I am Thankful for....

Jennie@ifish · 11-21-2001, 05:52 AM

I need to read an upper thread today!
Let's please play along with Jennie.
I can hear it now, (Grumble grumble...)
I am thankful for...

The plentiful salmon season.
My family, safe and sound...
David's involvement in jazz band and basketball.
Andrew's wonderful sense of humor and artistic abilities.
Things as simple as my sheep skin slippers with a puppy chewing on them! Ouch!
Join me, k? We all need a lift!
The people on ifish, my extended family who I share something very important in common with!
Jen

Seefood Man · 11-21-2001, 05:56 AM

I am thankful for all the service men and women that are protecting this wonderful country.

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I've never caught a "Trash Fish"

Pete · 11-21-2001, 06:00 AM

A beautiful healthy daughter
A safe and prosperous country
The love of family and friends
100+ days of fishing
A full freezer
Dry firewood

Jennie@ifish · 11-21-2001, 06:02 AM

YAY! More more more more more!

jet · 11-21-2001, 06:38 AM

... A Great Wife that never complains about me Fishing or Hunting weekly.

... 2 great kids that think the neighbor catches bigger an more fish than I,(sometimes so)

... A Free country that allows us all to think freely and choose our own path.

... A warm Lab under my feet while I work away at my desk.

... And 3 cats that can never find a place to put their hairballs (notice the cats are last)

Jet~~~

Fish4Fun · 11-21-2001, 06:46 AM

I am very thankful that my Nephew will be home for the Holidays from Basic Training.

Since I was married last Friday to my best friend I am thankful that she likes to fish. After 25 years of being friends I think it was time. :smile:

Also thankful for a very good year of fishing and hunting.

Hoosier Daddy · 11-21-2001, 06:57 AM

.....stuffing and pie.......and sidedishes....

My new baby girl, wonderful wife, and the fact that I was born in this country.

NAUTI-NOTIONS · 11-21-2001, 07:02 AM

God's gift of another year on this earth
A very healthy and happy family
A great relationship with my dad
though troubled at times "LIFE IS GOOD"
thankful to new found E-mail friends at IFISH(who I hope to meet in person over the next year)

Slow Roll · 11-21-2001, 07:10 AM

Hmm, what am I thankful for? That is a really long list, so I will shorten it.

-A wonderful woman who loves me very much.

-My family who is always there for support.

-Our country and all it stands for.

-My freedom.

-The opportunity to spend oodles of money for the off chance that I might catch a salmon. :tongue:

-This BB for helping me along that path.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!! See you on the water!!

Paul

P.S. Is it a bad thing to want a stuffed salmon instead of turkey for Thanksgiving? :whazzup:

Captain and Marie · 11-21-2001, 07:42 AM

What I'm thankful for is:

My Big sister cooking Thanksgiving Dinner for us!

For stormy weather! So I can slow down and appreciate living!

I get a day off! After 12 months of non-stop work.

What I'm most thankful for is my SUPER STAR Daughter, who gets to come home for Christmas and we three get to go on vacation together! A two week vacation in December! Yahooooo!

No work for two whole weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you tell how happy I am???

My phones will be diconnected! Yahooo!!!

Happy Thanksgiving and Merry Christmas!

Captain Dennis and Marie and Myra :grin: :grin: :grin:

FISH4MORE · 11-21-2001, 08:05 AM

Thankful for Jennie at ifish for such a wonderful board and the monitors also. Thankful for a wife that loves to fish. Thankful for all those men and women that that are out there protecting our wonderful country. Thankful that we have fish to catch. Real themmmm stealies. Yahooooo!

Joe Schwab · 11-21-2001, 08:29 AM

Let's see!!!! Hmmmmm!!!
1. A great family that supports me all the way.
2. 3 wonderful grandkids.
3. 3 talented and successful kids who never ask to borrow money.
4. My wife of 39 years who has put up with more than she should have.
5. A new lab pup.
6. Lifelong friends as well as new found friends.
7. A growing business.
8. The comeback of salmon runs in the Northwest.
9. Meeting Bill and Jennie. What great people!
:smile: :smile: :smile: :smile: :grin: :grin:

Spot · 11-21-2001, 09:00 AM

For rivers that are still healthy enough to allow me the pleasures of Salmon and Steelhead fishing.

Troutinator · 11-21-2001, 09:18 AM

I am thankful for....

My wife and partner in all things who were it not for, all other things would be meaningless.

A country blessed with brave and generous souls, in which one if free to persue darn near anything.

Friends who have shared life and love over the last 40+ years.

A river that I call home water, little changed in several decades. Home to many of the most beautiful fish God created.

I am especially thankful that this river has been fly fishing only and C&R for many years, the results are a river once threatened, returned to it's former granduer.

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fishbait · 11-21-2001, 09:26 AM

To still be alive...
Family...
Friends...
Good fortune...
52 chinooks this year (most were released)

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11-21-2001, 10:26 AM

52 Fishbait? Man, game hog or Disney character with a long nose? :grin:

Giving Thanks
(Author Unknown)

For the hay and the corn and the wheat that is reaped,
For the labor well done, and the barns that are heaped,
For the sun and the dew and the sweet honeycomb,
For the rose and the song and the harvest brought home --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

For the trade and the skill and the wealth in our land,
For the cunning and strength of the workingman's hand,
For the good that our artists and poets have taught,
For the friendship that hope and affection have brought --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

For the homes that with purest affection are blest,
For the season of plenty and well-deserved rest,
For our country extending from sea unto sea;
The land that is known as the "Land of the Free" --
Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving!

Oakie Drifter · 11-21-2001, 10:46 AM

****** makes a post without graphics???? OMG!

Things Im thankful for:
1. My driftboat to float the rivers enjoying the beauty and peace it brings
2. My roomate....the best fishing buddy anyone could have :grin: (Thats Dot, in case you didnt know)
3. Friends Ive made on ifish!
4. Jennie for her web site to say all this
5. My siamese cat that loves me soooo much its pathetic

6. Roomates dog, who also loves me too much :tongue:
7. Living in America and having freedoms--thanks to our brave countrymen and women.
8. Last, thanks for the turkey thats in the fridge, thawing
:grin:

Carver_OR · 11-21-2001, 12:32 PM

I'm thank full for many things like...
My health, to truly love and be loved by my family, to be born is such a wonderfull country and growing up in Oregon, for my wife of 32 years that supports and encourages me to fish, to have a dog that makes me smile, and to wake and have my morning coffee with the Ifish gang.

Sharp hooks hook fish,

Pat

fishinfool · 11-21-2001, 01:07 PM

Thankful For:
...My health and the health of my wife and family.
...The doctor that found my Grandpa's bad heart valve and did the operation that probably saved his life
...Living in the country where we are free and have so many people to defend her.
...Getting to again salmon fish with my father after many years
...the oppurtunity to help a friend catch his very first salmon.
...Jennie for running an awesome fishing board.
...Fellow Ifishers who answered every question I had no matter how silly they thought it was, and for the wealth of knowledge they share on this board
...My Job that allows me to have all my "TOYS"
...Having great friends
...I am alive...

Screaminreelron · 11-21-2001, 01:56 PM

Thankful for the Good Lord who loves me and watches out for me and the AWESOME Buoy 10 silver fishery last summer :grin:

JPSFISHY · 11-21-2001, 05:36 PM

Thanks to Jen for a simple reminder.
We have so many things to be thankful for. Gosh!
Being AMERICAN BY GOD. Having the right to be free, to have a vote. Being able to buy a fishing and hunting license, and even own a gun. Being able to own your own business, and communicate ideas and dreams without fear of being executed.
To be able to sit down and enjoy a wonderful meal with family and friends, is something many other people in the world can only dream about.
A special blessing to all for a safe and loving holiday.

Vinny · 11-21-2001, 06:19 PM

My son and daughter.

A great shared-parenting with their mom (Lisa), which is kind of like being married without the romance. :depressed:

The Ifish family and the opportunity to fish with and learn from many of you.

. . . and other stuff too. :smile:

STGRule · 11-21-2001, 09:24 PM

Thankful for the sky above...
The ground under my feet...
The wind, the rain....
The water in the rivers, in the oceans...
The animals on the land, the fish in the water, the birds in the sky...
The air that I breathe...
The family that I love and that loves me...
The food on my table...
The roof over my head...
All my friends (whether I know them or not)...
This great country....
And all that it stands for. I am thankful. :smile:

STGRule · 11-21-2001, 09:29 PM

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Floater · 11-21-2001, 09:57 PM

I'm thankfull:

For the water and the trees
and the sky above.
For the kiss and the touch
of a womens love.

For the laugh and the hugs
of the kids nearby.
For the without them,
I would surely cry.

For the life and home
that we've built together.
For the trials and the hopes
that we'll share forever.

For the times of wisdom
that I'm able to see,
the very things....
that God gave me.

brshooter · 11-21-2001, 11:18 PM

I am forever thankful for the three f's (Family, Friends, and Fishing)along with the many other blessings that God has bestowed upon me. I thought I would share an e-mail I received this morning.

A prelude to Thanksgiving....
If you have food in the refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof overhead and a place to sleep... you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank, in your wallet, and spare change in a dish someplace...you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If you woke up this morning with good health you are more fortunate than the million who will not survive this week.

If you have never experienced the danger of battle unfolding all around you, the loneliness of imprisonment, the agony of torture, or the pangs of starvation...you are ahead of 500 million people in the world.

If you can attend a church meeting without fear of persecution, harassment, arrest, torture, or death...you are more blessed than three billion people in the world.

If you can read this message, you just received a double blessing in that someone was thinking of you, and furthermore, you are more blessed than over two billion people in the world that cannot read at all.

Have a good day, count your blessings, and pass this along to remind others how much we really have to be thankful for. Be blessed,

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11-21-2001, 11:22 PM

Just for you Okie Drifter. :grin: I'm also thankful for meeting the Mission's of Fishin'!

zigzag · 11-22-2001, 09:20 AM

.........A wonderful wife (who's realistic about my addiction to the stream)
kids who love me unconditionally
a great job in a great country

a freezer ful of fish
and family and friends to share it all with!
Have a great Thanksgiving All!

brshooter · 11-22-2001, 06:07 PM

Aside from being thankful for family, fiends, fishing and many of the others things mentioned above, I think at this moment I am most thankful for Pepto Bismol. I need a big hit of the pink stuff now because I ate way too much. Hope everyone else has had a wonderful Turkey Day.

NAUTI-NOTIONS · 11-22-2001, 06:32 PM

AMEN ON THE TAGAMENT, Just had butter milk pie for the first time and yumm yumm. and yes i got the recipie.

Navigator · 11-22-2001, 07:26 PM

I am thankful for:

My parents in town to share Thanksgiving.

The love of my wife (who doesn't mind that I fish)

My three healthy children.

The teachers we have in our schools.

That I have a job I enjoy.

Good health.

The God that loves me.

Widmer Beer.

Waders that don't leak.

Ifish.net!

Happy Thanksgiving.

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Hookset · 11-22-2001, 08:54 PM

Thankful for this community and all the good people who make this board a success. The peace and harmony we share together is just outstanding.

Thankful for the many great people I've met here and hoepfully will meet in the coming year.

Thankful for fish and the oportunity to pursue them.

Thankful for living in this great country and our many men and women fighting to keep this nation free and strong.

Thankful for family, always there offering support.

Many thanks to all,

Gregg