Tuesday - 256th

It's day two of Thanksgiving week! This is when I should develop a cooking timeline. Normally, I'd be out grocery shopping. Not this year, of course. We had our food delivery. All that's left are the turkey and the bakery goods.

Ah yes, the turkey. Today, our bird moves from being a live animal, to something you marinate and sprinkle with herbs and stick in the oven for a hearty meal. Our farmers promise us that all their turkeys lead joyful, carefree lives. Today it all ends for the poor birds. Tomorrow I'll do a curbside pick up of our guy.

But it's hard to focus on any of the food preparation this morning. We wake up to a beautiful, sugar coated landscape!

It wont last. Not in its splendid entirety. By afternoon, the snow will change to a misty rain. But for now, it's lovely out on the farmette lands!

It's a good reminder that winter isn't a season we merely want to pass over and leave behind. Ed and I are real snow fans and especially when the white stuff comes in a quiet way, staying put on even the most delicate twigs and pine needles.

The day will come when every surface will be ice covered and slippery. When the car will feel bitter cold. When shoveling a path will be a chore. But none of that happens today. For a brief while, we are all enchanted!

Breakfast is a little hurried. I want to run over to my daughter's house to deliver some ingredients they need for their own holiday preparations. And I want to witness that kid joy that comes with the first bigger snow. I need to hurry before it turns soppy wet! Ed! Wake up! It's breakfast!

Ed! (Note that I finally trimmed both beard and hair.The Santa look is gone for now.)

 

I'm off.

For once I tell the kids to skip the masks. I'll stay only a couple of minutes and keep to a super distance. Sometimes it's good to let them just stay in a moment of normalcy. 

(The little girl has one outfit that she likes. Call it her isolation leisurewear.)

(Sparrow, on the other hand, is proud of any animal that appears on his shirt or sweater.)

 

Again I am thankful for Zoom, in my meetups with friends of course, and today -- in my camera lens!

It's true that by afternoon, the rain is pernicious and not at all pretty. But that's okay. We're promised sunshine for the holiday. Now, where was I with my Thanksgiving recipes??