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As usual, begin with weather … High temp yesterday … a comfy 66 degrees … a brief shower … more like a sprinkle … Last night, temp dipped to 44. Today (Wednesday), mostly sunny with a high near 67. Tonight, mostly cloudy with a low around 53…

Thanksgiving Day … A chance of showers. Mostly cloudy with a high near 74 … windy, gusts as high as 20 mph and a 50% chance of rain…
Tonight … A chance of showers … Mostly cloudy with a low around 44 … Winds light and variable … and a 50% chance of rain…

Beginning Friday, and for the next 3 or 4 days … Mostly sunny … high temp in the 50s til Monday … High Monday 45 and Tuesday 47 … Bundle up…

Church services, family gathering and feasts galore…

As I grow older … I often think of holidays from long, long ago … (I know … here he goes again) … Well, they were different … In my early days we all loaded up in a mule and wagon and off to granny’s house … Uncle and Aunts and grandma and grandpa and cousins, all there … Play hard early … eat lunch, a great lunch … sometimes prepared by the females after we arrived, but more often, everyone would bring food … great food, lots of food, pots of food … turkey, ham and all that goes with it … and cakes and pies … Can see it now…

My granddaddy Hester was a good man, a praying man … After he prayed it was a sight-to-behold … Moms helping youngsters “fix” their plates … I miss the family, the food, everything…and everybody…All the older folks deceased … but I can nearly see them … Wish all could have been there, just one time…

There were no paper plates … no, no … everyone had a plate, a real plate…

Today … not bad … too many times we just go thru the motion … Gotta get back to work tomorrow … not bad, just different…

Sometimes we visited lower Bladen, our other sets of kin were in that area … Same good food … but a long ride over a beaten up road system … Roadways 41 and 53 were unpaved and a few drops of rain could cause issues … Still good … just different folks and a longer ride … and an old jalopy for transportation … too far for a mule and wagon…

Sorry … just sharing…

“I can’t cook a Thanksgiving dinner. All I can make is cold cereal, maybe toast.” Charlie Brown

“The more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.” Norman Vincent Peele

“Let’s give’em pumpkin to talk about.”

robert g hester
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