I have purposely chosen to not write about Halloween today, as it seems to me we have enough horror and fear around us. Instead, I wanted to let Baboons know what I am thankful for right now.
First, I am thankful to all the Baboons for putting up with all the posts I have written over the past several months about moving. I am sure they were getting pretty tedious to read. Moving is over, and now we are getting settled and organized. Not much more needs to be said about it.
I am also thankful for the increased time with our son and his family. We saw them yesterday in Sioux Falls and I got the best smiles from our 3 month old granddaughter.
Thanksgiving is four weeks away, and our son has requested a particular brined turkey ala Alton Brown, homemade French bread, and various other side dishes. Son and family, along with my best friend, will spend Thanksgiving weekend with us. I am so excited to cook in our new kitchen.
Finally, I am thankful that the court hearing Husband was to testify remotely at yesterday was settled on Wednesday afternoon. He had done a parental capacity evaluation on the parent in hot water with a central ND county. Now he is officially done working.
What are you thankful for these days. What are your Thanksgiving plans?
Trail Baboon 
Mostly I am thankful that I can get on the Trail today – yesterday, all day, WordPress wouldn’t let me in.
I am thankful that we are still relatively healthy, having seen multiple friends lately with severe health issues. Also thankful it’s not snowing yet.
Renee – it’s actually been fun to follow you on this journey, and I, for one, wouldn’t mind updates on what it’s like as you get to know your new place.
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OT: WP still won’t let me in to yesterday’s post, so I have no idea what that was about except from the title…
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Renee sent it to me, thanks. My comment would have been:
We have a swamp oak in the front boulevard, will lose its leave, which are just turning now, in the spring. Back by the garage is a… for some reason I can never remember the name. The leaves got those hard little bumps on the mid-summer.
They both had a sense of humor. Jonathan Winters had some hilarious routines, and Leo Kottke once described his singing voice as much like “geese farts on a muggy day”.
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thankful my medicare stuff finally got straightened out and im done with all involved with billing while im still going to continuing visits.
i am thankful for the opportunities i have to do the stuff i am in process on. contsiner homes bubble water recycling water medical rehab. it really is fun to get those ducks lined up.
thanksgiving is great. daughters in from chicago. son with twins and son with new job will be there along with the red headed crazy family daughter here rides herd on. mom age 95 and sister will be there too. i am one of 3 veggies and thanksgiving us always a favorite. side dishes galore along with tofurkey mashed potatoes and veggie gravy.
a far cry from thanksgiving when i had hamberger helper without the hamberger over a campfire complete with snow out at teddy roosevelt back in 73.
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I echo what Barb said. I enjoyed hearing about your move too. I’m grateful to you, VS, and Ben who keep this blog going come rain, shine, computer glitches, moves, and government shutdowns.
I don’t have much family anymore. My brother, sister-in-law, and nephew had me over last year, which was nice. I’m deeply grateful for my brother. He’s one of my best friends. I’ll probably go over to their house for a quiet family dinner. If not, I was thinking of having an orphans’ potluck at my new place.
I’m grateful for my brother. I’m also grateful for my health and independence. I just got through my own move, and most of it was under my own power. I’m grateful for friends old and new. I feel blessed every day to live in this fine community, and to be able to share with others here. Like I said before, I’m grateful to those of you who post this blog every day!
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Krista, I also enjoy hearing about your new place and the things you discover there, and how you like (or not…) the new space.
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It’s 90% good. The 10% is just because it doesn’t feel like home yet. It will in time.
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Rise and Shine, Baboons,
We will host Thanksgiving here for son and wife, and 4 friends. It should be a merry, gracious crowd. I still have to get over expecting Thanksgiving to be a crowd of 50 or more, which was the standard in my childhood when maternal grandmother hosted them. 2 turkeys, flatbreadas an hors D’oeuvre, giant bowls of side dishes and 10 pies for dessert. I am thankful for that lovely memory.
Meanwhile, Renee, I enjoyed your thoughts about moving, and the least I can do after all your years of helping this group to stay together, is read and respond. I am thankful for this adorable puppy, for the long term care insurance which allows me to have assistance with husband’s health needs, and for this group of friends which developed over time. I also love the autumn colors.
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OMG, what kind of house had room for 50?? I thought 22 was a lot…
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They had a small house in Pipestone but it had 2 rooms to entertain in. There was one huge table that sat 20, then 6-7 crd tables. She served it buffet style.
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When all families were present we kids sat on the floor. It was wall-to-wall bodies.
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Afternoon.
I’m grateful for being vertical and moving. Every now and then, I’m walking somewhere and I catch myself thinking, ‘nothing hurts at the moment’, and I’M WALKING, and I’m thankful. A couple years ago this wasn’t so easy.
So many people I’m grateful and thankful for. And the dogs.
And yet…
I have my book of Ron Swanson quotes from ‘Parks and Rec’ open to the page that says “One rage every three months is permitted. Try not to hurt anyone who doesn’t deserve it.”
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I am thankful that today Husband “offboarded” from his job with the State. He is officially retired!! Now he will be more present and less anxious.
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I’m not more or less thankful for it but, walking in the neighborhood this morning and observing the yard decor, I noticed that ghosts and witches, the long-favored personages of Halloween have been almost entirely been supplanted by skeletons of every size and disposition. Witches and ghosts are out. Skeletons reign. I wonder if this says anything about the present culture.
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And vultures picking the bones of the needy
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I spent a bit of time driving around my neck of the woods a few days ago and noticed the same vibe. I’m guessing it’s just a decor contagion… somebody does something fun/cute/memorable with skeletons and there we go….
What I was thinking was that Halloween decorations in yards have become much bigger deals/displays than they used to be. I’m not biting – just my cornstalk and my pumpkins. Oh, and my luminaries for the trick-or-treaters.
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I had a Baader-Meinhof experience last night. I was watching a British comedy wherein an estate lawyer was telling the beneficiary of a recently changed will because the deceased had been drugged and incapacitated at the time he ostensibly signed it. The attorney called it a “Weekend at Bernies” scenario.
While I have never seen the movie, I have a general idea of the plot. Here’s how Wikipedia describes it:
[The movie] tells the story of two young insurance corporation employees who discover that their boss, Bernie, is dead after arriving at his house in The Hamptons. While attempting to convince people that Bernie is still alive until they can leave to prevent them from being falsely suspected for causing his death, they discover that Bernie had, in fact, ordered their killing to cover up his embezzlement.
A short while later I glanced through the online news to find that a Congressman had described the current White House as “a Weekend at Bernies situation.”
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Oops! To clarify, in the first paragraph, the estate attorney was telling the beneficiary she would contest the will because…
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I have some many things I am thankful for that I don’t know where to start. I’m having a pretty great life. Not perfect but whose is?
Thanksgiving has been at Alison’s house for the past several years. She’s the oldest daughter of my dear friends, Alan and Julie. Pot luck. This is the “little year”, when the other two daughters (and kids) do turkey day stuff with their inlaws. So we’ll have 11. “Big year” is 26.
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