Happy Thanksgiving every one! Colin’s family has a big thing to be thankful for this year. On Thursday his sister’s husband had a heart attack. Luckily he wasn’t alone and they are close to Renfrew so the ambulance was quick to arrive. They rushed him off to Ottawa to the Heart Institute and they put in a stint. He recovered quickly and was even home on Saturday!! I’m taking Thanksgiving dinner to them today. Colin and Dad are spending a second day down there getting their wood prepared for the winter. Sure makes me glad we heat with corn, so much less work.
I’m not sure what’s up this week. The bike park is closed so one of the other moms is trying to find the kids an indoor place. I hope we can because Ella had so much fun on the ramps.
Monday:
turkey, dressing, mashed potato casserole, biscuits, corn, peas, Caesar salad, apple pie, and lemon meringue pie
Tuesday:
hot turkey
Wednesday:
turkey and biscuit casserole
Thursday:
stew -freezer
Friday:
leftover casserole
Saturday:
leftover stew
Sunday:
breaded pork chops
I’m an Organizing Junkie is taking a holiday today, so you’ve just got me.
At Home With Us 
Wow so thankful for the fast response and healing that happened for your Thanksgiving. You are so blessed to have a loving family close and wonderful to do the wood for them as well…we heated three fireplaces with wood in Ely, Minnesota. How very difficult it was… I have done wood for many years, and love doing it too..smelling it, splitting it , stacking, but if one is behind an burning green wood, as we always seemed to be it was more of a challenge… Your dinner sounds lovely.. Here in Southern Mn warm temps and dark days for weeks now.. no sun for week and a half at least ……… we are promised sun Friday. Leaves are slow turning here..but tops are coming in….. we had sixteen tornaodes headed at our town two weeks ago..six hit us and the small towns around in a clock like circle.. we here lost hundreds of old seventy foot plus trees…… and our farmers lost their corn in many instances… having to try to harvest too soon after they hit us…. our town is still cleaning up … winds were 165 mph EF1..and six tornadoes with that… Faribault lost the entire airport and planes in it..hundreds of trees…… Cannon Falls lost barns and farms….. behind me lady lost all her sugar-bush maples..and old ones.. plus hundred on her old farm alone and lost her corn…………. but miracle in it is no one was hurt or injured…… I kept getting calls that night every five minutes to take shelter..being in an apt it was pulling all pets and me to the center…and praying to know God was taking care of us all. He did..it missed our complex…skipped around town tearing up old Maples, Oaks and Elders but their roots and toppling them all over… but no houses were hit….. that I know of.. trees all over in yards missing houses by inches……….. so things been a bit wow here…so thankful for no injuries. A huge barn used for weddings and feasts…. had twelve in there when it hit and they scampered to the basement..and the entire barn collapsed on them.. none hurt. Only one horse was taken in the storm..a champion barrel racer……. So I join you in Thanksgiving too… Love to you all Merri
Wow Merri! Thank God you are OK. I couldn’t imagine going through a tornado in an apartment building. I worry about this old farmhouse, but at least I have a basement. It’s funny we didn’t hear anything about all those tornadoes. The Toronto news often talks about the big storms down there. We’ve got our fingers crossed this new hurricane doesn’t bring any more rain. Colin figures we need about a month of sunshine to get the beans done/started.
So good they were able to get him to Ottawa ASAP. We are so lucky to have a world class heart institute so close to us. Heart surgery is so commonplace now. I see the big difference between the procedures my father received and then my brother 20 years later, it’s a big step forward.