Thanksgiving

I give thanks for my world.

(and my iPhone which takes panoramic pictures)

Today started with the Second Annual Turkey Day 5K.  A beautiful fall morning...sun shining by race time.  Jacob (22:30) was the big winner for the family, followed by Patrick (22:48), Mike (24:04) , who just took off after claiming he was going to "take it easy and not get hurt", then me (7th in my age group ~ official time 24:39 ~ watch time 24:33), Katie (28:06) & Megan (32:12), who proudly ran it all except for the water stop.  The end was rather interesting as the finish chute was about a tenth of a mile long...and BACKED UP.  After I finished the line into the chute started before the finish.  The workers kept yelling, "keep moving in the chute"  Except you can't really go any faster that the person in front of you.  There were so many people, they need to chip the race next year.  But I will still run it, even if they don't.  It's a great way to start the holiday of stuffing yourself.

As I said the weather was beautiful.  I heard of a weather forecast that they were predicting we'd have the warmest Thanksgiving in 30 years.  "Wow, I thought.  Great day."  Then I heard on another weather forecast that they were predicting the warmest Thanksgiving since 1982.  "Huh, I thought.  I guess I heard that other forecast wrong."  And I went about my day.  Later I was telling Mike how warm they were saying it was going to be...and it hit me.  1982 WAS 30 years ago.  (DUH...and I'm OLD).

Family celebration in Newbury was yummy and fun.  We ate & played Beersbee (well, we watched Katie & Mike play Patrick & Jacob).  We couldn't find anything to put the bottles on, so they used sledgehammers.  Which worked well enough until the bottle was knocked off and shattered on the hammer!  We LAUGHED.  Katie was so afraid of the frisbee she would duck and make Mike catch it.  At one point the frisbee came zooming toward her, she hit the deck (almost concussing herself on the ground) screaming like she was being fired upon. Her and her sparkly butt crack me up.