Thanksgiving

Tomorrow is American Thanksgiving.  In our family, it is a time for family, falling between my birthday and my daughter’s and her daughter was born on Thanksgiving Day two years ago.  When our children were young and still at home and we still lived on Virginia’s east coast, my Dad and I took turns hosting Thanksgiving dinner, including as many family members as we could.

This year, my Dad and stepmom are in the midst of a kitchen rebuilt due to a dishwasher leak and the discovery of old asbestos floor tiles, so they will be having dinner at my stepsister’s house.  Our daughter and her family spent last Thanksgiving here from Florida, we recently spent two weeks with our youngest son and his family.  Our eldest son and his family are currently on a bus travelling here from Northern Virginia to spend tomorrow with us.

Yesterday, it rained and rained and rained after an ice storm the night before and today it is snowing.  We are hopeful that this weather doesn’t impact their travels.  The preparation for a turkey dinner with all the fixings was begun and the house was cleaned up to help reduce son’s allergy to the dogs.

The pumpkin pies made with the last pumpkin, cooked and frozen last winter.  The fixings are all in the house and we are awaiting their arrival.

The chickens were let out this morning, poked heads out of the coop and drew back in.  We are experiencing very high winds and the morning temperature of 31f was the day’s high, it has been blowing and plummeting all day.  Normally, I don’t have food or water in their coop to keep the rodents from visiting, but today I took pity and though the pop door is open and they can go outside, they are holed up with food and water indoors.

We wish you a happy Thanksgiving from our farm to your home.