I still have to throw together a quick giblet dressing to stuff inside the turkey but that's about all except for the regular chores of peeling potatoes, making gravy, setting the table, etc. Think I'm gonna turn the parade on tv and kick back and relax for a while. I boiled up the giblets yesterday afternoon and thought I'd treat Sammy to the turkey heart. Found it later on the carpet so I guess he didn't think it tasted all that swell. Ha Ha
Found some interesting Thanksgiving facts online so guess I'll share them and get off the computer for a while.
The first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in 1924 drew a quarter of a million people and featured costumed Macy's employees, professional bands, and animals from Central Park Zoo. Today, over 3 million people attend the parade, and another 44 million tune in on the tube.Giant helium balloons were added to Macy's parade in 1927. While Macy's planned to release them into the sky following the parade, the balloons popped on their ascent. The following year, the release was successful, and the balloons floated above the region for several days. Any kid lucky enough to find one of the deflated balloons thereafter received a free gift from the department store.
In 1939, President Franklin D. Roosevelt moved Thanksgiving to the third Thursday of the month in an effort to spur shopping during The Great Depression. Met with vast public opposition, Roosevelt was forced to change the holiday back to the last Thursday in November just two years later.
Though Thomas Jefferson selected the bald eagle as our national bird, Benjamin Franklin thought the turkey was a better candidate. A "bird of courage," a turkey, Franklin believed, "would not hesitate to attack a grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm yard." In comparison, he said the eagle had "bad moral character" and played a lesser role in early American life.
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