Abraham Lincolns Thanksgiving
If you are reading this you woke up this morning. Some folks didn't so be sure to give thanks. Nothing happened in the Villages in the last couple of days. 
There is a new lease listing in Aviano for the Solaria at 3824 E. morning Dove Trail. Asking is $2750 per month unfurnished. Last lease there started 10.22.08 and was closed for $2850 a month. 
The bank owned Mirasol at 3835 E. Daley Lane is now pending. This home is fairly spartan with the upgrades. I do love the tile in the entry/living/dining room and kitchen. The location is very good; close to schools and community center. The master bedroom has a walk out patio that overlooks the pocket park at 38th Way and Herrera. 8 days to get a contract - priced at $435,900.
After 168 days on market going from $990K to $665K, the short sale Mirador at 3839 E. Expedition Way just closed. Sale price was $665K which is $130 a sq ft. Some nice upgrades in this home with a large, 12,000 sq ft lot backing to a green belt and next to a cul de sac.
Thanksgiving was not formally made a federal holiday until 1941. However, it has been celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November annually since President Abraham Lincoln delivered the address below in 1863. Happy Thanksgiving!
The year that is drawing toward its close has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added which are of so extraordinary a nature that they can not fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever-watchful providence of Almighty God.
In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign states to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations,
order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed
everywhere, except in the theater of military conflict, while that theater has been greatly contracted
by the advancing armies and navies of the Union.
Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national
defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our
settlements, and the mines, as well as the iron and coal as of our precious metals, have yielded even
more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased notwithstanding the waste that
has been made in the camp, the siege, and the battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the
consciousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with
large increase of freedom.
No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are
the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath
nevertheless remembered mercy.
It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently, and gratefully acknowledged, as with one heart and one voice, by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow-citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are in foreign lands, 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. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners, or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the imposition of the Almighty hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it, as soon as may be consistent with the divine purpose, to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquility, and union.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
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