Happy Thanksgiving Y'all

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday of the year, not just because of the social acceptance of gorging oneself on prodigious quantities of foods that would otherwise qualify as "poor food choices" the rest of the year. But also because it's a good day of reflection about the blessings in our lives. And football.

That said, I wanted to wish everyone on the forum a happy Thanksgiving. Lemons has brought me a lot of joy the past couple of years. And a lot of heartbreak, but more joy. Even joy from heartbreak -- I'm sure the Germans have a pithy word for that experience -- and I know that's the same for an awful lot of you here.

As an aside (in a post that itself may be largely just an aside), one of my 9-year old's friends was over for dinner last night. Her dad raced with us in our very first race in Feb '09 but not since (I think he scared himself in the car), and Sophie asked me if we were going to race again next year in "the clown car." She was met with a chortle from pretty much everyone around the table, as well as a "of course, Sophie. Only it won't be a clown car next year." Everybody in my family knows that Lemons is here to stay. It's like a venereal disease; you can't get rid of it, sometimes it just flares up more than others. (Yes, I just compared Lemons to VD as a positive thing. You and I both know that Jay & crew would look upon that comparison favorably. We're all sick, but at least we're together.)

Anyway, for and to my extended Lemons family, I'm giving thanks for Lemons and for y'all today, among other things. Cheers and happy turkey day.