HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

GIVE THANKS FOR THE CONSTITUTION AND THE RULE OF LAW

"LAKE SMOKE" RISING FROM THE STILL-UNFROZEN WATERS OF THE  CHANNEL

Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, 9:45 AM.  8 degrees F, up from 4 degrees earlier. Wind SW, mostly calm. The sky is mainly clear except for billowing clouds of "lake smoke" (steam) rising from the still open water of the channel.  The humidity is 83%, the barometer high, at 30.45" but leveling off and beginning to turn down again.
   We had intended to visit oldest daughter Greta in Ohio for Thanksgiving but we all decided that the weather was just too threatening to make the trip.  Common sense has prevailed, but we are disappointed at not being among family on this universal holiday.
   So, we will celebrate the day by driving out to the Village Inn in Cornucopia for dinner, and friend Claire from church, who is also alone for Thanksgiving, will join us.
   The cold,  and several inches of new snow that needed shoveling,  precluded going deer hunting this morning, but I may head out for a bit later.  It looks like tomorrow will be a snow day, but the weekend weather looks promising.
   Despite all the curtailing of plans and all the attendant bad weather, we are thankful for countless blessings on this Thanksgiving Day, which finds ourselves and family members generally healthy,  relatively prosperous and quite happy.  We especially celebrate the fundamental liberties we enjoy as Americans under the Constitution and the Rule of Law, without which we would live in poverty, misery and anarchy.
  And above all we thank God for establishing us and our heirs in this land of freedom and opportunity, and we pray for these our blessings to be extended to all people of good will, in our own country and throughout the world.
   Happy Thanksgiving!