Good morning, all! I spent the yesterday seeing a doctor about an exam in 2 weeks, stocking up for the weekend, making a large batch of chicken soup, and cleaning the house. A year ago at this time, I was still hobbling around in pain after the first of two surgeries and not feeling so hot. I have so much to be thankful for and one of them is for all of you. Thank you.
As for the TOD: my family's Thanksgiving every year I can remember, before my leaving home, was a huge family gathering at my mother's sister Jean's home. Of the seven children on my mother's side of the family, usually six of them with their spouses and children showed up for the big event in Hamilton, Ohio. Outside of a wonderful meal, I wasn't crazy about the day: too many cousins I never wanted to see, and too many jocks watching nothing on television but loathsome football, to my mind the stupidest sport ever.
Between 1980 and 1985, every Wednesday before Thanksgiving, a troup of friends drove in from Ohio for the weekend. They brought the turkey, which I roasted on thursday morning, and went to the parade while I prepared the basis of the meal. When they returned, everyone pitched in to help and around 2:00 all the guests I'd invited showed up. There were usually between 15 and 25 people here for Thanksgiving dinner. I remember Ethan Mordden playing Broadway music and Ken Mandelbaum and others singing along, and the guests usually came and went between 2 and 9 pm. It was a lot of fun, The last year, one of my Ohio friends brought along a drunk who spent the entire four days plastered. The same friend who invited the alcoholic also screwed me over with a promise to uses his car to help me carry a furniture gift up from the Village. That was the end. I miss it. Some days.
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING, EVERYONE! GOD BLESS YOU ALL.
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