(wild trukeys caught on our trail cam / Gregory Cook / 2019)
From our turkeys to yours…..
A most blessed and peace-filled Thanksgiving!
The Mayor and the Sheriff wish you all happiness…
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a plethora…
“Well, you just told me that I had a plethora,
and I would just like to know if you know what it means to have a plethora.
I would not like to think that someone would tell someone else he has a plethora,
and then find out that that person has no idea what it means to have a plethora.”
El Guapo (played by Alfonso Arau) from the movie ¡Three Amigos!
(a vast array of tomatoes and vegetables at Campo di Fiori, Rome, Italy / Julie Cook / 2018)
A plethora…an abundance…a profusion…
And that is exactly what I am grateful for…
I am grateful for the abundance of family and friends that I have both here in
my small corner of the blogosphere as well as those in my small corner of this world
in which we live.
Thank you…each of you for stopping in…
for visiting, reading, caring, writing, sharing, loving…
and for making me smile, laugh, cry…as well as think…
Thank you for being my friend…even for those of you who do not see eye to eye
with what I write.
May God’s Grace abundantly bless each of you…
Keeping you safe, happy, warm, dry, well fed, free from harm and at peace…
during not only this Thanksgiving Day but throughout this season of wonderment,
joy and awe.
Happy Thanksgiving!!!!
Oh, and by the way…The Mayor has requested that her closet aides accompany her on a bit of
an excursion during the next couple of days.
Something about wanting to visit the place where she has her earliest family roots
while taking in a bit of serene history…she’s calling it a working holiday…
she can be such a slave driver…but when she says jump, we aides say how high 🙂
Plus… if you read yesterday’s post, I lived through the pumpkin pie making as well.
The Lord bless you and keep you;
the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you;
the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26
the Grace of Thankfulness
“There is so much in the world for us if we only have the eyes to see it,
and the heart to love it, and the hand to gather it ourselves-
so much in men and women, so much in art and literature,
so much everywhere in which to delight, and for which to be thankful for.”
L.M. Montgomery
“The unthankful heart discovers no mercies;
but the thankful heart will find, in every hour,
some heavenly blessings.”
Henry Ward Beecher
(Aunt Martha’s prized antique bronze turkey / Julie Cook / 2017)
As we gather together around this table of ours, to offer up our grateful hearts…
I am keenly, poignantly and even sadly aware as I take notice as to who is not
physically with us this year at our table….
Yet despite our losses and our sufferings, we continue to offer up our thankfulness
and gratitude to our Heavenly Father for all that was,
for all that is and for all that will be…
For it is from Grace that we have each received so very much…
that which far exceeds what we have ever deserved….
May each of you, despite life’s current circumstance, find time to whisper or shout
your words of thanks…..
for each of us, despite this current moment in time, can indeed find
something in which to be grateful…..
Blessings and Peace to all who read these words….
Give thanks to the God of heaven,
For His lovingkindness (graciousness, mercy, compassion)
endures forever.
Psalm 136:26
Be filled with the Spirit; speaking one to another in psalms and hymns
and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;
giving thanks always for all things in the name of our
Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father.
Ephesians 5:18-20
Happy Thanksgiving
Dear Lord; we beg but one boon more:
Peace in the hearts of all men living,
peace in the whole world this Thanksgiving.
Joseph Auslander
(vintage Thanksgiving card)
For, after all, put it as we may to ourselves,
we are all of us from birth to death guests at a table which we did not spread.
The sun, the earth, love, friends, our very breath are parts of the banquet….
Shall we think of the day as a chance to come nearer to our Host,
and to find out something of Him who has fed us so long?
Rebecca Harding Davis
For everything God created is good,
and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving,
because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
1 Timothy 4:4-5
Thankfully thankful
If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice.
Meister Eckhart
“Anything I cannot thank God for the sake of Christ, I may not thank God for at all; to do so would be sin. … We cannot rightly acknowledge the gifts of God unless we acknowledge the Mediator for whose sake alone they are given to us.”
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(a brown English transfer ware Spode platter / Julie Cook / 2014)
(a turkey ready for brining / Julie Cook / 2014)
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!
“Is that…”
A turkey in a cat litter box lined igloo cooler?
Why yes, yes it is.
Why do I have a turkey sitting in a cat litter box lined igloo cooler you ask?
Well, since I thought we could all use a good dose of humor today,
I’m providing a link to the post I offered up this time last year.
You know…it’s the story about my attempts at brining a turkey. . .
You remember the one…
The time I put a giant bird in a brining bag, filled with the 5 gallons of solution
only to have the bag split open in mid-step as I began to transfer the very heavy and
oh so wobbly bag of bird and brine to the refrigerator—
only to have the entire contents of the bag, all 5 gallons worth of liquid, slosh out of
said split bag, cascading out onto my new kitchen rugs and all over the hardwood flooring?
You didn’t forget that little escapade did you?
Well, incase you did, perhaps reliving that little holiday mishap is in order.
I think by now, with all the food, all the family, all the weather,
all the news we don’t want to think about, a little humor just might do us all some good!
It was the true stuff of nightmares and of legends all rolled into one.
Plus it was a very cold rainy day—it’s all coming back to me. . .
And whereas Dad won’t be making the trip over this year for Thanksgiving,
as they don’t feel as if they can make the drive which means they won’t get lost again,
we, on the other hand, will be going over to our son and daughter-n-law’s house to share,
along with all of her family, their first Thanksgiving as a married couple.
I’m certain there’ll be a story to share after this event of new togetherness!!
Despite not hosting this years annual shindig, I will still be cooking.
I will be taking the featured fowl’s show on the road.
Two cooked birds driving in the back of my car…hummmmm.
Should prove to be very interesting later today…
So when it came to this year’s attempt at brining a bird, I was ready—
I procured the strongest bag I could find in the house—which just happened to be a cat box litter liner.
Forget those wimpy brining bags, I needed hardcore.
And as for some sort of reinforcement for the liquid and bird-filled bag versus sitting a bag and a
bird on some flimsy little tray, a cooler was the biggest thing I could find to put the turkey in.
Is brining necessary?
Heavens no.
I’ve cooked many a turkey without it, but when one is offering up Thanksgiving Turkeys
(yes this year there are two) to one’s new in-laws…
brining sounds impressive and will hopefully prove beneficial.
Yet before I let this day pass, basking in what I hope will be a thankfully successful meal
with family, new family, and friends, I wanted to take a moment to thank you.
Yes, you.
All of my friends in this blogosphere of ours who stop in for visits on this little blog site
world of mine.
I want to thank you for becoming a part of my circle of friends.
For your insights, for your prayers, your wisdom, your interests, your comments,
your kindness and for sharing your life with me as you allow me to share mine with you.
I am blessed and my life has been made richer for each of you!
So on this day of thanks, may I say to you, Thank You!
Now fingers crossed the new in-laws like the turkeys!!
Happy Cooking!!
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