We began our Thanksgiving Day with the Turkey Trot 5K run.
The scooter and bike really helped move our family along.
These pictures are from our family dinner. We had a fun week of turkey dinners. I had spent the previous saturday helping kill and pluck a turkey. Our friends, the Hortons, raised a turkey for me and then I went to help kill and clean the bird. It reminded me of the days helping at my Grandpas house. But I must have been only about 10 years old when those headless chickens were running around the yard. Once they stopped running my grandpa would hang them by their feet on a line to drain. Once they were drained it was my job the carry them in a big cast iron pot from the orchard down to the basement where they were very busy scortching and plucking and cutting and processing chicken. I will never forget the smell, it is very distinct, of dead warm chicken. I cooked the fresh bird on Tuesday because I didn't want to have to freeze it. So we had our turkey dinner on Wednesday. Then my family's gathering on Thursday and a turkey dinner @ the Hale's on Friday.
Amy Christensen and family came for Thanksgiving. It was Sam's birthday and it was great to be able to spend time with them.
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