Talkin' Turkey

Teddy focuses on the fundamentals this Thanksgiving




I'm thankful for

• food
• God
• shelter
• my brother

Happy New Year

A small town once hired a famous landscape architect to plan a park for them. He agreed as long as he had complete control and as long as the plans could be kept sealed until his death. He set out planning the park and worked with a large crew to create it. The park was quite lovely, and the townspeople really enjoyed it. In the center of it, though, stood a small tree of a variety no one had ever seen. The famous landscape architect had come in at night with one crew member and planted it. Over the years, the tree grew, and it got quite ugly. It's foliage grew out in a lumpy, uneven pattern. Landscapers who did such a nice job tending every other plant in the park could never quite reign in this one tree. The townspeople were very curious as to what kind of tree it was, but the landscape architect would not reply to their letters of inquiry except once to say "you will find out upon my death". They tolerated the tree and the mystery for a few more years until news of the landscape architect's death appeared in the newspaper. They hurried to the town historical society and unsealed the park plans. Spreading a large map out on a table, they located the center of the park and saw this notation where the tree now stood: Nappy Yew Here!

Picture post: Thanksgiving Family Time

I didn't actually get a picture of the full Thanksgiving feast, but the kids chowed down on appetizers as dinner was being prepared.  Everybody loves Bugles.

Niece Sydney helped Grandma put out the ceramic turkey napkin rings that Grandma made in the 1970s.  It wouldn't be our family's Thanksgiving without them.

On Friday, we walked over to Grandma and Grandpa's new apartment, stopping for a cousins picture on the concrete turtle in the little park halfway between our house and their apartment.

The retirees in their partially-unpacked domain.

Unbidden, the kids started decorating Grandma & Grandpa's Christmas tree.  Hard to get a good photo with all of the light streaming in the windows.  It was done in about 10 minutes; we had to keep encouraging the taller cousins to hang ornament up high so they wouldn't all be in the lower third of the tree.

As the visit wore on, the kids got really into making paper airplanes.  They named them things like Blue Bay Blade and Double Crasher and Rainbow Spinner.  They had a flyoff in the balmy driveway.  Don't ask me why Charlie is wearing shoulder pads under his shirt in this photo and the one above.  Also, don't ask me what Cousin Sydney is doing with her hand on her head there.

Wordless Post - Thanksgiving