Martina McBride – Blessed
An evening pause: For Thanksgiving.
I have been blessed
With so much more than I deserve
To be here with the ones that love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed, oh yeah
I have been blessed, oh yeah, yeah
Hat tip Dan Morris.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
An evening pause: For Thanksgiving.
I have been blessed
With so much more than I deserve
To be here with the ones that love me
To love them so much it hurts
I have been blessed, oh yeah
I have been blessed, oh yeah, yeah
Hat tip Dan Morris.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
“A Day of Thanksgiving” (1951)
Centron Films, Lawrence Kansas
https://archive.org/details/DayofTha1951
“An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful….”
Approximate retail price for turkey in 1951 = $0.49/lb. which equates to $5.21/lb. in today’s money.
“A Day of Thanksgiving” (1951)
Centron Films, Lawrence Kansas
https://archive.org/details/DayofTha1951
“An American family unable to afford a Thanksgiving turkey reviews the things for which they feel thankful….”
Approximate retail price for turkey in 1951 = $0.49/lb. which equates to $5.21/lb. in today’s money.
–sorry ’bout that double-post–need to replace my mouse.
“Approximate retail price for turkey in 1951 = $0.49/lb”
Wow. The cheapest turkey I could find (online) is $1.39/lb, or $0.13/lb in 1951 dollars. I can understand why Turkey has traditionally been a Big Deal: it was expensive. Now, what does a Goose go for on Christmas Day. . . ?
Blair-
–yeah, a medium sized turkey would have cost him the equivalent of $50, out of his 1951 paycheck.
Goose, great question– I’m seeing $7-9/lb for “commercial domestic goose, whole-medium 10lb average” but that appears to be highly regional compared to turkey, which is fairly ubiquitous. [Publix supermarkets has them at select locations.]
Our regional huge-box grocery chain had delivery delays, but eventually offered store-brand ‘generic’ at $0.33/bl & $1.29/lb. but you could drop $7+/lb for The free-range organic brand-name….
Whole domestic (frozen) Duck was in plentiful supply at $6.99/lb.
I’m not American, I’ve never eaten a turkey, the naming of which bird is a misunderstanding. In the town where I live we have a company, Aimpoint, that manufactures parallax free sights for rifles used to hit their throats. As it was explained to me that turkeys are hunted. If one hits the almost empty birdy bodies they just run away before they die. It has something to do with a laser dot in the optics, I can’t figure out how it works. But I ate fried Baltic Herring today (I think it’s called in English, the naming of them is confused in Sweden too). One simply use nets or hooks to catch them. Although dynamite would probably also work.
I saw this talk that is a resumé of the Mars rovers with nice imagery explained by a guy who’s involved with those vehicles far away:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2cq_3wC1w
Virginia at Kroger’s:
Whole frozen duck $ 2.49/lb
About $15 a ?️ bird.
serendipitously— had a flock of Turkey walk (trot?) down my road this afternoon, I stopped counting at 30.
Localfluff–
If I’m recalling correctly, Turkeys are only native to North America and parts of Mexico, and they were an early contender for our National Bird.
This Past Weekend w/ Theo Von Number 367
Turkey Farmer Robert Hupman
https://youtu.be/NTBY15cxUQI
1:29:08
Alton–
thanks for that, good price.
Have you ever had a Turduckin? (chicken stuffed inside a duck, stuffed inside a turkey)
“Theo Von’s Owl Moment”
Joe Rogan Experience 1225
https://youtu.be/GAwITnMtJfM
1:50
Wayne:.
No never had a turkducken but always wanted to try one;
But several times I have travelled home on a Friday by Washington DC, many times I would stop at Chinatown, there was a small shop that cooked several dozen ducks each weekend, many for parties in the Capital.
They were delicious doubled!!