WMM is already planning for Thanksgiving dinner. Yesterday, she made the filling for pumpkin pies.
We have both a turkey and a ham in the freezer and she plans to cook both. Who knows how many will come to eat! We could be by ourselves or have a housefull. She has issued "drop by for dinner if you can" invitations to about 20 people.
I know grandson Chris, age 12, will be here. He furnished both the turkey and the ham. Last year he furnished the turkey, but I think we bought the ham. Chris is an excellent shot and wins turkey, ham, sausage, and sometimes even pork chops at the local turkey shoot. One of the local civic clubs does it as a fund raiser and Chris and his father have been going since he was about eight. They don't shoot the turkeys. They use paper targets with a cross-hair in the middle. The closest shot to the cross-hair wins. He got the turkey(already frozen) with a dead center shot, and the one that won the ham was less than a millimeter off center. He uses a 12 gauge single barrel shotgun. When he first started going to the shoots, he used a 20 gauge, because it had less recoil, but soon realized that the 12 gave him more pellets in the target and a better chance at winning. Still, he was the first 8-year-old winner using the 20. His first win caused considerable excitement because he was competing with men closer to my age. Now they take it in stride. I suppose all this explains why Thanksgiving is a big holiday at our house.
Howard