Thanksgiving

Went to Waupaca, Wisconsin last Thursday for Thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving also marks the final days of the deer hunting season. As such the fields and woods were full of guys (and some ladies) with their guns. Although I have no problem with this pastime I was annoyed that the great outdoors were off limits to me. The highway that took us to Wisconsin was adorned on either side by deer that had been hit by cars. Some of them looked like they were simply asleep while others had been cut in half by bigger vehicles. The thought of free venison was always on my mind.

Thanksgiving is probably as big a holiday as Christmas. And because of this we were treated to a banquet. Martha's family went all out. The turkey was cooked on the barbeque and was absolute perfection. I learned that meals that look and taste great are not necessarily hard to accomplish. A kitchen timer is an invaluable tool to the chef. Which reminds me, I cooked my first ever ham a few weeks ago. I'm in the big leagues now.

Rain was ever present over the weekend and when coupled with the danger of death by gunshot it made for a lot of time spent indoors. We played Scrabble on Saturday night. I enjoyed my finest hour. On one turn I managed to mop up 56 points by only using one letter. Triple word scores and double letter scores played to my advantage. I lost the game soon after.

Now that I think of it, the weekend was a very athletic one. I played pool, Scrabble, I bowled and on Thursday afternoon I played horseshoes in the garden. Oh, and I did some driving, which is also a sport. All that makes for quite the pentathlon.