Thanksgiving is around the corner ... what are you thankful for?

It has been my pleasure for most of my life to ramble up and down the state of California.

Following the lead of news organizations that fact-checked presidential candidate’s claims, here is a review of the facts about the revised Angwin eco-village and the claims made by Save Rural Angwin.

I just don't like Hillary Clinton, I admit. What I don't like about her is the same thing that I don't like about the Wall Street companies that are taking bail out money and giving multi-billion dollar Christmas bonuses to the same guys that threatened to take down the economy, or the average Americans who have 13 credit cards and expect to be bailed out with their own bankruptcies.

Last night I attended a dinner for a local organization known as The Family Trust. The Family Trust is an informal group of local businessmen started up 17 years ago to help out families in need in Napa. It was organized by Tom Lowenstein, Gary Garaventa, Steve Silva and Jim Asbury, in response to a need from the county Human Services department, to provide quick assistance to those who need it in situations where the time to go through government bureaucracy would not work or simply not be available.

The Napa Pipe project is about to hit the headlines again in Napa, and I have been hearing rumblings in the background at big changes that are possible. Meetings have been going on behind closed doors for several months now and one of the strong possibilities emerging is that the city of Napa may take over the project in exchange for taking on the housing requirements of the county.

Chuck McMinn has had a few good ideas over the years, and these days the Upvalley vintner is pushing an idea that would be great for the Napa Valley: He wants to build a bicycle trail from Napa to Calistoga, offering a recreational opportunity unlike any residents or visitors have today.

Dear editor, To Napa County Voters: Thank you for opposing Proposition 8. On Nov. 4, a majority of Napa County residents agreed with the California Supreme Court by saying “the right to marry is not properly viewed simply as a benefit or privilege that a government may establish or abolish as it sees fit, but rather that the right constitutes a basic civil or human right of all people.” If the election had been up to Napa County voters, there would be no question about the validity or recognition of our marriage license.

Dear editor, Thanks for Gary Silva’s articles on local poets (“Falling into poetry,” Nov. 10). I enjoy learning about the poets and other literary artists in the valley.

Would you ever eat Thanksgiving dinner at a restaurant? Or is this a holiday that must be celebrated at home?

Do you start your holiday shopping early?

The race is over, Barack Obama will be the next president, so now is the time for the next question.

Barack Obama is the your next President of the United States.