This is about how I felt after dinner yesterday.I hope you all had as good a time as you could yesterday, with family, friends and a fine festival of foodiness.
And thankfulness.
We did...we have so much to be thankful for and yesterday was no exception. Thanks go to Liz for cooking a fabulous feast all by herself. How many 23-year-olds can cook and serve an entire traditional Thanksgiving dinner? Six pies...including a mince pie just for me because I am the only one who likes it. I will freeze individual slices and have pie for a long time to come....plus peach for Alan and apple and pumpkin for everybody. And she got the dressing just right and made a lot of it, without frying the microwave like I did a couple of years ago. The turkey was just right too....and the potatoes and every other thing as well. She worked at it for three days.....I am so proud of her....and it all was so very good.
I am thankful that our Breezey 375 is home. It feels complete and right here now. And she is a great help in so many ways. We missed her a lot. It is going to be miserable to take her back on Sunday.... Can't wait for the next break.
And I am thankful that those &%#** Jersey heifers that jumped the fence didn't get any farther than the 30-acre lot before Alan and his friend happened upon them while out hunting and brought them back in.
I am also thankful that the friend, who lost his very expensive cell phone way up in back....way, way, way up in back under the power lines....was able to find it, after his dad gave him a firmly worded ultimatum on that topic. (Along the lines of get back there and look for it and don't come home without it. lol) They looked and looked (finding in the course of the search my gun sling, which Alan lost a couple of deer hunts ago) and finally stopped to talk. Alan asked the friend something about looking for the phone, the esteemed young friend looked down between his feet...right where he was standing...and there it was! I suspect he was even more thankful that I was.
We had a wonderful day yesterday...food, family, friends and peaceful contentment. (Not to mention Sunday chair naps for the old folks.) Today it is back to sweating the finances and trying to do right...but the interlude was fine and I liked it.
lol, on the bear picture, can't say i felt the same, we were guests and i didn't overdue the eating (which is unusual :)!)
ReplyDeleteeven was a little hungry that evening...that's the bad part NO LEFTOVERS!!!!!!!!!
but it's ok, all turned out well!
Loved the bear! Thankfully I didn't feel quite that stuffed, but it was a good feeling.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you had a good day, here all was going well until about 5 PM. One of these days I'm going to do a post about how to be a good neighbor. Not like ours were yesterday.
You are far more disciplined than I would be with a whole mince pie made just for me!
ReplyDeleteSounds like a GREAT Thanksgiving. Better find a man for Liz close by so you don't lose out on a single holiday meal.
ReplyDeleteHope you all have a great Thanksgiving Weekend! Much love sent your way from the whole gang here in Florida. :)
ReplyDeleteAnon, I didn't really go crazy or anything, but we have been eating mostly game and conventional food is so much....more...or something. lol Love leftovers!
ReplyDeleteSara, it was the cutest thing, thanks
I hear you on the neighbor thing. The ones we know don't bother us much, but the not so nice folks from the developments around us had been real pains in the you know where. Haven't been writing about them much but maybe I will soon
June, still more than half left. lol
Linda, good idea! I hate the thought of any of them moving where I can't see them really, really often.
Dani, thank you so much. We did have a wonderful time and I hope you and your family did as well. take care now.
I, too, did had a great Thanksgiving and am so thankful for the joy my loved ones bring me!.... and for the tremendous bounty of food we had,esp. the PIE! Your Liz is a real treasure.
ReplyDeleteWe had a lovely day too. I still think you should adopt me :)
ReplyDeleteI could do Thanksgiving twice in one day!
I didn't have to cook! YEAH! Good your your daughter. I remember my first time. What a job!
ReplyDeleteLinda
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Faithful, glad you had a good time. I don't have a single complaint about the day...it was as perfect as is legal...and I am real grateful for the good home cookin'
ReplyDeleteTeri, we should adopt you. Our critters would be so happy to have someone so kind and caring around...we we would have a heck of a lot of fun, I'll betcha
Linda, she did such a great job! I too can remember when it was hard to do...spent so much time on the phone with my mom. Now that I pretty much have it down I don't have to do it any more, but you sure won't hear me complaining.