Sun once more

At the Tuesday night family dinner we planned out a lot of Thanksgiving dinner.  As far as we know there will be 17 of us. A smaller number than in years past. Eight of them are my youngest son's kids;  the ninth one is married and now has conflicting holiday requests to process. We'll gather at his house.  It's a big house and the kids have room to roam inside and out.

I'm in charge of green beans and devilled eggs. Not a green bean casserole though, these are cooked in heaps of bacon and almonds. I put avacado in some of the eggs and once they got used to green eggs (and no ham) they were the first ones to be eaten. Interestingly much less dessert than usual. I wonder if that will make it to the finish line.  It already made me think about making and bringing a cheesecake, maybe pumpkin cheesecake, with chocolate. OMG.

Fall is racing by. We have sun and 50 again today replacing the freezing, day long fogs we had last week. I'm going for a walk in this park as it shows off the of last of it's fall colors before the big leaf drop.

You can see snow in the hills down low enough to be seen from town.  The recent snow will put an end finally to some of the wildfires still smoldering in the high hills. We tend to forget about them after the smoke disappears in September but they are there.  How lucky we have been. We got a reminder to sign up for our county emergency notifications prompted I'm sure by the horrors of the heartbreaking California fires.  The San Diego Union Tribune published a list of places to contribute to help with aftermath of the CAmp, Woolsey and Hill fires if you are of mind to do that.

Hope your Thanksgiving is good.

November Angst

I voted as soon as our ballots arrived and returned it promptly.  Today I am avoiding the news as I have considerable anxiety about the outcome. Fingers crossed, etc. So glad Washington does mail in ballots. For one thing it allows me to sit at the dining room table and re-read the content of the items carefully in peace. And of course it's very convenient.  You don't even have to put a stamp on it in Washington State.

I was going to to post every Friday but got derailed as usual. Looks more like once a month. How did it get to be November so soon? I did some early Christmas shopping.  I hate to admit I'm at it this early. Eleven grandkids and this year I am tired of handing envelopes of money.

Our leaves here have lost most of the color right now. I'm going to take the grandkids for a drive up into the hills today to see if we can get some photos.  I haven't taken any for quite a long time and I need to exercise my camera and me.

Hope we all get what we need from today.