Alice's Restaurant - A Thanksgiving Tradition

A family tradition was to listen to "Alice's Restaurant" as we drove home for Thanksgiving. We don't do much driving on the holiday but we still listen to the song.

Arlo Guthrie in 2007 - Globe Photo

The Boston Globe has an article on "50 Things about Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant"

"You’ve heard the song, no doubt. So here are some fun facts, collected from interviews Guthrie has given and stories about the song over the years. 

The song is 18 minutes 34 seconds long, give or take a minute depending on his pace. 

The length of the song is the exact same length as the gap in the Nixon Watergate tapes, and Guthrie has often quipped that the song may explain that silence in the infamous tapes."

missed the 13th

Reflections on missing Friday the 13th and looking ahead to Thanksgiving

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one leaf just hanging in there!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I am quite proud to be part of the Franklin community today.

just before the start of the race/walk


The Feed the Need Turkey Trot 5K race/walk drew over 300 participants who combined to fill the Franklin Food Pantry van with goods

and raise over $5,000 to help our neighbors!


This is a great start to Thanksgiving! I have so much to be grateful for. I wish you and your family all the best!

Happy Thanksgiving!

As we sit down to Thanksgiving dinner today, let's pause a moment or two to give thanks for what we do have.



Enjoy!

A Thanksgiving Tradition

One of our family traditions on Thanksgiving is to listen to this on our way to the family gathering.




If you're traveling, drive safely.

Have a great Thanksgiving!

Thanks to WriterJax for the link to the video

This was also crossposted to Franklin Matters

And the angel takes her place

In the 'many hands make light work' category, the family divides the duties for preparing the house for Christmas. Dolores takes down the ones from Thanksgiving and sets out the Christmas decorations. I take care of setting up the tree.

I string the lights on it and then do a single light in the front windows. The girls usually alternate turns in putting the angel on the top. Allison was out to a movie with her cousin and Carolyn was in Greece so I had to place the angel then string the lights from that plug. Now the tree will be ready for the remainder of the decorations.

The girls join in decorating the tree. This year, Allison will have the lead with Carolyn providing some advice via Skype from Greece.

Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving Day

This is just one time of many where we pause to give thanks.

I have so much to be thankful for I could write for some time and still miss someone or something.

I am thankful

for my wife Dolores and daughters Allison and Carolyn 

for my family

for my friends

for my work compatriots

for my network buddies

I appreciate your stopping by to read

and especially those who linger long enough to comment

or to drop me an email

I am thankful for just being able

"One is never alone if size is not important"

On reflection, they were fine guests. They came on time, ate with enthusiasm, and went away at a decent hour. They were quiet but lively. They cleaned up after themselves. There seemed to be only cooperation among them - no unpleasant fights or passive aggression.

Who were these guests?

Click through to read about Robert Fulghum's Thanskgiving guests.

Turkey day

the bird is done and ready to be cut and sliced for eating.

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Alice's Restaurant

One of our family traditions is to listen to Arlo Guthrie's Alice's Restaurant on the way to Dolores' mother's house.

The YouTube version of this can be found here

Whatever tradition you follow on this day, may it be a good day!

Enjoy!

Rapid Fire Learning

It is that time of month again when one can stop, and reflect on what has happened, and realize how much we have learned amidst all that has transpired.

1 - Franklin Matters - I split off my writing about Franklin, MA to a new blog. No, it does not go counter to my move for simplicity, I think it actually helps it. I love that the focus on Franklin Matters will be all things Franklin. Steve's 2 Cents will revert to being the combination of the rest of me not already covered elsewhere.

2 - If we but look around us, how much can we find? I found "All things Sherlock" and my namesake is archaeologist with a major Anglo-Saxon find. There is another Franklin Matters, about Franklin, TN.

3 - Podcast feed problems can be tricky. Especially when the root cause was a single desktop system somewhere that was attempting to down load two of my podcasts multiple times but only partly each time. Since the number of times exceeded 18,000 in each case, it must have been some rogue program and not someone who listened to the sound of my voice. :-)

4 - Collaboration creates new words. Troy Worman started his On! Blog Meme. I added a few and posted it on Thanksgiving as a link love post, Connie Reece called it "Thankslinking". How cool is that!

5 - 19 syllables is sometimes all that is necessary to condense a book. I found several good quotes from Madeleine L'Engles' book A Circle of Quiet which I sprinkled around here, here, here and here. Then after finishing the book one night, I laid down to go to sleep and found my mind racing. I leaped up to write those thoughts down before they disappeared into the ether or where ever they go and ended up with this.

What did you learn this month?

Thanskgiving Day - 2007

Thanskgiving Day - 2007, originally uploaded by shersteve.

The Sherlock's are gathering at our place later today to continue our Thanksgiving celebration. Here is a sample of what it looked like when the Proulx daughters gathered. Clockwise from the top left corner:

• The table was set for all to sit together. No kids table this year
• The serving plates were all marked for what was meant to go in them. This made it easy for many hands to make light work
• The ladies conversed before dinner
• The turkey just before being carved

A good time was had by all.

How was your Thanksgiving?

Joyful Jubilant Thanksgiving

The Joyful Jubilant Learning group has collaborated on their Thanksgiving greeting. Click on over to see some reasons to be thankful for on this day!

Yes, I did contribute!

Link Love on Thanksgiving!

How to best give thanks on Thanksgiving?
I think link love works well!

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After enjoying the meal, sit back, relax, and explore a site or two to feed your mind.