I am thankful for...
 

- Living in the USA.
- My wife of 28 years.
- My family at home, healthy, and safe.
- Especially for my son, an Army MP, home from Iraq, active duty completed.
- All three kids in college.
- This forum and the friendliest, most knowledgable and helpful people anywhere on classic and vintage bicycles.
- The political and financial freedom to engage in this hobby.

Thank you all for making the art of collecting, restoring, maintaining, and riding classic & vintage bicycles more simple, more interesting, more understandable, more fun than it would be otherwise.

Happy Thanksgiving to all of you!

waffles.

My home, my son, my partner, my step-daughters, my job and my very, very sweet bikes. A lot to be thankful for this year! And my adorable kitty, who is curled up next to me as I write this, in our nightly ritual: I sit down, turn on the electric lap blankie, get out the computer to read some bike forums, and she snuggles up to roll around, purr, rub my hand with her nose and just be cute. Something warm, loving and cute is all you need, you know? :)

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I'm thankful for men like your son. Please tell him "thanks for going", and "welcome home", from me and my family.

My amazing mother
my loving girlfriend
my family
a roof over my head
a job that keeps me in this industry and pays my bills
a meal in my stomach every day

...there are no beavers in my yard.

Grace.
My wife, with her incredible reservoir of caring and compassion.
My mom who loves me no matter what.
My sister and brother-in-law and niece and nephew.
My other family, who I don't see often, but think of every day.
My dog, who daily provides me with an example of a loving, joyful, mindful, and genuine way to live.
My body that continually functions above expectations and provides me with amazing advantages and opportunities.
My friends who show me wonderful love and affection.
The earth for being full of wonders and beauty and challenges that fill me with positive feelings and make me a better person.
That I live in a society whose beliefs and traditions give me a large--an unprecedented--measure of personal freedom, security, and physical well-being, and the hope for a possible future free of oppression, tyranny, exploitation, war, suffering, and fear.

... that someone invented a transportation device that is as effective and FUN as the bicycle.

My amazing wife, 4 and 1/2 year old daughter and my family and friends, seeing as how my wife and I just experienced a miscarraige this monday, we have been extra thankful of each other this week.

R.I.P. my baby girl

Mike -I'll light a candle for your baby girl in church today

Blessed and Happy Thanksgiving Day to all!

My beautiful wife of 18 years
My two gorgeous daughters; one who just celebrated 3 years of remission from Leukemia
My extended family
Friends near and far
Living in the greatest country in human history
The brave men and women who allow me to enjoy everything listed above!

The fabric of life.....we all have our stories. Bicycles are amazing machines - beautiful, fun, healthy, and a great diversion from our less happy chapters.

My wife/best friend who puts up with me
My six wonderful children, and two and a half grandboys
My steady imployment-comfotable home-food on the table
This wonderful country we live in
and Bike Forums, esp. C&V:)

David, I am too and glad to hear about your son. but I am thankful we have Men and Woman like him he keep us all safe.

Mike I am sorry to hear that but happy your Wife is OK

I am thankful as all of you are that I do live in such a great country. I am glad my family and friends have made it through another trouble filled year.

I am real thankful that I got rehired, although with a small benifits cut, and I don't have to go back to the "Big Rigs" for atleast a few more months.

I am also thankful for all my BF and C&V friends who amuse :roflmao:, educate :50: and infuriate :bang: me everyday :thumb:

i thank for my computer lol

or woodchucks ;)

double rainbows

Fresh air to breath, clean water to drink, healthy food to eat, a natural world to explore, and people share it with. I'm also thankful for a world of diverse ideas, religions and cultures, populated by decent people who care for and respect others, regardless of ideological persuasion.

Mike, my wife and I also lost a child...to Trisomy 18 at 32 weeks. I really know what you're going through. Believe me when I say many more people than you'll ever know understand and share your grief. My prayers to you and yours this holiday weekend.

-Keith

Thanks K, it was tough, especially since we had to deliver, she was at 18 weeks, no reason, just a random chromosomal issue. But we are doing well all things considered, God has a plan and we are focusing on that.

Keith, Mike, I too say prayers for your babies. I can't think of a greater loss than one's child.

My wife is a breast cancer survivor, and so mortality is never far from our minds.

BBM, I have told my son your message. He nodded, silently. He is teaching himself bass guitar at the moment. He has acted as an extra in a couple of movies and a TV show shot in the Detroit area so far since coming home, and has a part in another film shooting in Grand Rapids on Sunday. He takes parts that allow him to work around his college class schedule. Not bad for a war vet at age 22.

I'm sorry for your loss. I'm not saying I can completely relate to your experience, but having a 16 month old son and a 4 month old daughter myself I actually almost teared up reading your post when I thought about having to deal with that. I suppose it must make you remember not to take anyone for granted that you have in your life now.

- My daughters.
- My wife.
-my father.
-my life.
-my cats.
-my few (very few) but decent friends.
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I guess if anything it could have been worse, we could have lost someone we have spent more than 18 weeks with. She will be sorely missed, but the impact she made in those short, 18 weeks, can never be forgotten.

‎"An Angel in the book of life wrote down my baby's birth. And whispered as she closed the book "too beautiful for earth."

I am thankful for... NO FUTURE