We interrupt our usual blogging topics about finance, mortgages, and the housing industry, in order to bring some Thanksgiving Treats! Perhaps we should call them trivia instead of treats, but we hope you enjoy these little nuggets of Thanksgiving Day knowledge:

Treat Number One: Please, Pardon Me, Mr. President!
A few days before Thanksgiving Day, The President of the USA, conducts a ceremony known as “The National Thanksgiving Turkey Presentation.”
He “pardons” a turkey, and saves it from becoming Thanksgiving dinner.
“The light-hearted ritual was formalized in 1989 during the office of President George H. W. Bush. Successive presidents have granted presidential pardons to many a turkey, and these lucky birds now enjoy a life of comfort in a farm for the rest of their life.”

With all the talk of Executive Authority this year, this is probably one light-hearted decision that the entire legislative, judiciary and executive branches can celebrate!

Treat Number Two: About that dinner?

Modern historians have explained that the menu of that First Thanksgiving feast might have been extremely different from our modern concept of Thanksgiving dinner.Dinner With Palm State Mortgage
The Pilgrim historical chronicler, Edward Winslow, wrote in his journal that Governor Bradford sent four of his men “on a fowling mission in preparation for the event, and that the Wampanoag guests arrived bearing five deer.”
Other experts tell us that the Pilgrims did not have ovens, and sugar was in very short supply.
You know what that means; it is highly unlikely that the pilgrims had pies, cakes or pastries. Today we almost take these sweet treats for granted. Historians also tell us that they had the common spices associated with those recipes, and they were likely incorporated in some type of recipe. (Perhaps this is the origin or stuffing, or bread pudding?)

Treat Number Three: Make it official!

At Palm State Mortgage, we set great store by making things official, and, like most mortgage companies, we are fastidious in our paper work. It seems only appropriate that we should share some of the words that made Thanksgiving an official, legal, Holiday.

“It has seemed to me fit and proper that (God’s gifts) should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged with one heart and one voice by the whole American people. I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens…to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next as a day of thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the heavens.”  (From President Abraham Lincoln’s Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863…)
On behalf of Palm State Mortgage Company, we wish you happiness, health and prosperity on this coming Thanksgiving Holiday! We thank our friends, families, clients and blog readers for the joy and blessings they bring us. Enjoy!