A Gloomy Thanksgiving Morning

7:30

A gloomy, wet morning sky and just as depressing inside, as we will not be together with family since 1977 when we returned home from seven years in Istanbul. I know others are feeling the same way but it still hurts not seeing our kids and grandchildren. I was up at 6:20, read and listened to the news, was soon bored and decided despite the drizzle and overcast skies, to go kayaking, down to Magnolia and back, no doubt the only crazy on the lake.

Kayak Morning

Northern Sky

Wednesday was overcast as well but didn't start to rain until mid-afternoon.  It enabled us to have our usual morning routine and get in a walk.  We did not get our stuff together until 11:00, having lacked much mojo other than to clean up the kitchen.  

Webb's Trail

Clear Enough? 

We drove to Mayville and parked at the head of Webbs Trail and walked out and back, just under two and a half miles, on an often leafy trail.  We actually met another couple on our way back.  As we walked out, we glimpsed an orange vest off to our left about a hundred yards away, a  deer hunter sitting up in a blind. I yelled 'hello; to make sure he was aware of us and hope I did not scare away a deer.  We drove home around 12:30 and were surprised to see a cart filled with deer carcasses, sitting outside the Lighthouse which dresses close to a thousand deer each season.  They were up to 370 a few days ago,

Where's Waldo?

Lunch was a quesadilla and potato soup with chard and garlic.  I watched my show but was looking forward to getting back to my book and probably falling asleep. While I read,  Evie put together a pear and cranberry crumble with a ginger snap topping for our dessert, Neither of us did much the rest of the afternoon although Evie did go for another walk around 4:00 up and down the hill and around the neighborhood.  Around 5:00, she put together mac n cheese, something I had a hankering for, cooked it for a half-hour, then took it out and put in the coho salmon.  Both were better than expected, the mac n cheese, nice and gooey, the salmon mild and tasty with the maple syrup and soy marinade,  Dessert was the crumble with vanilla ice cream as we watched Colbert interview Obama; it was nice to see a President who acts like a normal human being.  We do so miss him. We then finished our series, The Tunnel, with mixed emotions as they seem to jam too many conflicts into the series and the ending left us somewhat up in the air.