Thanksgiving

 October brought cooler weather quickly.  It has snowed here several times.  But, typical of the Treasure Valley, it melted by lunch time.  Still, it is beautiful to behold.

Our daughter Audrey visits us about once a month.  This month Cliff came with her.  They spent last weekend with us.  What fun it was to have Cliff with us too.  Sadly, I didn't get any pictures so you will just have to take their visit on faith.  Cliff loves to cook.  This visit he filled us with all sorts of ideas for cooking and food prep.  He introduced us to air frying.  We had fun trying that out.  I suppose I must admit that cooking isn't something I do for fun.  It is more of a necessity in my world.  But Cliff makes it sound pretty fun to try new things.  So this year we ventured to try deep flying our turkey.  Seth took it on and it turned out quite yummy.

Cliff and Audrey left for their home early Tuesday morning.  Their son Isaiah and new wife Aver arrived that night, on their way to California to spend Thanksgiving with the Adam-Harts.  They are such a cute couple and so much in love.  It is still their honeymoon you see.

CoVid has made a different world for all of us.  This year our Thanksgiving was smaller than it has been for some time.  By small I mean it was only the four of us celebrating together.  Reed and Dorothy had lots of D's family at their home so we didn't share the holiday with them either.  But it was nice.  How can we live in this wonderful place and not feel grateful.  We all worked together preparing our Thanksgiving dishes and all helped cleanup.  Here's a glance of our meal.

It was small but sweet.  We are counting our blessings every day.  One of those is our grandson, Vincent (son of Reed and Dorothy) who just left for his mission.  He was assigned to Australia but until it is open he will serve in the Washington DC mission.  He's there now and loves it so far.  We all joined in to wish him well; here is Seth and Angelica with Vincent.  

In the midst of troubled times, it is good to see the good.  There is much to see, and thank God for.