Thursday, November 26....

Give thanks to the Lord for he is good...Psalm 107:1



Finally, my laptop is back.  That wasn't too bad, really---nine days to California and back and a holiday in between... pretty good service.

Thanksgiving Day dawned rather dreary...

    though the sun did come out  

 

later on for a bit...

 At 8:40 a.m. the trussed turk entered the oven...

 

 

 

...stuffed with parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme, snipped fresh from under the snow... along with some lemon, onion, and celery.

 

 

Nana made the stuffing and cranberry relish (Helen's recipe) and peeled the potatoes; Susan mashed them.  There was corn and applesauce too.  

 

Of course Thanksgiving wouldn't be right without the sweet potatoes...



 

Upside down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 



 

...topped off with Susan's delectable pecan pie...

 

 

 



 As always, there was more than we needed---lots to send home with the bachelors.

We are so blessed.

   Every leaf speaks bliss to me, falling
   from the autumn tree.         ----Emily Bronte
                                   





Saturday, October 8.....

A good day for chicken noodle soup...before leaving the house I put on some backs and feet as well as a chicken to cook while I'm raking leaves...

Mayor Shade's tree has already lost all its leaves----

...the wind has blown them all into my yard..............

                                                    

 See.   There are still leaves hanging on my trees..............

 



 

 I wanted Ani to picture a pile of leaves
and imagine jumping in them as you did
so long ago but it's had to capture the image
in a photo...




...especially when there's nobody around and
you have to do a selfie.......
 

 

 

             Clean yard and bags of leaves for the trash man                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 
Two lonely beets left in the garden, next to the luscious......

...parsley

Waddya think of my brand new lawn mower...cutting the grass takes on new meaning......

Tonight there will be the scent of fresh wind on my pillow.....

Sunday, October 19...Lunch with Bum and Li'l Cayke...

Reminisces..... bits and pieces........

Castor?????????

Saturday, October 11, 2014........Marvin D. Byler Memorial Day

Time for remembering...

                                                                 ..... and then home for lunch

Farmer boy favorite with salad and Auntay's rosemary bread

Tribute to Papa from SSG Frost and the 333rd

DJ