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Baby Steps…

I’ve been wanting to ‘cut the cord’ with various forms of Social Media for a while, but have not quite been able to make the break. Despite all of the negatives, they do make it easy to keep in touch with family and friends. And the memories. I do love reading through the memories – all those things we shared with others – or they with us – over the past decade. 

I don’t know how having such easy communication has made us less connected. We know hardly anyone writes real letters – but no one sends email anymore either. We can’t even count on the once-a-year connection of Christmas cards, since so many people have stopped sending them.  Meanwhile, the Social Media that ‘connected’ us all has become a sea of memes and ads and very little real connection. 

So. Here we are. This is my attempt to connect – in a similar, yet different way. I don’t know what the final answer will be. But expect a Christmas card from us — and maybe we’ll even start writing letters again. Stranger things have happened.

Happy Thanksgiving

Anyone who knows us knows that we tend to make our holidays into whatever appeals to us, rather than what is ‘typical’ or ‘expected’. There have been years Thanksgiving meant a train trip into the mountains, a soak in the hot springs, followed by a Chinese meal in our hotel room. Other years we stayed home, but cooked anything but traditional Thanksgiving fare. This year we decided a turkey dinner actually sounded pretty good.

It was a most excellent choice. Kieran came over Thursday and spent the night, so we had two days of cooking, eating and generally hanging out together.

We divided up the cooking duties on Thursday – Michael did vegetables and turkey, I did stuffing and sauces, and Kieran made the pumpkin pie. Everything turned out perfectly.

On Friday we took advantage of a warm, sunny day before the predicted snow and cold to plant some bulbs and two varieties of garlic, and followed that up with Thanksgiving II – on the patio this time.