Thanksgiving 2024

And here we are. It’s Thanksgiving.

I will start cooking my part of our meal in an hour. Dinner will be around 4 at my younger son’s house, and I’ll go over early afternoon. My cooking part will be roasted Brussel sprouts and a platter of garlicky roasted carrots and sweet peppers. I’ll bring the green salad ready to assemble. Bryan is going to cook the turkey on his fancy wood chip grill that smokes things. There will be also mashed potatoes with raw butter. And pies for dessert, to include the family chocolate chess pie which is super rich and which I can’t eat due to the gluten in the pie shell. (Yes, that is sad, but life is messy, isn’t it?)

It is overcast and hopefully it will rain as it is very very dry. So likely, there will not be a walk on the beach today.

I went to Whole Foods to get the organic veggies, and the Christmas trees are in place.

I stood for a moment or two and inhaled the smell of green fir trees–which I do miss here in South Carolina. Hiking in the Maine woods was always filled with this wonderful scent. But here the tall pines sway over the woods. They are long-needled and quite spectacular.

I also bought a butternut squash for one of my favorite dishes, which is to roast skinned chunks with fresh rosemary, garlic, salt, and good olive oil.

The ” Pot Pourri 5: Crosses” quilt is off the design wall and ready to go on the longarm. The backing I ordered (also Ruby Star Society) is adorable. It’s washed and ready to be ironed and organized.

AND!!! Ta da!! Here’s this month’s work from my online Blocks 2 class with Tara Faughnan. I could have gone on and on, but…

I hung the grey piece in the front hall next to the alarm system box. My walls are a soft grey. The rest are all installed on stretched canvas frames.

I’ll hang the big blue one in my quilt room. But the rest will be gifts. I’ve really enjoyed learning how to wrap a block around stretched canvas and am pleased with the outcome.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!