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Thanksgiving 2011 I would like to share the first 'official' Thanksgiving during a time when our nation was embroiled in a life saving struggle to remain a united country. It is an eloquent presentation of the grace with which this country was formed and encourages the nation to remember that and to look forward to a bountiful future. What an incredible talent President Lincoln had for putting just the right words together to reflect the thought. Enjoy and have a Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. Choice Community Association Management Proclamation Establishing Thanksgiving Day October 3, 1863 The year that is drawing towards 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 cannot 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 unequalled 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 theatre of military conflict; while that theatre 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 defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle, or the ship; the axe had enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the 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 battle-field; 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 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 at sea and those who are sojourning 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 interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed. Done at the city of Washington, this third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-eighth. A. Lincoln	View full year Calendar SEPTEMBER Storm damage clean up Apply pre-emergent to granite area. Pre-Emergent Weed Control: If you’re NOT going to overseed this fall, to control winter annual weeds apply once August 25–September 15 in Phoenix Scalp summer lawn, reduce water OCTOBER Plant Wildflower seeds Lawn: When nighttime temperatures are below 65º or it’s less than 78º–83º daytime, overseed with rye for winter color and protect dormant Bermuda. NOVEMBER ree & Shrub planting Transplant Landscape plants Tree trimming Radical plant cut back DECEMBER Fertilize Winter lawn. Apply 1/4 lb. -Nitrogen- per 1000 sq. ft.. Phosphorous is beneficial at this time

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