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Friday/Saturday (11.25/26)
I'm thankful to be with family, not shoppers

Lois and I, as well as Faith, Mike, and granddaughter Hannah, are at the Watkins homestead in Battle Creek for our annual Thanksgiving feast. I'm grateful to be with family and, on this busiest shopping day of the year, thankful to be hours and miles from the nearest 5:00 am "Early-Bird" sale!
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LOIS FARRA WATKINS

Thankgiving Day (11.24)
I'm thankful for a great wife

Happy birthday to Lois Farra Watkins who turns [deleted] on Thanksgiving Day. Here's the song I wrote for her walk down the aisle:

Lois

1. If I could write the love inside,
Pen the feelings that abide,
I'd send a letter, address it to you.
If I could draw the love I feel,
Sketch the love I know is real,
I'd paint that picture, I'd frame it for you.

[chorus]
And yet I never seem to find,
The way to say, "I'm glad you're mine."
To say how much I love you.

2. If I could write a song or two,
Find a rhyme for "I love you."
I'd write that song, I'd sing it for you.
But I can show you by my life,
Live these thoughts through joy and strife,
I'll try my love, I'll live them for you.

[chorus]

© 1973 James N. Watkins
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Wednesday (11.23)
I'm thankful for funny friends

What fun to be part of the Christian Humor Writers list serve. Where else would you find people who write books titled: In The Beginning . . . There Were No Diapers, My Lima Beans Are Allergic to My Spoon, Days of Whine and Noses, Amusing Grace and Turkey Soup For the Soul?
- Click here for laughs



JIM AND TURKEYS

Tuesday (11.22)
I'm thankful I'm not a turkey

I'll admit I'm not the smartest bird, but I'm thankful I'm not a turkey—at least not the Melgris Gallopavos variety. Turkeys' IQs are only slightly higher than Stove Top Stuffing and they often die of pneumonia from not coming in from the rain.
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Monday (11.21)
I'm thankful for these top ten things

This week's theme is Thanksgiving. So, direct from my home office, here are the top ten things for which to give thanks—right now—no matter how many terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things are happening in your and my life.
- Top ten things for which to give thanks
- Why do terrible, horrible, no good, very bad things happen?



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