We’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving tonight on board the Queen Mary 2, out here in the wild North Sea, feeling very grateful! It’s been really hard to get anything up here on the blog, but for some reason, Twitter seems to be okay! I’m sure you’re too busy today to care . . . but I wanted to send Thanksgiving blessings to one and all. SO excited, we arrive in New York …
On Saturday . . . then it’s home sweet home. Wishing you all a wonderful Turkey Day! Thank you for being you. 💖
XOXOXO
Happy Thanksgiving Susan!
Same to you and yours Farm Girl! xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! No matter where we are on this day ( even rolling on the ocean) we have so much to be thankful for. Safe home to you!
We do! It’s gorgeous here today, smooth seas, and the sun breaking through the clouds . . . Have a wonderful day!
Happy Thanksgiving to the both of you! xo Tracy
Happy Thanksgiving and WELCOME Home. Remember, all roads lead home for the holidays.
Treese/Colorado Cowgirl.
There’s no place like home. I love the picture of Jack in the window waiting. Happy Thanksgiving ! xo
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe
We all have so much to be thankful for and my heart is full today with the love of friends, near and far, as it surrounds this wonderful world in which we live with a great big {{{HUG}}}
Looking forward to hearing all about a shipboard Thanksgiving Dinner!
~~~Waving from Across the Pond~~~Deb in Wales xoxo
Wishing you every happiness and a wonderful Thanksgiving on board!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe!!
Enjoy the rest of your journey!!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe!
I want to let you know how much I appreciate your work. My sister and I discovered it when she moved to Albany for her first real job. Her boss was a great mentor. She gave my sister Vineyard Seasons for a present. I had never seen anything like it. I loved art class in high school and especially water colors. Looking at your work was truly like seeing a kindred spirit.
Soon after that your Summer Book came out. I bought a copy and every summer there after I have ushered in the season by reading through the whole book. Things got even better when the Autumn Book came out and I could have the same tradition in fall.
Your work also inspired me to make a family recipe/photo book celebrating all of my granmother’s recipes. She was a wonderful cook and it was a great present for her and for the rest of us to celebrate her life.
I love your blog. Thank you for writing it. You are appreciated.
You’re a sweetheart to tell me Michelle. Please say hello to your sister for me too! Happy Holidays! xoxo
Wishing you and Joe a very Happy Thanksgiving! I was happy to hear you’re having a gorgeous day with smooth seas, wonderful news! ♥
We are so excited you are heading home. Happy Thanksgiving! Christmas ahead so lets get festive.
Happy Thanksgiving to you two!! I’m sure you both have shared a wonderful trip but looking forward to “Home again, home again, jig-a-dee, jig-a-dee, dee!!!
xoxox, Carolyn
Happy Thanksgiving dear Susan and Joe♡ The sun hasn’t quite reached the West Coast yet, but its time for me to start my own Thanksgiving preparations. How fun to start the day with you on the ocean blue. Wishing you a happy day of smooth sailing and fun QE2 style Thanksgiving celebrations. xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving to you also! God has blessed us greatly, so much to be thankful for. I bet you can’t wait to see Jack kitty?
Happy Thanksgiving so enjoy your blogs looks like you had a wonderful trip in England and I have enjoyed all your when I get them I can’t put them down I have to read it straight through
A very Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! Jack will have his little nose pressed against the window waiting for you to come home, us too!! Thanksgiving on the ship will be something to remember and write about, I am sure of that. I know I want to hear all about it.
Thankful for you, Mary Jane
That little nose!!!!!!! Eeeeek!
Just slid the bird into the oven. Now for a little down time before it gets really busy. Happy Thanksgiving to all ye upon the sea today! As I remember, that sweet ocean air makes everything smell better—even turkey fixins!
Happy Thanksgiving My Dear….Stay safe and warm. Welcome Home! I’m sure your Jack is waiting.
How fun! Thanksgiving dinner on the high seas! Have a happy and blessed one Susan and welcome home😘❤️ Jack is waiting for you 😊
The quote you shared is lovely…thank you for the heartfelt reminder. We are all thankful to you for sharing your adventures with us…safe travels home and enjoy every minute!
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🍂🍂Happy🍂🍂
🦃Thanksgiving🦃
🍂🍂to you too!🍂🍂
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Sweet … and lovely comments from everyone … can’t answer everyone because soon they will kick me off the Internet (still on the ship), but I’m reading every one of them and basking in the glow of Thanksgiving Love. xoxoxo THANK YOU!!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! So glad that you’ve made it safely thus far and praying that the rest of your voyage goes well. So excited to learn more about your travels (I mean the parts that you haven’t been able to share yet!) and looking forward to hearing what you will be doing this Christmas season.
I loved the prayer by George Herbert that started this post. We really do have so much to be grateful for and among the many blessings I can count, I’m thankful for you and your blog. Bless you.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe! We are going to travel through wind and rain to have Thanksgiving at my sister’s home. Holidays are so lovely! So happy to hear the seas are smooth for you!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan! Your blog and merchandise are blessings to me. Hope you have a happy Thanksgiving aboard the Queen Mary 2 full of good food, loving family and many blessings to be thankful for.
God bless, Kathy in Illinois
Happy, happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe! It’s a beautiful day here in SC, too. We can’t ask for anything else; we are so blessed.
Love,
Kathy
🦃Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe🦃 From northern Michigan…we’re counting our blessings today…
Happy Thanksgiving, from Salt Lake City. We have snow, finally!! Enjoy the last few hours of your amazing trip.
I am thankful dear Sue, to have you. I wish you and Joe the happiest of days, & lots of good things to eat tonight on the ship. We do have so much to be thankful for. Safe rest of the journey home, so looking forward to more pictures of your magical trip to England and Scotland. P.S. I wish I could see Jack’s face when you walk in the door! love and blessings to you xoxo
Susan, wishing you and Joe a blessed Thanksgiving. Peace be unto you and a safe journey home. You MUST post pics of the Thanksgiving spread on board! I can only imagine.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe. Thanks especially for letting us all travel along with you….it has been a fab trip!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Susan, it’s me again. I forgot to mention that I can be available if you need help unpacking the many treasures you found on this trip. I know there will be many, along with the “mind” treasures. Just saying…
You are a dear!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe also, dear Susan. May you arrive safely and well !! Have a blessed day 🙂
Mother Seraphima! Check your calendar! Joe and I want to come visit you and the Sisters at the Convent and bring our friends Gayle and Bruce Kissell… before Christmas . . . our treat to ourselves. I’ll write when I get home, but save us a date! xoxo
A Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving to you too!! Even though this holiday will be very different from your usual celebrations, may it be a very special one; one you’ll remember always!! XOXO!!
Never forget!
What a treat to have sunshine breaking through the clouds and a much calmer sea. What an experience to feast on food and gratitude at sea. Ha!
Bless you and Joe for all the joy you bring to all of us girlfriend followers.
Happy Thanksgiving!!! xo
Happy Thanksgiving Susan! Bet you can’t wait to get home to your cozy house, kitty, warming fireplace, and the good smells of cooking and baking… You will be there before you know it…
Best wishes,
Gina
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe!
Thank you Dear Susan, for the Thanksgiving Wishes. As usual this morning, your twitter is the first thing I read. I have a big smile on my face when I click on the smiley icon. No matter the subject on Twitter or Blog, I appreciate your deeply thoughtful insights and the effort it takes to share them with us. Susan for a Pulitzer, maybe even a Nobel. What you have done the last few weeks is deserving of those honors. Urging us to consider ideas, big ideas, and the consequences of Not Paying Attention! Much love to you, Joe and all the wonderful people on your blog. And of course Jack!
Debbie, now in Florida
LOL, adorable Debbie, thank you! xoxoxo
Happy Thanksgiving and cheers to you, Susan, and Joe, and to all our wonderful girlfriends! Blessings to one and all.
Blessings to you and Joe. May we all focus on the good in our lives. Happy homecoming!!!
Happy Thanksgiving. Safe travels and joy.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe too! I am most thankful to have enjoyed your writings and books over the years, you are a joy to know.
Happy Thanksgiving Susan and Joe!! So glad I took a break from all the cooking and popped on here! Looking forward to your pictures and stories after you get home ( but please, rest and spend time with your kitty first😊)
One delightful thing about being on board the ship, the rocking lulls you into sleep, the sea air is wonderful, all the way home we are moving the clocks backward for an extra hour of sleep, so you do arrive home very rested!
God bless you, Susan. You have a well-intended heart. May you continue to be blessed with joy, health, love, creativity, safety, and peace.
I’m grateful to have you in my life all these years, Susan! You’ve been a good friend even though you only know me this way. Enjoy your last moments of this fabulous trip.💕
Happy Thanksgiving to you – have a piece of pie for me! Hard to find it in Munich. Instead I’ll have some chocolate!
God bless your journey, these remaining days. You remain in my prayers.
Thank you Susan!
A very happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe. I have followed your English journey and loved all the adventures you shared. I have been buying your books pretty much since you started writing them. You have brought so much joy into my life I want to let you know how thankful I am for you. Best wishes for a swift, comfortable journey home.
P.S. I was so pleased to meet you both at Austin, Texas’s Book People. Joe was the consummate host while we were waiting in line to meet you, Susan. I was so glad I drove up from San Antonio to meet you.
Was a lovely event, with wonderful people… I’ll give Joe your sweet compliment! Thank you Kathleen!
Have a blessed day !
Happy Thanksgiving!
Be happy and well.
Have a joyful Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving Susan & Joe. We do have much to be thankful for and your “happy place” blog is one of them. Have a safe journey home and am looking forward to more stories and pictures of your trip.
Happy travels home to your wonderful home. Jack is waiting for you. Love you so much
Have safe travels home, Susan and thank you for you!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan! Safe travels!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe
We have spent Thanksgiving on a cruise ship in the past. The food was amazing and the turkey melted in your mouth! Even though it was a wonderful experience, there is nothing quite like spending Thanksgiving at home.
I am so thankful for this blog. I have admired and respected you for a long time but over the last couple of weeks, the admiration and respect have grown tenfold. You have handled yourself with dignity and class. Thank you for being You!!
So right Sharon, there’s no place like home! And thank you for your kind words . . . sending love xoxoxox
I’m so glad you are home, Sue! Yay! All’s well when you and Joe are tucked back in at your Vineyard home! Jack! I bet he’s happy! Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe from our family in Wells, Maine.
And welcome back home to New England after your lovely Scottish adventures.
Gobble gobble!
Nancye T.
We are so blessed to have warm houses, huge amounts of food and people we love to celebrate with. So much to be grateful for and now this lovely missive from our caring friend, you Susan.
Happy Thanksgiving and for some fun, watch the President pardon the turkey in the Rose Garden.
Grateful for you Susan Branch . . . ♥
Love my SB Christmas cards that arrived yesterday!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe!!
God bless you and Joe and your whole family! We pray for your safe trip home and give thanks for you! I appreciate you sharing your fabulous trip with us again. Can’t wait to hear more about your adventures. Susan Christmas
Thanks for sharing your trip with me, I just loved it and imagined I was there the whole time!
Happiest of all Thanksgivings ever!
Have a blessed Thanksgiving Sue and Joe! Safe travels!
Have a very nice rest of your trip! We are having a low key day…..my cancer treatments have left me very lethargic, but am enjoying to the b3st of my abilities. Your blogs really pop up my days, even though I rarely respond these days. Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe.
I’m glad you just did, so I can send you my prayers, that this too shall pass, and very quickly you will be your old self again! Happy Holidays Mary Pat! xoxo
Thank you so much! Prayers have sustained me for the past 2 1/2 years!
They do help so much don’t they? More more more, showered down upon YOU! xoxo
Hang in there, Mary Pat! we went through chemo with my husband who is cancer free 5+ years. We try to encourage everyone we can to keep going, it will be well again. Prayers and good thoughts coming your way.
Happy Thanksgiving to you Susan and to Joe!
Looking forwards to see you safe home.
Greetings,Trijntje Huppel
Thank you Trijntje! Won’t be long now! xoxo
Always blessed, ever thankful! Saw that on FB the other day and I’m going to adopt it as my motto( because it’s true!) You & Joe have a wonderful (how romantic) Thanksgiving on board the ship!
Most romantic way to travel, it’s just amazing what a six-day interlude, between two worlds, in the coziest of cocoon like places, is. Like another world. xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving Susan, and Joe too! How exciting to have Thanksgiving on the ship! Will there be all the trimmings?? What’s your favorite part of the meal? Mine is the stuffing/dressing.
Indeed, we all have so much to be thankful for!
Safe voyage home! ((HUGS))
I see gravy as the tie that binds! 😀 Gravy on stuffing, gravy on turkey, gravy on potatoes . . . gravy the next day, gravy forever! Must go home and make gravy!
So happy to know that you are almost home. I have always loved the feeling of arriving home after a journey and holding my cats. Your kitties await you!xo
Thrilled to the tips of my toes! xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving from Germany!😍
So lucky to have Girlfriends from other countries chiming in! xoxo Happy Holidays Irina!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan & Joe! Sending you all the blessings of this special day.
Safe journey and a pre-welcome homecoming!!!
Thanks for everything you share with your faithful fans Susan.
Love,
Kelly
Love to you Kelly!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan! Hope that you have safe arrival home and we will allow a bit of rest … But then we’ll be anxious to get caught up. Not to mention getting in the Christmas spirit! Tonight my traditional viewing of Miracle on 34th Street will fill me with magic. It starts at the Macy’s parade … ❤️
~Happy Thanksgiving Susan & Joe!!~
Waving to you over the many many miles from the little country of Belgium!
Although Thanksgiving isn’t celebrated overhere in Belgium, it does no harm at all to give an “extra Thanks” and make it a special “Count-your-Blessings- Day”! Right?! 🙂 ❤
With blessings to you,
Aurélie x
No, Extra Thanks are always good, thank you Aurelie! xoxo
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving and smooth sailing. Waiting patiently for the pictures and stories of your great adventure.
I had no idea you were back to visit the UK again, as I’ve been offline for ages. This weekend, I’llbe catchng up withall your adventures.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you, dear Susan 💕 Sending love and Happy Thanksgiving wishes to you and Joe. Thank you for taking me along with you on this marvelous trip on the Queen Mary 2 to England and Scotland. I’m so grateful for being included as one of your girlfriends🙏 Enjoy your last few days at sea. Soon you’ll be home with darling Jack❤️🍂🍁😘
Your memories will last you a lifetime. Thanks for sharing the wonderful trip with all of us. Bet you and Joe are getting anxious to be back on your beloved island and seeing Jack. He will no doubt be missing some fur from all the lovings. We have many blessing to count. . . your friendship thru the blog is important to so many of us.
Happy Thanksgiving to you too, Susan! Hard to believe that your journey to and from England is almost over. Didn’t it just begin?
Happy Turkey Day, Susan!
If you can, please post a photo of your dinner on board. Does the Queen Mary do anything different/special for the holiday meal? Glad to hear you are on your way home…there is no place like it!
Holiday Hugs,
Jerri
I have lots of pictures to share … they didn’t do anything different, it was all very traditional, delicious but no where near as good as what my Grandma made 💖, BUT they had Big Band musica for dancing afterwards, so that made up for it….
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe!
Happy Thanksgiving Susan (and Joe)
Here in Sweden, we have celebrated a quiet day with good food and gratitude for all the wonders of life.
I would like to thank you for bringing joy to my life here in Stockholm, and to wish you a memorable arrival in the US.
You are a wonder!
Thank you Delores, you are so sweet. Happy Holidays to you and yours!
Happy Thanksgiving! So appreciate you and all that you do, thanks for reaching out! Looking forward to hearing more about your trip when you return. Safe Travels.
Thank you Sue!
Hubby snd I are having an evening Thanksgiving dinner, too, with family at our oldest son’s home. Very grateful for this peaceful day!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING 🤗🦃🍽🍁 and may the rest of your trip be joyful ❣️
I have never left a comment before but always sent one in my heart. Our family is celebrating in DC while we investigate colleges with our granddaughter. We feel as if we are rolling on the ship of state here in our beautiful capitol; everyone we talked with is nauseated with fear and anger.
I appreciated your piece about the outcome of the election. It helped many of us feel connected as you clearly articulated what we feel.
We get home on Saturday also, from DC to Minnesota, a blue state. Then I will pull out your Christmas book to jump start the joy. About 27 years ago I was given “The Heart of the Home” to cheer me up during a medical issue and I have given and owned all of your books since then.
This is by way of saying that I am thankful for you, your gift of talent and especially your spirit.
Traveling mercies to all of us. Karen Larsen
You are very sweet Karen. I’m thrilled to see Trump is busy breaking his campaign promises, and I can’t tell you how happy that makes me! Perhaps it was all usury just to get elected. After all, he’s always been a Democrat, so it just might not be what we think. Prayers. Deep breaths, and joy to the world. xoxo
Happy Thanksgiving Susan! Many blessings to you and Joe!
Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
I am sure you have had a wonderful trip, but I bet home sounds wonderful right about now. Hope your seas are calm and your dinner delish! Happy Thanksgiving to you and hubby?
Back on the diet!
Hello….and Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe!! Thanks for thinking of us on this special day….enjoy!! Loretta/Calif.
That is a serene view! It is pretty here in MO too. Crisp and cool, but delightfully 🌞 sunny!! We have just finished a delicious dinner…I made your cranberry sauce recipe last evening and it is divine.
Blessings of Thanksgiving to you all too!!
Happy Thanksgiving, Susan and Joe. I am thankful that you gather us in your blog and gives us words of love and peace and truth to make the world kinder and gentler after brutal year. We will survive and we must, so keep speaking from your heart because it’s people like you who will guide us to unity and peace. I love that you and your blog and website are a refuge to seek out, share and learn how to remain friends and sisters who try to make our own homes refuges for family and friends. May your turkey be juicy, your plate be full and your life be further blessed with wisdom and love. 😊💕🇺🇸
It has been brutal, I agree, deep breaths all around, gather in, we all have so much to be thankful for. I love your blessing! xoxoxo
Happy thanksgiving SUsan have a beautiful trip!
We girlfriends wish you a safe voyage!
Best
Elyse
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoy the rest of your voyage! Happy landings and Welcome Home!
Thanksgiving blessings abound for all of us. I am glad you get a celebration. Home will be wonderful and I look forward to your “trip report.”
HAPPY THANKSGIVING SUSAN ! Had to wish you the best today b/c you have taught me to be so much more grateful for everything I’m my life. Big bear hugs to you and everyone who sustains you. Love, Nina
Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels.
Can you smell the aroma of my turkey roasting??? Fantastic, making everyone wishing they could dig right in. We wish a very Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe. I am grateful for how much you have given us: joy, happiness, great recipes, good ideas, and words spoken from your heart. I admire your courage, your candor and your diplomatic nature. You are kind, generous and faithful to your readers, even if they are not always faithful to you. Thank you, Susan, and thank you Joe, as I know you enable Susan to do as much as she does. She is the cheery duckie and you are the webbed feet below the water’s surface, paddling like mad to make it easier for Susan to do what she does so beautifully. And thank you, Susan, for using plenty of quotes from our dear Gladys! You have introduced her to countless new readers who have become FOGT members and we are very appreciative. Have a smooth sailing home!
You have it just right, Joe is the rock. And using Gladys’s words so others can experience her wisdom is my total pleasure as you know Susan, so very wonderful to hear from you!
Happy Thanksgiving and God speed!
Happy Thanksgiving and welcome home to a special friend. Smiles
xoxo Nancy!
Wishing you many Thanksgiving blessings!
May you be happy, May you be safe, May you be healthy, May you be at peace.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Joe. Safe travels and welcome home! Jack will be very happy to see you! We got a new kitten, a brown tabby, and named her Annie. She’s only 9 weeks old so we’re enjoying the “kitten crazies!”
JoAnne from chilly northwest NJ
Lucky!