Holiday to holiday
Good morning to all. I hope that Thanksgiving was joyous, safe and relaxing for everyone. I suppose that I'm just sort of non-compliant. I did not go out and shop on Black Friday (though I did stop by the grocery, but that really doesn't count), I did not visit a small business on Shop Small Saturday, and I did not order any merchandise online during Cyber Monday yesterday. Shame on me. I'm usually dependable with respect to propping up our economy. I wasn't a complete laggard, though, as my wife and I put up our holiday decorations Sunday and we began organizing our Christmas shopping, and actually did a little of it already. But ONLY a little. Did you know that President Franklin Roosevelt moved the observance of Thanksgiving during his time in the White House? If I have the story right, retailers pressured him to decree that Thanksgiving be celebrated early, as the year this was contemplated, Thanksgiving came late in the month of November. So in 1939-41