• Thanksgiving

  November 25, 2022

  Well, it’s the day after Thanksgiving and all through the house, not a belly was empty not even a mouse’s. Nice start to a poem! Now what? I’ve never been much of a poet, but I appreciate a good rhyme anytime. My apologies to Clement Clarke Moore.

• December Already

  December 3, 2020

  I can’t believe it’s December already, and time is flying by. It won’t be long (as the Beatles said) ’till Christmas is here and then New Year’s Day and 2021. It seems like just yesterday that we were hunkering down in the RV waiting for Spring!

• Black Friday

  November 27, 2020

  What can you really say about this made up, crassly commercial day? Well, you can get some good deals, and that’s a good thing. But people waiting in line for hours, fighting in the store aisles over stuff, knocking people over in their mad rush to get more stuff, and generally rude behavior… not so […]

• Thanksgiving

  November 26, 2020

  The celebration of Thanksgiving in America grew out of religious traditions associated with Protestant colonists and can be traced back to events in 1619 and 1621 in which thanks was offered to God for his protection and bounty. Early celebration dates varied in the United States, but President Abraham Lincoln set the date formally by […]

• Thanksgiving Dinner

  November 25, 2020

  So, the eternal question: What are we having for Thanksgiving dinner? I, for one, can provide an answer. Let’s see… Roast duck Cornbread dressing Cranberry walnut stuffing Homemade cranberry sauce Sweet potatoes Garlic butter baked round potatoes Gravy Green beans with ginger Corn Relish dish (deviled eggs, cashews, olives, tomatoes, cheese) Mixed berry pie I […]