Sunday

 Sunday lunch-followed by Caramel apple pie -  Elizabeth's marathon baking day resulted in several desserts and pastry s. We were the lucky recipients!

Lunch time  4:00

Piano Music

Thanksgiving 2011

Turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, dressing, sweet potatoes, red cabbage, broccoli salad, cole slaw, buns, lefsa, carrots, pickles, olives, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, chocolate revel bars, pecan pie bars, pumpkin muffins, coffee, sparkling white grape juice and sweetened homemade whipped cream for the pies.

Fun visiting with Roger and Ardis, Sheila and Charlie, Elizabeth, and the rest of us.

1 Day to Thanksgiving 2011

Just finishing the rolls, so I tried a new recipe to add a little color to the thanksgiving table....Red Cabbage

Tomorrow I will know if it's worthy to be on the successful recipe blog??

Gramma looked concerned and quizzical when she ask me if I had ever had Thanksgiving before??
The kitchen was somewhat of a mess at the time.

2 Days = Thanksgiving

Groceries, cleaning, and baking-we're almost ready. The turkey is thawing in a cooler, we finished grocery shopping this afternoon, and the lower level is cleaned.

Chocolate Revel bars, Pecan bars, Pie crusts for 4 pies, 2 for Thanksgiving, and 2 for Christmas (Frozen)

All while enjoying Celtic Thunder  

Over the River and......

through the woods..............................................

Thanksgiving preparation is starting............................at our house

Pre-Thanksgiving snow

Snow covered the ground and frozen lake - the first time this fall.
Since we can't weed the garden, mow the lawn, golf, or ride horse... we had to find other things to do.....

Found some beautiful yarn and convinced
Grandma she needed a scarf for her dress coat....

Laura making 'The best ever chocolate chip cookies'-

Exercise + Icing + Rush

Birthday

A beautiful November day with plenty of sun. We had a woodpecker and blue jay at the bird feeders this morning.




At 4 :00 Tea time Grandma had birthday cake-angel food cake, strawberries, and whipped cream.






Dinner at the Speak Easy

Transition

The leaves transitioned from green to gold and now are gone, leaving the landscape with various shades of gray.

It has been 7 months since Grandma came to live with us, and all in all it's gone quite well.

We've visited relatives, took in a couple of days of 2 conventions, and traveled for snacks at McDonald's, Subway, and the Cornfield cafe. We checked on things at the farm many times, and shopped in Fargo on an occasion or two.

With the change of weather, we may be at home more, and with the oncoming winter-I'm sure our traveling will cease at least for part of the time, anyway.

It's a good thing we observe 'tea time' at 4:00 as it breaks up the day, word search and cross word puzzles along with looking at pictures provide activities that can take hours. We wait for the Forum and Gazette as reading the news is a great addition to the week as well.



So with the time change we'll turn on the lights early in the evening-maybe find a game we all can play, and look forward to visits from ' the girls' who will hopefully fill the house with music and fun. We can't wait for the Holidays!