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Hello Friends!
How are we on this crisp November afternoon? Doing well, I hope!
As you are reading this, Thanksgiving has passed, but as I sit here today, it is not quite turkey and gratitude time just yet. See, we are having a small dinner on the actual day with my immediate family, and the extended family is all getting together on Saturday to accommodate most work schedules. It’s kinda nice because it gives us a chance to create our own leftovers with our favorite bits and also have all the fun of hanging out with all the family!
I thought about saving this post until after those were done so I could tell you all about it, but to be honest, we have a lot planned over the next couple days and I am a little concerned about forgetting this post until way late, or all together! I have had a couple close calls with things like that lately because the holidays and everything have discombobulated the schedule a little. So, as of right now I can just tell you about the plans for the holiday!
It’s a bit of a new thing for me this year, but I am not hosting the big family dinner at all! It’s not at my house, I am not cooking much at all (I have pie duty) and I’m weirdly relaxed for being this close to a holiday. I am glad I get to experience it all from this side for the first time in a while.
For our small, immediate family dinner we are making a turkey roll thing that I don’t fully understand, but my parents are super excited about, along with most of the sides, we are being choosy and only making the ones we look forward to each year. We bought a couple pies for our event and then, if I can get off work in time, and get the kitchen to myself long enough, I thought I would surprise my mom with a homemade pumpkin pie because that was one she couldn’t find at the store. We decided a little late to do our own mini thanksgiving so some things were a little hard to come by.
For the bigger family meal, I am bringing mostly pre-made pies, because my family’s favorites are ones I don’t know how to make. It’s nice, even less cooking for me, and it means I still get to sleep in on Saturday morning instead of running around preheating ovens and panicking about cleaning the house. I could really get used to this.
In non-holiday news, we have had one of the wettest Novembers I have seen since living here. It’s been insane, raining near constantly, and my hay bales are molding because my storage isn’t ideal. It makes me nervous because wet bales are ticking time bombs. I guess this is my push to build something more suitable and less temporary for my hay cover. We’ve had the craziest winds too, just constant high winds, to the point where we hardly even react to them anymore. I think it’s been a side effect of that bomb cyclone that was on the coast, I think we probably got the far flung bits that made it over the mountains.
I couldn’t believe the damage that thing did for being as unassuming as it seemed. I have so many friends over there that lost roofs and power and had all sorts of issues. I know of at least a few people that, as of the writing of this, still don’t have power back. I remember as a child we had a really nasty windstorm when I lived on the coast, and it took the roof off the house and we didn’t have power for a couple days. I remember my dad was working the night shift and his supervisor called him and sent him home because it wasn’t safe to be out patrolling with the debris flying. That was a crazy night.
We also got our first snow of the season, which came super early in the month, and honestly makes me a little worried about how much snow we might get the rest of this winter. It didn’t stick around for long, but it snowed a good portion of the day and everything was pretty white for a bit.
Otherwise, not much has been going on for us, my parents got their wedding video remastered onto dvd so we had a little viewing party, Mom tried her hand at driving the lawnmower for the first time since her strokes, and work has been slowly killing me as we careen toward the end of quarter four. Luckily, I like my job, so it’s worth it.
What are you guys up to? Did you celebrate Thanksgiving? What’s your favorite Thanksgiving food and why is it the green bean casserole? What did you do in November that wasn’t turkey related?
Can’t wait to talk with you all again soon!
Until we chat again, my friends!
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