2022 - Thanksgiving

 

Trying to decide which suit for Aragorn

😂

The gathering begins

My goal is to finish all Christmas shopping by Advent.

Can one play too much chess?

My parents visiting my sister and her family in Lodi, CA

😁

My other 2 sisters celebrating Thanksgiving.

We roasted a 42 pound tom turkey

and

smoked a 27 pound hen

Just fit (in our commercial size oven)

Rosie made 4 different kinds of muffins for Thanksgiving breakfast

Goldberry made an egg bake

tuckered out

Wedding china

(we actually have 3 different sets of china)

Cute little name tags by Rosie, of course

Took a couple full grown men to get the turkey out

Remembering our dear friend Tom who passed away this summer who often joined us for holiday meals. This little donkey was given to Kili after he had passed away. It came from Nicaragua. 

Also missing Aragorn's father and his carving of the turkey. I'm always specially reminded of him on Thanksgiving.

Our group of 20

feasting

(it's only sparkling grape juice)

We had to cut up the deer from hunting season but naturally the vacuum sealer broke so I headed out on Black Friday (!!!) to get a new one. They had TWO registers open and the line was about 20 feet from the back of the store when we got in line. It only took 10 minutes as they opened up about 10 registers. *phew*