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A WoodChips Thanksgiving

Many tree rings ago, in about 1620 more or less, there was a small
forest in the old world of England. The trees in this forest wore funny
hats and big shoe buckles on their roots and were known as Pilgrims,
although no one really knows why they were called such an un-tree like
name.

All that aside, life was okay for the PilgrimTrees, but day by day
they grew more discontent in the old Forest. Their unhappiness stemmed
from the fact that they were not allowed freedom of exercise.

 So they decided to split for the New Forest.

Actually, to be historically accurate, they had already split once to
another forest called Holland, a crazy kind of place where the trees
wore wooden shoes which the Pilgrims thought was just too weird.  Worse
yet, in Holland, they had too much freedom to exercise and some of them
were just plum tuckered out.

So split they wood, yet again, for a forest far across the ocean
called America. That decided, they went shopping for a big boat from a
used boat salesman called Sir Woody. The whole negotiation was pretty
iffy until Woody made up a cute name for the boat and told the Pilgrims
it was called the Mayflower.

The Pilgrims really liked that, so they sealed the deal, hopped aboard and set sail for the New Forest across the ocean.

Their voyage was long and they sailed through many storms, the trees
swaying back and forth in the breeze to keep their balance.  After many
months, as they neared the shores of the New American Forest, another
storm came up.  As the wind howled through the mast trees, the sky
became very dark, so dark in fact that the Captain couldn’t see where he
was going and they crashed into a big rock.  Fortunately, their used
boat didn’t sink, and as the storm passed, the sky lightened so they
could see where they were.

To their amazement, the big rock they’d crashed into had … click for more Thanksgiving Rocks

Have a great international day – J. Daniel

P.S. Below is the full list … I know, there are really 87

Ha!  Known as a stump speech, I guess.  Has a “way too familiar” feel to it this political season in the United States – J. Daniel