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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!I hope you are all enjoying the day -- wherever you are celebrating. If you're seeing this post, drop a quick line and share a bit. I'm remembering that this time last year I was pulling of a successful Thanksgiving coup (thanks to the help of Marc), arriving at Dick and Jean's to surprise my parents for dinner. That was fun.
This year, things are a bit more mellow, but equally pleasant. I have a nearly unprecedented four days off from work or call (wohoo!), and have driven with the dogs up to Seattle to meet up with Mom and Dad and 'THE VECTRA". Mom's got quite the feast going in that little kitchen. The magical easy-bake oven has been put to the ultimate test. Dad is getting his Thanksgiving football fill (for those of you eagerly waiting the results of the OSU vs Uof O "Civil War", the Beavers won, which for me means that moods will be happy in the office next week.) I escaped football madness earlier today to spend a bit of time exploring downtown Seattle -- I love wandering through cities on holidays, when everything is closed and the pace slows down to about quarter speed.
Anyway, I hope everyone is enjoying the day wherever you are -- Vermont, OKC, on the Slopes of Taos, and anywhere else we may have infiltrated. Happy Thanksgiving!
posted by baby catchin' wein @ 3:31 PM
2 Comments:
I think the memory of Christine surprising her father and mother in 2005 at Thanksgiving will always be one of my favorite holiday memories! What a great, if wandering group you all are. Enjoy the holidays and, in the words of Gomer Pyle: surprise, surprise, surprise (hopefully with random acts of kindness)!
Nan and Dave (Pete's parents) drove from Michigan to have Thanksgiving with us and it was amazing. Nan and Pete and I cooked like crazy and we had such a feast!! It was a feast that would have made both Weinmeisters and Webbers proud!! I'm talking farm-raised turkey from Vermont, spinach souffle, creamy mashed potatoes, carrot-apple-ginger cream soup, pumpkin pie from scratch, mulled wine, muscadet, and cranberry sauce!! Pete and I are still revelling in the glory (i.e. leftovers.) The day after Thanksgiving, we all went and cut our own Christmas tree and then decorated it with various and sundry ornaments crafted from such precious materials as pipecleaners, origami paper, and copper cookie cutters. It is a thing of great beauty. So needless to say, we are minding our seasons here in Vermont. I loved Chris' surprise last year, too. Man, we love our warm family holidays, don't we?
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