This image is from this really fancy French food blog (unlike yours truly).
Merle and I spent Thanksgiving Day afternoon at my mother's house along with a couple of other guests she invited. It was quite sedate compared to the typical Thanksgiving celebration at her house. A typical Thanksgiving Day at my mothers' would include a multitude of overactive children and teenagers. Various wild and crazy sisters accompanied by their standard husbands of a less volatile nature and one or two dogs. Fattening Foods would be stacked in heaps on the long kitchen counter and everyone would be talking at once. However, this past year has seen an upheaval in family relations, so we wait and see what the future holds for family gatherings.
FRIDAY
The day after we took a trip to Boulder looking for one of those revolving colored lights for our old silver Christmas tree. Here is our tree - we LOVE it!
We went to our favorite store - McGuckin. I've mentioned it before. It's a wonderful hardware store and much more. We usually spend at least an hour browsing around and never leave without spending more than we planned to spend. Here's a picture looking down one of the main aisles (there are several main aisles)..JPG)
This is a picture of one end aisle display showing some of the unusual Christmas lights they carry. McGuckin's has things you just don't find in other stores..JPG)
And we got a laugh out of this one. All of those fancy sleds and then of course, the original inner tube sled. Our favorite. You just have to be very careful of that stem on the inside rim - it's a butt buster. 
Alas, they actually did not have any of the revolving lights we wanted, so we bought a bunch of other consolation gifts for ourselves, headed home and ordered one on eBay. You put it beside the tree so that it shines on it and as it rotates, the tree turns different colors
That evening our daughter and her husband arrived here in Colorado from Arkansas with all of their worldly possessions in a Penske rental truck, driven by Jonathan, towing one car and Audrey driving the other. Each human was accompanied by a dog. After a late meal, the exhausted couple retired.SATURDAY - MOVING DAY.
The whole day Saturday we helped them put everything in storage except for those things they will need in their temporary home. We then moved them into their temporary home in my mother's basement. A very nice basement including large bedroom, large family room with huge big screen TV, a fireplace, a pool table and a very nice large bathroom. They will be residents of this fine abode until they "get on their feet". Jobs, saving money and then moving to affordable digs with the dogs.
SUNDAY
Today, Merle and I have enjoyed being home, taking a brisk bike ride in the foothills, sitting in the sun on the deck eating cranberry salsa and chips and then each doing our projects. We'll watch a movie later on. Here's my project- it's called Christmas Branches. Branches and pine cones from the yard, fake snow lightly sprayed on branches, chartreuse lights.
