On 11/25/2016 12:47 PM, Derald wrote:
songbird wrote:

we are in the lull between generations now, the younger
ones are just getting married and thinking about having
kids. us older ones are happily whatever. the noisy time
is the idiot dog barking.

hope y'alls have a great time!
Same here. I grew up in family that conducted gigantic familial
schmooze fests on holidays and am grateful that my attendance at such
events no longer is required, expected, or requested; whew.
Fortunately, my family is so widely dispersed, primarily within the US
Southeast from DC southward, as to make such get-togethers impractical.
My wife sometimes comments favorably on her son's good judgement in
raising his children a thousand miles distant from grands!
T'giving day was ju-u-ust right, thankyouverymuch: Bright, sunny,
warm, with DW, me, the cats, and the garden in attendance and with just
enough cooking involved to tighen tummies.

We seldom do holidays on the holiday. Our grands, in their mid-thirties,
our kids in their mid-fifties, and us in our late seventies, get
together maybe twice a year but never on the exact holiday. Our daughter
is hosting and asked us all to NOT bring anything as she is doing the
whole thing on Sunday. That's good for us as we seldom cook huge meals
anymore, nor do we stuff ourselves silly as some young people do. Our
two eldest grandsons both work hard five to seven days a week and they
burn a lot of protein doing it so it is awesome to watch those two eat a
holiday meal. Even their own kids watch them with awe.

Yesterday dear wife and I had toasted cheese sandwiches and a piece of
cake from the store. She worked all day doing about fifteen fruit cakes,
which is her normal thing before Christmas. Her birth family are all in
Maryland so she will soon send off the packages. The rest of the fruit
cakes go to kids and grown grands plus local and distant friends. It
surely makes the house smell good and the dawg generally lays just
outside the kitchen and keeps an eye open for things falling off the
counter.

We were blessed with almost an inch of rain yesterday and it surely
looks like a rainy day may drop in on us today. Heavy overcast, very
little sun, wind out of the NE and a lot of us gardeners praying. Tap
water here is quite expensive and, honestly, there have been problems
with the water but not much.

I think I shall have a late lunch and then a long nap. Thank goodness
for naps.

George