Happy Thanksgiving
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  • Subject: Happy Thanksgiving
  • From: &* C* D* C* U* A* 4* C* <c*@edwards.af.mil>
  • Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 13:36:00 -0800
Happy Thanksgiving from me too! We will be driving to my sister's house
tomorrow, with luck the traffic will be reasonable. On our roads the issue
is rarely going too slow, it's avoiding the people who are weaving in and
out of the two-lane road at 90mph.  
I had temporary insanity while doing the grocery shopping and now we have 3
turkeys. In my defense they were cheap, we have a big freezer and now that
we don't raise lambs there's lots of room in it.  I'll cook one on Friday
and we'll have the other two sometime. 
The vegetable garden is done for the year. There was a freeze while we were
in Arizona and that took out the remaining tomatoes and peppers. There were
a lot more peppers left than I thought and I felt bad I hadn't harvested
everything I could.  I did have the time even with all the little trips over
the last couple months, I was just lazy when I was home. But too late now. I
let the chickens out and they are cleaning up anything they can eat.
Downside of that is we have a rather aggressive rooster and he now thinks
the entire vegetable garden is his territory. We have to walk through there
to feed the horses so I may have to put them all back in their enclosure. 
I bought some new plants for the winter greenhouse this year, getting bored
with my usual geraniums and cannas that I bring in from outside. I'm trying
some succulents, some indoor plants for hanging pots, alyssum to tuck into
some other pots.  Home Depot had 50% off on what's left of their bulbs, so I
bought lots of paperwhites, a few amaryllis and a bag of freesias. They also
had a bin full of giant white squill bulbs - never seen 'em before so I
didn't buy any but after looking them up I think I'll go back during the
weekend and see if they're still there. I could try a couple in the dry
garden. 
I have to re-design my veg garden planting scheme this winter. I bought
Dripwork's irrigation "tape" last year - got tired of replacing the rubber
"leaky hose" every year after it clogged on our hard water. But the tape
delivers so much less water than the leaky hose I have to run it for almost
an hour during the summer, so I need to make sure all the beds using it are
on the same timer.  

Take care all and Auralie, hope your Chet continues to improve.

Cyndi 


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Subject: Re: [CHAT] storm....at last

In a message dated 11/21/2012 12:10:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
cathycrc@comcast.net writes:

Hope every one is doing better now, both in health and storm recovery.  
Been up to my ears editing the "member news" section of the Army Nurse Corps
Association quarterly newsletter. Just sent in the last of it.  
Free at last! Want to wish all a very Happy Thanksgiving. (I did
Thanksgiving dinner last week for my daughter from LA, who wanted to take
advantage of cheaper airfare, so we will go out tomorrow.  
Normally, I hate eating out on holidays, but no way am I cooking another
turkey.) Cathy, west central IL, z5b

Chet was doing well until Sunday when he had a bit of relapse.  We've seen a
couple of doctors and they don't find anything - just say be careful and it
will take time.  He still uses the walker and can't go down the stairs to
his office.
Oh well.  I know others have much worse things to worry about.
 
Here's wishing everyone a blessed Thanksgiving.  Neighbors have invited us,
and though I've offered, she says don't bring anything.  For many years I
made great Thanksgiving dinners - sometimes for as many as 24 people.  Then
at some point all our kids had grown up and all the godchildren were married
and wanted to have their own family Thanksgivings, and I agreed that they
should, but we were left without a gathering.  At that point we started
going to Chincoteague, Va. for Thanksgiving, and did that for 20 or so
years.  Then three or four years ago, Chet had one of his spells, and I was
frightened of being off down there with no help, so we haven't been back.  I
really miss it.  I used to love, especially our stop on the way at Bombay
Hook, Del. where we would see literally thousands of snow geese.
We have a pair of Mallards on our pond these days, but I really long to see
those snow geese.  Don't think that will happen.
 
Again, Happy Thanksgiving1
 
Auralie

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