Post-Thanksgiving blog waddling
Dragged myself out of the turkey induced coma just to do this round up.
Well, no, not really. The dogs took care of dragging me out of my food coma. A dog licking you on the face is very hard to ignore in the mornings.
Hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving day with lots of good food and family to share with.
Is anybody interested in another Bowen’s Island meetup some day during the week of Dec 7?
Charleston photographers, are you interested in sharing your work and helping people out this holiday season? Check out the Help-Portrait project. Someone’s already working on organizing a Help-Portrait Charleston, so check it out and join in!
If you head over to the SC Aquarium this weekend, you’ll have the opportunity to get up close to one or two of the penguins as they hit the floor in their new Waddle Wagon!
Waddle Wagon!! http://ow.ly/FCkj on Twitpic
There are lots of things that local bloggers were thankful for yesterday.
Cats on Thanksgiving
Photo from Kittens on the Keyboard
Joan caught the Thanksgiving Turkey day run on her foggy morning walk yesterday.
Ian provides a few tips for dealing with holiday stress.
When you’re done munching on the turkey you had for Thanksgiving (or whatever you ended up eating yesterday), you can head over to Francis Beidler Forest to do some turkey spotting.
Occasionally along the boardwalk, Wild Turkeys can be spotted where the boardwalk runs through higher, drier forest (markers 101-116) or where the boardwalk runs parallel to the swamp’s edge (markers 154-181). However, as the image shows, the birds are not opposed to walking through the swamp, especially when a crop of acorns have fallen to the ground. If you miss seeing the birds while on the boardwalk, you might see them moving through the fields on either side of our driveway or the roads approaching Beidler Forest.
If relaxing at home and avoiding today’s shopping insanitycrowd is more your thing, how about a round of speed Scrabble?
Alison reminds us that we should also be thankful for Sarah Hale, who was responsible for making Thanksgiving an official national holiday.
For years Americans had celebrated Thanksgiving, but there hadn’t been a set date for it, and it wasn’t an official national holiday. The only official American holiday was July 4. Starting in the late 1830s, Hale started lobbying American presidents to make Thanksgiving our second national holiday. She was editor of Godey’s Lady’s Book, the most popular magazine of the 19th c, so she had some clout, but it still took her a hell of a long time. In 1863, Abraham Lincoln finally agreed to designate Thanksgiving a national holiday, since he and Hale saw it as an important symbolic gesture of national unity during the Civil War.
Have a good post-Thanksgiving everybody. I’m going back to my turkey induced coma for a few more hours.