In celebration of our national day of thanks, I wanted to post something fun today…I’ll be back to my “regularly scheduled postings” tomorrow. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

1. The First Thanksgiving lasted for three days
2. The drink that the Puritans brought with them in the Mayflower was beer
3. President Abraham Lincoln established the original date for our National Thanksgiving Day celebration in 1863
4. Americans feast on 535 million pounds of turkey on Thanksgiving
5. Turkeys can drown if they look up when it is raining
6. Fresh cranberries are ideal for cranberry sauce. Cranberries of the highest quality will always bounce
7. The cranberry got its name because the pale pink blossoms on the plant resembled a crane’s head and neck. The name craneberry stuck, eventually becoming cranberry
8. A spooked turkey can burst into flight approaching speeds between 50-55 mph in a matter of seconds
9. A turkey’s field of vision is 270 degrees
10. Benjamin Franklin wanted the turkey to be the national bird of the United States. It was Thomas Jefferson who opposed him and this is why it is believed that Franklin named the male turkey ‘tom’ to spite Jefferson