Thanksgiving Dinner

What a great day we had yesterday!

Dinner was held over at my brother’s house, a buffet type affair. We all brought too much food, of course. A sign-up sheet had been circulated a head of time so we didn’t have very many duplicates and no holes (except for the mashed potatoes that accidentally got dropped on the way in).

Mother made what she calls “dead baby chickens” – otherwise known as Cornish Game Hens – instead of turkey this year. My brother Stewart brought a spiral-cut ham, too. Plenty of meat for the carnivores in the family. There were all kinds of salads, veggies, fruit, and pies to round it all off.

All told, there was about 30 people, ranging in age from about 1.5 to 86. My niece even called in from college over in Scotland, so we all gave her a very loud “Happy Thanksgiving!”

Lets see if I can name everybody: Mother, Stan, Dorothy, Stewart, Julie, Kelly, Danny, Tara, Laurel & her partner, Gareth & his girlfriend, Robin & his wife, Hank, Noel, Lauren, Katy (via phone), Henry, Martha, Myself, Heather, Reed, Chris & Sara, Tucker, Lisa, Mark, Madelyne, Mabel, Pam, Gleo, and Zieh & Dave – but they had to leave early.

My other niece, Lauren, has just returned from Seattle where she went to have surgery. She was still quite swollen and could only eat mashed potatoes, but at least she was there. She regaled everybody with stories of her horrible surgery and showed off the metal pins holding her jaw together.

I got to show pictures of my Mongolia trip. Believe it or not, there were still some people who hadn’t seen them!

The weather was the most surprising thing: it was about 50 degrees out there! Driving home, the rain was so heavy I could barely see the road in front of me. Hard to believe it was a record-breaking snow storm just a week ago.