Happy Thanksgiving fellas, what are you thankful for!
Me, im thankful my ma is still with us and good health.
I’m thankful about your mom. Cherish her.
Happy Thanksgiving to all. What I wouldn’t give for another one with Mom… thankful I had her in my life.
Same here. Lost mom just before Thanksgiving 2018. She never got to my first born, her first granddaughter become a mother the following year. Thankful to see her with another newborn and turning out to be an awesome mom too.
I hope you all have an excellent turkey day.
The lost of moms are tough, even tougher when you lose her a week before Thanksgiving and her birthday is a couple of days after Thanksgiving.
We lost my aunt, who was the cook of the family, last September. Can’t remember if I poste it last year, but I’ll share her cheeseball recipe to help keep her memory alive. (Side note, from here on this post is lifted from a piece I wrote for Mike Ford at American Free News Network politics site, not yet published but meant for today.)
“Small Miracles”
My mind usually tends to wander a little before the Thanksgiving holiday, reflecting on all the little things to be thankful for, and recently I received an interesting lesson on perspective from an unlikely (and extremely small!) source. In a nutshell, if you’re looking for signs of God in the big things and not feeling like you’re seeing much, try the little things—the old saying is “the devil is in the details,” but so is God—especially His genius in creation can be found more, like in the ninety-plus percent of the DNA strand we share with lowly bacteria and all the little things that have to go perfectly right for there to be life at all.
My own lesson in this came in a heartwarming holiday moment from, of all things, a squirrel that lives in our front yard—we call him Lefty because when he first showed up he had a bum right foreleg, and the little guy’s become like family. Every morning over the summer he was climbing on our windowscreens at wakeup time like a fuzzy little alarm clock, he’s usually found either at the front door or using the lid flap on his feeder to remind us when it’s time to break for our own meals, and most helpful he’s usually on the lookout from his favorite tree watching for us to get home from the Saturday grocery run/Neighborhood Watch shift/etc errands so he can keep the Old Crab (yes, my mother knows I call her this, she’s a Cancer and started the whole thing!) focused on him and treats rather than badgering me while I work on getting the groceries put away and the car put to bed for the week. Plus the stress management help; usually when I need a break from live-in care or I find myself with the urge to reach through the internet and throttle some joker at the office, the little guy’s up for taking my mind off it by chasing peanuts or taking pecan and walnut pieces out of my hand. Sometimes when I’m not moving fast enough or the aches and pains of having burnt the candle at both ends in early life are catching up with me, he’ll even climb up my pant leg or onto the cooler next to my porch chair so I don’t have to reach as far.
Anyway, there was a streak a couple weeks ago where the little fuzzball wasn’t there for groceries, and missed most of the following week… and then sitting down to take a few minutes’ breather and recenter from the usual stresses, I noticed this brownish-gray streak heading straight across the yard for my left leg, Lefty wrapping his forepaws around my calf just above boot-top level considerably longer than would be needed teeing up the climb to my knee. Proof to me at least that there is a God, because only one of His Own Miracles could squeeze such a big heart into such a tiny little body—and a reminder that He sometimes hides His work in the smallest and least expected places.
Lefty, eagerly waiting for a pecan.
Sharp Cheddar Garlic Cheese Ball
2x 8oz cream cheese, softened
2 sticks butter or margarine
2 jars Kraft Old English Sharp Cheddar Cheese Spread
1 tbsp granulated or minced garlic
3 tbsp vinegar
optional: chopped walnuts, grated cheese
Cream together softened butter and cream cheese until well mixed. Add in jars of cheese spread and mix well. Last add vinegar and garlic. (Aunt Linda’s note: “I put the garlic in the vinegar while I blend the cheeses.”)
Roll in ball or log. Then roll in chopped walnuts or granulated cheese. Batch can be divided into smaller servings. (Aunt Linda’s note: “I usually make 1/2 recipe but the same amount of garlic and vinegar.”)
This Chritmas i will give Aunt Linda’s cheese ball a try! Ill file it under Aunt Linda in the recipe file. Thanks for sharing !
Happy Thanksgiving!
Another twist on the recipe: The one I made last year, I rolled it in bacon bits instead of walnuts. (Hey, I’m on a mostly carnivore diet here!)
It was my late father’s Thanksgiving favorite.
My late mom thought it should be her ‘special’ green been casserole.
Happy Thanksgiving all
Happy Thanksgiving all!! Pretty low-key for my wife & me, my son came over and it was great. My daughter is in TX with her family. My Mom and dad have been gone for years. Just keep moving forward. Hope everyone has a good day.
Dude, that is awesome. I’ve heard you talk of Lefty before. I’m glad he’s in your life!
I went back out to the sticks today and shot, close-in rifle work. Beautiful day for it! Life is good!
I am a little late as i been too busy to log on, But happy thanksgiving
I really like watching squirrels and even a little exciting when done from a hamock.
Odd to me how worked up people can apparently get over them getting in to bird feeders which can be mitigated by putting a feeder with corn out for them.
The last time I saw mine in person was on Thanksgiving last year and she was gone a week before Christmas. It’s hard to believe it’s almost been a year. Happy belated Thanksgiving to you and yours.