### american holiday:

Thanksgiving
* are holidays
  - legal holidays
* can also be a way of life
  - make a turkey out of anybody trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle
* celebrates the harvest time of year.
* day for loved ones to renew family bonds.
* four-night minimum stay holiday.
* gives families a chance to experience what is truly important.
* holiday steeped deeply in tradition
  - that is centered on the meal
* is Pilgrims celebrating their harvest and friendships in a new land.
* is about American families, eating, spending time together
  - recognizing that love, and acknowledging who it is who's responsible
  - what people are thankful for
  - all about families coming together and eating a big feast
  - also the deepest expression of faith and the most beautiful fruit of faith
* is an American holiday
  - effective transition from the mundane, everyday world into the place of prayer
  - important part of worship
  - evidence of faith
  - food , parades and more
  - important in the Christian life
  - like being a deer in hunting season or being a person in a tornado
  - one holiday where family tradition is more important than commerciality
* is one of the five categories of prayer
  - high points of religious worship
  - species of prayer out of many
* is the biggest day of the year for food consumption
  - coals under the incense
  - expression of gratitude and the giving of thanks
  - great American holiday
  - heart of faith, it is the heart of wholeness, and it is the heart of our church
  - holiday of producers
  - language of faith
  - occasion when strangers meet
  - one day set aside each year for the purpose of counting our blessings
  - peak season as millions of apple and pumpkin pies move into home ovens
  - practice of choosing to think about our blessings
  - purest form of prayer
  - time to give coats and gloves to the needy
  - therefore the barometer of our spiritual condition
* is traditionally a harvest festival
  - time to share with family
  - usually a family day, celebrated with big dinners and joyous reunions
* often involves sacrifice.
* prayer to express one's gratitude in words.
* special American holiday.
* sure index of one's spiritual health
* time for families to create traditions and memories that last a lifetime
  - family and friends
  - family, for food and for added pounds on the waist
  - food, fun and family
  - tradition and sharing
  - many people are alone
* time of remembering
  - year that reminds most people to be thankful for what they have
* time to let go, to forgive and start looking forward
  - reflect and give thanks for all that's important to an individual
* way of saying yes to life.

Ammonium
* Some ammonium is incorporated into acid
  - amino acid
  - produced by decomposition
* based fertilizers acidify soil pH through the process of nitrification to nitrate
  - are especially important for many herbicides when velvetleaf is present
* cation, and therefore is held by the clay.
* is ammonia
  - an ion, while ammonia molecule
  - available to plants
  - chemical compounds
  - excreted in the urine, resulting in net acid loss
  - part of the nitrification process that helps restore estuarine systems
  - produced via catabolism of glutamine
  - readily converted to nitrate is all but the wettest and driest soils
  - released from the colloids by way of cation exchange
  - soluble in water, but is tightly absorbed on exchange sites in the soil
  - tetrahedral
* is the biggest problem but bacteria and organic matter are also a concern
  - positive charged ion of plant available nitrogen, which is stable in soils
  - preferred source since it takes less energy to use that form of nitrogen
  - used less by plants for uptake because in large concentrations it is extremely toxic
* plant nutrient.
* thus dominates summer nitrogen supplies.