More Pictures from Thanksgiving at Grandma's and Grandpa's

So, took some pictures at Grandma & Grandpa's house at Thanksgiving...

Here is Grandma and Grandpa's FAVORITE child, Daisy.


Daisy and Grandpa doing what they do best.


Thanksgiving breakfast with the family.


More of the same


Still more..


Even more...


You can guess who got the ham scraps...

Indiana

So, after leaving Omaha on Saturday morning, we went to Janey's Cousin's house in Indiana, where we found a party still in full swing! Some relatives were over from Chicago and they were ooing and aahhing over some cloth rolls. Turns out that they have a contact in a Fabric mill that makes denim and kakhi for Levis and Tommy Pullmyfinger (Hillfiger). They had rolls of the stuff. So, we ended up with rolls of the stuff. Tanks goodness we took the truck. We brought back with us 6 rolls of denim and corduroy and lots of cut kakhi material. Some will be made into futon covers (For when we use the futons as couches) and some will be made into clothes. We hung out and had dinner on Sat night. We stayed up until all hours talking. Sunday morning, we had breakfast and then lunch, talking about gardening the whole time. Janey's cousin Roger likes to garden. We have had tomato soup base made from tomatoes out of their garden, apple bread, made from apples off of their trees. Pecans from their trees. Melons from their garden. You name it, they either grow it or have tried to grow it. Now we have catalogs of trees and fruits and vegitables all from seed or as 3-5' tall trees.

It was just a 3.5 hour drive back from Indiana to home in Ohio, so we did that sunday afternoon. Very nice weekend.

p.s. We found out later that Saturday afternnon it started to snow in Omaha. Looks like we left at the right time.

and back again...

Never finished my story about Turkeyday weekend. So, we hung out at Grandma and Grandpa's house on Wednesday afternoon. We chatted and looked at pictures, both on the laptop and in albums. We started prepairing the Ham for thursday breakfast. We played with Grandma and Grandpa's new dog. Daisey is a beagle mix (Grandma thinks the other part is wippet, but hard to tell) that loves to smell things. Problem is, when she stands on her hind-legs, she can stick her nose up on the table, while we were eating.

So, Thursday... Uncle Phil & Aunt Corey & David & Megan came up from Lincoln, NE for breakfast, and Aunt Karen & Uncle Charlie came over as well. He had that 12lb ham along with eggs and waffles for breakfast. We hung out for a few hours looking at pictures again (both on the laptop and in albums...) and generally caught up. Being that I grew up in California and only got to see this part of the family on the occasional summer and holiday, I am enjoying that they are now just a day's drive away...

Thursday afternnon. Phil, Corey, David and Megan went to Corey's family's farm for Turkey, and Karen & Charlie went home to cook the turkay for our feast. Grandma. Grandpa, Janey and I went over to Karen & Charlies later in the day. We ate until we made the chairs creak. Around midnight we went back to Grandma and Grandpa's house.

Friday we just hung out and chatted most of the day. I helped Grandpa empty the gas out of his lawn mower and prepare the snow blower for winter. We replaced the spark plug and mixed up some 2-stroke gas and made sure it would start. We watched Nebraska loose their final game of the season. (boo)

Saturday, we had breakfast with Grandma and Grandpa, then we drove to Indiana.