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Happy Thanksgiving Ya'll!
I'm spending the day alone for the most part.. hubby had to work a 12 hr shift and the little one is at her dads for the day. We'll have our Thanksgiving dinner tonight once everyone gets home. This is the first quiet Thanksgiving that I've had in a while, years! It seems very strange.
I like to cook when I'm alone. I don't have to stop and do anything unless it's to tend to one of the furbabies or something. Usually I just leave the backdoor open and watch them playing outside.
Speaking of Furbabies... A couple of months ago we adopted a Boxer from the animal shelter nearby. He was soooo skinny, his hip bones stuck out and his ribs were showing..he weighed only 34 lbs the day that we got him, poor baby. Like everything else around here. myself included.. I can proudly say that he has some meat on his bones now and has easily gained at least 20 lb lbs. He's beautiful, shiny and spoiled rotten. He is definitely full blooded..I can't see someone just chunking him out.. but maybe they got him not realizing the high energy that they have. We named him Sam, the name just seemed to fit him. He loves to love on you and give hugs.. such a personality too!
Animals just seem to come to us for some reason.. We had a stray cat that had beautiful white kittens and we luckily were able to give them all away to a great family who took the mother too. A few days ago, we looked outside and there was yet ANOTHER stray cat lying on the blanket on the porch all snuggled up to the yard dog. This is a HUGE big male cat with long hair.. he disappears during the day, but at night he's right back in his spot next to the dog.
The downside of living in a rural area is that idiots dump their animals out here pretty often. I think the police should make a few examples out of these people that choose to do that.
This is a very bleak Thanksgiving for some people in this town this year. Our local paper mill closed down just last week.. never to reopen again. Since this has always been a Mill town and that's the main industry here.. well, the ONLY industry really.. it scares me for the town.. it scares me for even MY job on down the line. We had a local car lot go out of business here too and the huge lot is empty now.. just a product of the sad state of our economy this year. I'm thankful that we both have jobs, and even though we'll never get rich at either of them.. we both enjoy what we do and we are blessed in so many ways.
I had an old man tell me the other day that this is the time to be frugal.. to save instead of spend and to cut back when and where we can. Times are bad for this nation as far as the economy goes.
I'm cutting back on spending this year.. We'll buy for Chels of course, but the older, grown kids we won't. They all have jobs, minus my daughter whom I haven't seen in 2 yrs come April. We've spent on all of them every year and never as much got a Christmas card from them. We'll buy for our Mothers and each of us have a brother that we will buy something for, 3 teacher gifts this year and each other, and that's basically going to be it. I would love to buy for my Grand daughter, but... they wouldn't give it to her if I did.. so I'm not wasting the money, besides.. she has no clue who I even am.
Any suggestions on Teacher gifts this year? I usually do dish towels because I like to give something that they can use.. but I'd like to do something different this year, I just don't know what.
I'd better get back to cooking..
Happy Thanksgiving!
I'm spending the day alone for the most part.. hubby had to work a 12 hr shift and the little one is at her dads for the day. We'll have our Thanksgiving dinner tonight once everyone gets home. This is the first quiet Thanksgiving that I've had in a while, years! It seems very strange.
I like to cook when I'm alone. I don't have to stop and do anything unless it's to tend to one of the furbabies or something. Usually I just leave the backdoor open and watch them playing outside.
Speaking of Furbabies... A couple of months ago we adopted a Boxer from the animal shelter nearby. He was soooo skinny, his hip bones stuck out and his ribs were showing..he weighed only 34 lbs the day that we got him, poor baby. Like everything else around here. myself included.. I can proudly say that he has some meat on his bones now and has easily gained at least 20 lb lbs. He's beautiful, shiny and spoiled rotten. He is definitely full blooded..I can't see someone just chunking him out.. but maybe they got him not realizing the high energy that they have. We named him Sam, the name just seemed to fit him. He loves to love on you and give hugs.. such a personality too!
Animals just seem to come to us for some reason.. We had a stray cat that had beautiful white kittens and we luckily were able to give them all away to a great family who took the mother too. A few days ago, we looked outside and there was yet ANOTHER stray cat lying on the blanket on the porch all snuggled up to the yard dog. This is a HUGE big male cat with long hair.. he disappears during the day, but at night he's right back in his spot next to the dog.
The downside of living in a rural area is that idiots dump their animals out here pretty often. I think the police should make a few examples out of these people that choose to do that.
This is a very bleak Thanksgiving for some people in this town this year. Our local paper mill closed down just last week.. never to reopen again. Since this has always been a Mill town and that's the main industry here.. well, the ONLY industry really.. it scares me for the town.. it scares me for even MY job on down the line. We had a local car lot go out of business here too and the huge lot is empty now.. just a product of the sad state of our economy this year. I'm thankful that we both have jobs, and even though we'll never get rich at either of them.. we both enjoy what we do and we are blessed in so many ways.
I had an old man tell me the other day that this is the time to be frugal.. to save instead of spend and to cut back when and where we can. Times are bad for this nation as far as the economy goes.
I'm cutting back on spending this year.. We'll buy for Chels of course, but the older, grown kids we won't. They all have jobs, minus my daughter whom I haven't seen in 2 yrs come April. We've spent on all of them every year and never as much got a Christmas card from them. We'll buy for our Mothers and each of us have a brother that we will buy something for, 3 teacher gifts this year and each other, and that's basically going to be it. I would love to buy for my Grand daughter, but... they wouldn't give it to her if I did.. so I'm not wasting the money, besides.. she has no clue who I even am.
Any suggestions on Teacher gifts this year? I usually do dish towels because I like to give something that they can use.. but I'd like to do something different this year, I just don't know what.
I'd better get back to cooking..
Happy Thanksgiving!