Giving Thanks for Thanksgiving

Hope you all had a great Thanksgiving yesterday!  In retrospect, it was probably the best Thanksgiving I've had in more than a few years.

Back in the day, as it were, the kids and grandkids came and we did the traditional turkey day event with the gals watching TV in one room and the guys watching football in the other.  It was a serious cooking and eating day.  Lots of warm and fun memories as I look back on those times.  Dad is gone, the kids are now the parents of grown and married children and are establishing their own traditions ... and I've moved to the mountains and it's winter weather.

Judi, and Foxy, came down and we spent the day putting our meal together, watching the dogs and their antics, visiting and enjoying a little cheese with our w(h)ine.  It makes for a very relaxing day when it's spent with somebody you're completely comfortable with; no need for constant conversation or entertaining, just hanging together is cool; no worries about impressing anyone with your housekeeping skills or the table setting or anything else; this is family without any family tension.  And dinner wasn't half bad either.

We do dinner together a couple of times a week with one of us preparing dinner and the other bringing wine and dessert.  This was a totally joint project with way too much food, but just enough wine, for two "mature" ladies.  It was a great Thanksgiving Day!!!

He was bored!

"Oh, you're back!"

Katie & I were gone, the kitten was outside.  There was a brand new roll of toilet paper on the floor.  What would you do?