Well just like the rest of the year, this Thanksgiving has been like no other. First off, it was just the 4 of us today as Nana and Gung Gung celebrated their Thanksgiving in Virgina. Secondly, it seemed like it took us 3 hours to make dinner and we were done eating in about 30 minutes or maybe even less. Then, of course, another hour to clean up and we were done with everything before 2pm. We originally had planned on having dinner at 2pm, but the turkey cooked quicker than we calculated and so we had to scramble a little to get all the sides done. On the menu was roasted turkey, mashed potatoes, homemade Mac n Cheese, stuffing, sweet potatoes, cranberries and green bean casserole. To wet our whistle, we had apple cider mimosas. We do have lots of side dish leftovers, but honestly not much turkey. Whoever said that you should plan on 11/2 -2 pounds per person of turkey if you want leftovers, clearly never met our boys. Never the less, we are thankful for the good meal and a day or two of leftovers.

We’ve had a fairly cool fall so far, so it was kind of unusual for Raphael to drop by… or was it Michelangelo? To be honest, we don’t know which of the Ninja Turtles was in our yard a couple of days ago, but we are sure it was probably headed for higher ground as we have had a little over 4″ of rain the last 2 days. Raphael didn’t seem too worried as he made time for Sam to snap a couple of photos of him before he wandered off.

Well not something you would normally find in your shed… an opossum sleeping in a bag of dirt. Judging by his size he couldn’t have been too old, because we have seen much larger ones wandering around in the past. He seemed nice and snuggled up in the bag, but Dad wasn’t really too keen on leaving him there so Mom dragged the bag out onto the ramp and coaxed him out. As you can see, he wasn’t really very happy about being woken up in the middle of the day either. Alex, Sam and Mom all stood around and watch him walk off while Dad was questioning the logic of standing so close, but in the end he wandered off to hopefully find his family. At least he didn’t go into catatonic shock/play dead because we’re not sure what we would have done with him then. Later, when Dad was pulling the lawnmower out to mow the front yard, he realized that the little critter managed to poop on the lawnmower too – seems he had a busy night.

Later for Family dinner we had Bangers n’ Mash and Fish N’ Chips… seems Dad was watching Sky News in the workshop and thinking about all the pubs that would be closing on Thursday. Mom, of course, opted for oatmeal.

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