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!"

school daze

I'm teaching grade four today at a local elementary school. Fortunately, it's only a half-day position so I have the opportunity to relax this morning. Mister called me a "big lazy a**" :P

I have this giant to-do list of things that I could/should be attending to but I can't seem to do much more than play World of Warcraft and listen to Sowerby and Luff's "Big Squeeze" podcast (from the UK). Maybe I *am* a big lazy a**.

getting started

I'm just getting started. This blog will likely be no more than a glorified journal.

It's fall in New Brunswick again and the weather has been gorgeous. Clean, crisp air and sunny days make for a real treat when I actually venture outside. I really ought to get in the habit of it.

This shot was taken on STU campus last fall.