Thanksgiving 2020

hardee · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 9:30 pm Post subject: Thanksgiving 2020

Happy Thanksgiving 2020

Just want to say thank you to the guys that keep this place in order, and keep the lights on in the pub. You are appreciated.

And want to say thanks to all of you who join in an keep it lively, informative and friendly, Yup, that's to you if you are reading this, you are a part of the C-BRAT family and if you didn't sign in to read this, you are missing out on some of the advantages, but take your time and enjoy. Eventually it gets habit forming and when that happens you jare welcome here then, too.

This has been some kind of a Crazy year in plenty of wierd ways, but if you are reading this you have survived Covid, Isolation, Politics, Economy and Crazyness in some way or another. Glad you are here, stay safe, maintain health and sanity and as we work to wind down this crazy year, lets plan on a better one all the way around for 2021.

Happy Thanksgiving to You.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

DayBreak · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2020 11:59 pm Post subject:

Thank you Harvey,

You sum it up quite well. What more can any of us add. Great thoughts and great hope we all have in our boating adventures for 2021.

Happy Thanksgiving. Keep healthy and stay safe everyone.

RobMcClain · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 9:36 am Post subject:

Very well said Harvey! Happy (& safe) Thanksgiving to all...

Rob

Nancy and Bud · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:03 am Post subject:

+1 Harvey.

Thankful to be alive and looking forward to 2021.

Stay safe.

thataway · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:33 am Post subject:

Happy Thanksgiving to all. Thanks to Harvey for the first message. 2020 has been a difficult year, Covid has touched many of our lives, and caused massive disruption. Yet, C Brats as an extended family are as close as ever. Lets not forget the meaning of Thanksgiving, that we live in a land where anything is possible, we have more freedoms than any other nation and we are the longest surviving "democratic" (Republic) Nation on Earth.

Three hundred and ninety nine years ago the first Thanksgiving was not easy. It has been romanticized; never the less it was the coming together of the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag indigenous people in a uneasy time. Many of the remaining Wampanoag and other indigenous people look at Thanksgiving as a "Day of Mourning ". The Native Americans have been hit particularly hard with COVID. As their ancestors had been decimated by diseases to which they had no immunity. There is a parallel with the entire nation today: an uneasy time, for many of us it will be the first Thanksgiving were we did not share a meal and celebration with family and close friends.

Despite all of the dissension and suffering of this the past year, we all should have hope that 2021 will see a containment of the virus, increased prosperity, drawing together as a nation and peoples. Americans and Canadians do have so much to be thankful for . We still have so much promise as individuals and as a nation.

Our Prayer for all of our extended C Brat family is: Health, prosperity, return to "normal" and tranquility of life.

From Marie, Bob , Angel and Gigi...Hope to see you on the water.

hardee · Posted: Thu Nov 26, 2020 12:46 pm Post subject:

Thank you Bob, for putting it so eloquently, and reminding us that that first Thanksgiving was indeed, tenuous.

Had it not been for some extremly hardy voyagers, good seamanship and some Heavenly guidance, non of us would be here now, well at least not in the same way maybe. Anyway. Yes, This is family here, and though we are not sitting together around a big long table, at least we can share here.

Happy Thanksgiving to each, celebrate in your own way. We have so much to be thankful for.

Harvey
SleepyC Moon

robhwa · Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2020 12:04 pm Post subject:

Sitting here post-Thanksgiving in front of a fire, sipping my coffee and watching a bald eagle rip apart and eat a gull on the float in front of our south Sound home. Messy! I'm sure the eagle is thankful for the meal, but the gulls bothering the eagle clearly aren't. Marcia and I have a lot to be thankful for, including the folks on this list that offer good ideas and advice so easily. I had hoped to meet more people at Friday Harbor and other events this summer, and having much of the fishing season cancelled wasn't much fun either. Perhaps this coming summer we can get back to more normal times. See you on the water!