Happy Turkey Day!

Thanksgiving...turkey, potatoes, pie...time to pull out the "comfortable" pants :P Mister and I have dinners on Sunday AND Monday with both sets of inlaws so we shouldn't have to eat for the rest of the week! I'm looking forward to having someone else cook for a change...and I'm hoping to be able to get out of dish duty.
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After my mother's father died in 1991, the whole extended family (comprised of the five sisters, their husbands and all their kids) would get together to help bed down my grandmother's house for her for the winter. That meant a variety of chores from picking up butternuts from the front lawn to putting plastic up on windows. Us kids would usually fall in line and collect several baskets of butternuts before tiring of work and heading off to the corn feilds (owned by our great uncle Carl -proprietor of Harvey's Big Potato) to play. The men would do the "rough" work outdoors while the ladies buzzed around inside preparing a huge feed. There was every kind of holiday food imaginable including Canada Goose, which was always a treat.

A few years later, my friend (and Rotary Exchange student from Japan) Kaori would forever alter Thanksgiving in my mind as "Turkey Day." She was so excited at the prospect of it, she spent the entire month beforehand preparing and wishing all she came across a "Happy Turkey Day!"