Wanted to wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving.....this is my favorite holiday. Since I no longer own a house and don't have any room to have people over, the Thanksgiving Dinner Torch has been passed to my lovely daughter Johanna. She does a remarkable job. Last Thanksgiving was her first year to shoulder the responsibility for care and feeding and entertaining of about ten or twelve family and friends. The centerpiece of her dinner was of course the turkey....this being Johanna's first Thanksgiving preparation, she was unsure of how big a turkey to buy? Somewhere she acquired a 32 pound turkey!! This thing looked like a pony! The oven door barely shut! She had two or three of everything potatoes, veggies, relishes, breads, rolls, and desserts. She easily could have fed fifty people! Her poor husband and kids ate turkey leftovers for weeks. We had a little pow-wow this year. I explained that a 12 pound bird will be enough for the people coming and she really doesn't need three kinds of potatoes, six different veggies, five desserts.......etc, etc. She looked at me with those sweet little eyes and said "yes daddy, I know."
We are heading over to her house in a couple of hours and I just got off the phone with her. I asked about the size of the bird......"twelve pounds just like you said daddy" . "That's great baby" I remarked.
"Oh, I got a Ham too" she interjected at the last moment!!! "Wonderful" I remarked!
Oh well, "Tana" I yelled to my hunny bunny, "where are my FAT jeans?".... "You're wearing them" she retorted ! "Oh yeah I forgot....ARGHH."
Such is life at the dock............Have a Happy Day my friends.
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