Thanksgiving part one

Day before Thanksgiving has many responsibilities, one of which is to get non-esentials out of the house for a while, and guess who qualifies, -- that would be me -- so the kids took me to see the cows at the farm, which I always enjoy,

and then I got to walk in the pastures and alongside the old barns. -- main thing I was doing in retrospect was being "not-in-the-way

now later in the day we got down to serious business of cooking and these three went at cookie making like they knew what they were doing.

the whole crowd posed for a photo picking up one of the crumb chasers.

and there was some serious tasting of the preparations going on too.

At times, the work turned serious as the finer points of making molasses cookies were being discussed.

pots had to be found

games on iPhones had to be played - and even - shudder to mention the word, but shared too.

and more preparation, like table setting

we only had three tables set up.  and guess who got to sit at the kids table ? and also please note who was paying attention too.  Thank you Julianna.

and after dinner it was time for Patt to provide instruction in spades.  Those hours of internet work finally pays off in a big way.  Take 'em to school Patt.

PART TWO 

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