It\u2019s actually late the night before Thanksgiving. You\u2019d think I would have figured it out earlier since I\u2019ve spent the day baking pies and making Bill\u2019s favorite cranberry and orange relish. It\u2019s also Wednesday, which isn\u2019t at all surprising since Thanksgiving is always on a Thursday.<\/p>\n
But here\u2019s what I just this minute figure out. I didn\u2019t write the blog this week\u2014at least no so far.<\/p>\n
So I\u2019m doing that now.<\/p>\n
Back in the old days\u2014before Bill\u2019s health situation intervened\u2014Thanksgiving was the only real meal I cooked. The idea that I could cook anything edible would come as big a surprise to the girls who shared my kitchen in Home Ec class at Bisbee High School in 1958. (Yes, that was back in the even older days when Home Ec was still a thing!) I managed to scrape through that class with a B, but I suspect that the girls I was cooking with still remember our disastrous chocolate pie. I don\u2019t remember exactly how much salt I put into the mix, but it was way more. Than the recipe called for. As for the pie? We had to eat it!<\/p>\n
But after two years of no Thanksgiving I\u2019ve really been looking forward to this year\u2019s edition. I thought we were going to have two celebratory dinners, one last week and another tomorrow, but one of the two WSU granddaughters came down with Covid. She\u2019s better now, thank goodness, but our number for tomorrow has been pared down to six guests only. It\u2019s still going to be the full meal deal.<\/p>\n
And as a result, I\u2019ve been so looking forward to that time for writing the blog almost got away from me. As a bonus, I\u2019m going to pass along something that has raised my spirits all week long. I\u2019ve been singing an old Glen Campbell song while I\u2019ve been driving the car or getting my steps. I\u2019m not going to quote the song here because I don\u2019t want to violate any copyright laws, but the title of the song is Less of Me.<\/p>\n
For some of you, the ones susceptible to ear worm, my just mentioning the title will automatically set the words running in your heads in endless loops. The rest of you may need to look them up, but go ahead and do so Trust me, it\u2019s good advice.<\/p>\n
My Thanksgiving wish for all of you is that you enjoy the people who share your day tomorrow and treasure the loved ones who are far away. Because it\u2019s time for all of us to Savor the Season. It\u2019s been a long time coming.<\/p>\n
And just for the record, I\u2019m incredibly thankful for all the readers who have made it possible for me to live my dream for the past forty years. Not many people get to do that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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