{"id":10713,"date":"2024-11-26T12:14:33","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=10713"},"modified":"2024-11-26T12:14:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:14:33","slug":"our-thanksgiving-came-early-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2024\/11\/26\/our-thanksgiving-came-early-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Thanksgiving came early this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

As David’s mother-in-law is having their family get-together on Thanksgiving Day, we agreed we’d have ours the Sunday before. The weather was nice, unlike many former Thanksgiving family days. I remember, back in 2016, we had nearly two feet of snow on the ground, and everyone got together and built a substantial snow fort. The snow was just right, nicely packing and not too cold. This year, it was cold but there wasn’t a flake of snow on the ground.<\/p>\n

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Here’s what Thanksgiving looked like a few years ago! Big difference this year.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sons, David and Bill, and their families came, and we all sat down to a big, fat turkey dinner with all the trimmings, of course. We all had a good time and ate more than we probably should have. But, hey, it’s no time to diet. Right?<\/p>\n

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We all gathered for a big family dinner.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Yesterday, I had to go to Duluth, to Aspirus St. Luke’s Hospital for a CT scan at 11 A.M. It’s part of a testing process I have to do before I have a heart valve replaced. We woke up at 7 this morning to nearly five inches of snow and it was still snowing. Luckily, we’d watched the system coming and got up early, fearing the roads would be horrible. They were snow-covered and a little icy, but Will drove the whole 100 miles in just 2\u00bd hours, including potty stops along the way. And he drove safely, too. I won’t hear the results of the CT scan until the end of the week, so I’ll put it out of my mind until then. Too much other stuff to do. Like canning up the leftover turkey plus the on-sale celery I got at Aldi’s. It’s supposed to be cold all week with highs only in the teens and low twenties. It’s good to have indoor jobs!<\/p>\n

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As we headed out the driveway yesterday there was plenty of new snow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

— Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As David’s mother-in-law is having their family get-together on Thanksgiving Day, we agreed we’d have ours the Sunday before. The weather was nice, unlike many former Thanksgiving family days. I remember, back in 2016, we had nearly two feet of snow on the ground, and everyone got together and built a substantial snow fort. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10717,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions\/10717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}