family get togethers

"I consider the Government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution of the United States from meddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises.... But it is only proposed that I should recommend, not prescribe, a day of fasting and praying. That is, I should indirectly assume to the United States an authority over religious exercises, which the Constitution has directly precluded them from.... Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents."

Here is a good piece on GW
George Washington, The Revolutionary Farmer:
America's First Composter

A knowing farmer, who, Midas like, can convert
everything he touches into manure,
as the first transmutation towards gold.

--G. Washington (1785)

Thomas Jefferson a skeptic? http://www.wnd.com/index.php?pageId=14285

I said Keitt is an excellent mango...mine was very sweet and fiberless.

Yes it's warm! yesterday 87F today 90F and the forecast calls for more of the same until Wednesday. Great way to end November and begin winter.

JF

Samuel Forest