Musings

I took this three years ago. The leaf situation is about the same this year, however the ginkgo tree is gone from the neighbors’ yard, so no ginkgo leaves on the Prime. It was a female tree, and produced stinky fruit; they kept it for years, until it was too much work keeping the stink removed to keep it around.

Title refers to college football game underway as I type.

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Spent the afternoon coming down from our feasting high (like pie and ice cream with morning coffee). Guests gone. Leftovers seriously raided. A happy state.

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Yesterday we made sides and roasted the turkey. This morning we made desserts. Pumpkin and pecan pies, and pumpkin custard without crust.

Last before eating: the big heat-up.

Most thankful for our wonderful families and friends, a small sample of whom dined with us.

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Oops. Wrong holiday.

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We reserved a turkey to pick up today, raw and organic. Of course the let-us-know-you’re-arriving app didn’t work, so I was a tad apprehensive that there’d be a line and a mix-up. Only one person ahead of us, and they found our reservation record quickly, so all good.

Then we shopped for the rest of the list, and by the time we left, about 3pm, the parking lot was full and the store noticeably more crowded. Me, I’m glad I don’t have to fly or fight traffic for several hundred miles, otherwise than here in our neighborhood.

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Different place (Idaho). Different season (spring/May). Right energy for our news: we’re boosted!

BTW, The Internets indicate that the geographic origin of the common lilac is in the Balkans. Like me (ish; half, anyway).

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I used the GooPhotos wayback machine and dredged up this image from fifteen years ago. Taken with a Real Camera, and not a phone. It’s First Pond, across the road from the house I grew up in and in the interior of the section…in Midwest township and range territory.

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Thinking about feasting this coming week…and working on my to-do lists.

This feasting tent was last Saturday at a nearby synagogue…lunch following services is standard….

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Too many leaves are falling this week for them not to be caught in other still-green vegetation.

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These were coming down and coming down and now the back yard is carpeted at least three deep in supple golden leaves.

I found these elsewhere, and particularly liked the scalloped, serrated margins. And the goldenness.

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