Favorite holiday traditions

[birddog 68]

As others noted tradition's usually fade away with time.
My fondest thanksgiving tradition was heading to northern Pennsylvania for the buck season opener on the following Monday. My uncle had a large camp and there were many people. Rifles were sighted in and then lots of food! He's passed and the camp sold.
Years later I would always take my dog and go pheasant hunting. Just me and my BFF wondering around hunting new ground. Unfortunately my dog was forced into a early retirement.
Nowadays it's just me the wife and my mother eating a big turkey dinner and being thankful for everything that we have.
My thanks to LRH, I've met some wonderful people here and many friends.
Happy Thanksgiving!

 

[Crockett12]

I'm now 78 years old but when I was younger, I moved far away from my family. One of our family traditions had been for everyone to have Thanksgiving dinner at grandma's house and catch up on everyone's lives! It was always an enjoyable time with a warm and welcoming family! They were all in the east but I'd always dreamed of living & hunting in the wide open spaces of the west -- so when I had the opportunity in my mid 20's, I moved west - into the far west. The one holiday that was always the most difficult for me was always Thanksgiving. I did make friends who occasionally included me into their Thanksgiving dinners -- but it was never quite the same -- even though it certainly helped and I'll always be thankful for them including me! I eventually married a woman many years later with a family of her own and now I'm included in their own warm and welcoming family! I'll never forget those alone times during Thanksgiving which is why I am so thankful for my adopted family!

 

[eastbank]

growing up on our farm we had a pretty large get togather with the relitives and a few of us would hunt rabbits in the morning and be back for a large dinner(three turkeys) with all the trimmings, this went on for over 25 years. but as the older one,s died it slowed down and with the passing of my mother in 2003 and dad in 2007 it all but died out. now at 81 i enjoy going to my oldest daughters home and having only direct familey members there for the thanksgiving dinner. i do miss the old days very much.

 

[Ace Quackhunter]

Getting up at 4:00 a.m. to check on the turkey that I started smoking the evening before. Depending on the weather would go hunt deer for a few hours that morning and check on the turkey when I return. When crew starts to show up around noon or later, we gather Infront of the big screen for some football. Later when the wife makes her announcement, we gather at the table to bow our heads and give thanks. So, after eating way too much I will lay in the floor with a pillow under my head and my eyes closed as I watch football.

Ace

 

[TRexF16]

Not much tradition at our place, but I'll be leaving on Thanksgiving day for Coues whitetail hunting in south AZ. I'd like to make THAT a tradition but you gotta get drawn for that to happen!

Rex