Thanksgiving.

I have so much to give thanks for, really I'm quite spoiled. I had my parents, my sister and her family and my brother over for Thanksgiving dinner and everything worked out just right. Dad also spent the couple of days he was here to fix my kitchen drawers and rewire the bathrooms and ground the plugs by the kitchen sink. Samuel got a buzz from helping him.

I feel much safer in the kitchen, feeling like I won't burn my house down, and it is also very handy to be able to blow dry and curl my hair in my bathroom. Here is a picture of the guests and the tables...


I was happy that I had cloth enough for the tables and that they looked nice. The turkey also turned out well, it was done by 9:00am and made the house smell great. I just left it in the oven and it cooled just right to be carved at 11:30. It couldn't have gone better. Martha made the potatoes, the cranberry salad, the vegetable tray, another salad and one pumpkin pie, Samuel made another pumpkin pie and an apple pie that Dad quite enjoyed and Mom brought the rolls, some green beans, the ice cream and herself.

It was very nice to have Mom there to help set up the tables and just get everything organized. I always feel very fortunate to have the family I do. Like I said, I'm spoiled.

ZZZzzzzzzzzz! ZZZzzzzzzzz

I had my first house guests this weekend: LeAnn and John Halgren stayed Saturday night after the BYU choir concert and went to church with me on Sunday. All of their college children either came to church or made it by lunchtime to my house. It was quite fun.



Some of you may be familiar with the Halgren family. They have the unique gift of being able to sleep in any position in any place, regardless of surrounding circumstances. This particular film is only a small demonstration and, to be fair, happened this Sunday afternoon, so David and Kyle have good excuse for their naps, having just eaten a wonderful soup prepared by me. They also are in absolutely normal positions, even though David, in the middle of the floor was stepped over frequently without obvious effect...I'll have to get another picture at some other time to really show their abnormalcy.

Autumn Time

It was very fun to be able to rake leaves...I got five big garbage bags full and I packed it in, ripping one of the bags in the process. I didn't dare jump in the leaves as I have a catalpa tree that drops pointy seed pods and the leaves were also a bit damp. It was quite a workout and I had sore shoulders for a couple of days, however I did have fun being outside and working up a sweat. Another blessing that I received, referent to the leaves is that they all fell down at once. All of my neighbors have these trees that drop little annoying leaves little by little and so they are always having to rake their yards. My tree, happily, has huge leaves that didn't fall for the longest time, but when they fell, they all went together. It was a cinch to rake them up because they are so big and now I may have to rake once more, for the few that were left, but all in all, I'm done for the year. Blessings, blessings, blessings.




Also, when I was going back inside, I noticed that I had a visitor knocking at the door. I was none other than my friend the wolf..spider. He was about the size of a quarter with his legs and all. I decided to send him on his way...I didn't crush him or anything, just told him that he wasn't invited and he probably entered through another route.