Our Thanksgiving this year came together very nicely even though our Thanksgiving was wildly disorganized and we did not even expect to be here before it all started. We are very grateful to our guests (Jack N., Dan T. Warren B., Aaron L., and Charlotte D., not to mention Kelly and Christian) because they all fit in nicely to a fairly chaotic but enjoyable Thanksgiving weekend. Most of us were able to attend a special, Spanish language church service on Friday which very much put the right kind of emphasis on the whole affair.

On top of that, Kiwi the surviving cat sister was the true miracle of the weekend. We emptied the oranges from a cardboard box and before we could move the box Kiwi climbed in. She spent most of the weekend there, minimizing the number of times we had to lock her in her room because she was getting into things to a record low.

We cooked two small turkeys over the weekend and were going to make soup, but Lorena accidentally threw out the broth from the simmer down of the turkey remains after we meticulously removed the fat and other detritus. Oh well. We will try again over Christmas.