By Arnold Krusemark Here it is half way through November already. Two big things occur in November. Maybe three. First the garden needs to be closed for the year. Then, there is Thanksgiving.
In years past we remember Thanksgiving starting as a big family get together for the Thanksgiving Day feast. These days turkey is rather expected to be the main meat. We did not have turkey in this writer’s earliest years. We had the farm and were to supply the meat for the family dinner. Since money was in short supply (for everybody we thought) the meat had to be something we raised or hunted. This apparently meant we might have a ham, or beef roast, or a big rooster. The chicken was cleaned and stuffed like any big bird so we had the stuffing to eat as well as the meat. We also had a good selection of vegetables. And then there was desert - always pie as we recall. That time we got two pieces of pie - one for noon dinner and the second for going away food whenever guests left. Any meat left over kept us going until it was gone. Remember in earliest days we did not have electricity in rural areas. When we finally did, and then got a refrigerator and later a freezer, the leftovers could sometimes be frozen and used again. It wouldn’t be the first time we got meat (one time a supermarket had a last minute special on turkeys). Then we got invited out. Then we had guests Friday, Saturday, and Sunday that year.
One year a club I belong to had a turkey for the Tuesday night meeting. (precooked from the local supermarket). Then Mother brought the turkey home, we finished cooking it and then had guests nightly again.
Lately with minimal family we’ve gone to an area restaurant with a neighbor or two for their feast. Then Friday. One year we went to the Twin Cities to see what we could. Dayton’s had their Christmas auditorium special. Along with some items on sale. We brought home a pair of binoculars as my early Christmas present. Black Friday Specials seem to the annual event nowadays.
Then December.
Be sure to care for your house plants too. Until next week.
