THANKSGIVING DINNER IN PORTLAND REPORT
Vegan that I am, for the main course I partook of mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, homemade cranberry relish, and 2 freshly made, yeasty biscuits. Dinner plates then removed, the festive table was arrayed with desserts: 2 pumpkin pies, a blueberry-pear pie with crumble top, a pomegranate/cranberry tart, and a huge bowl of fresh whipped cream. Joe and I made our traditional gingerbread cookies, frosted with everyone's name in white. I allowed myself one of those, but nothing else. Was not easy! But I did managed somehow! Nor, when Mary and I got home from her brother's house where the feast was held, did I sneak any of the leftover goodies Mary brought home with her. In summation: I survived Thanksgiving without whooshing downhill. Afterland is not for the faint of heart. How did your Thanksgivings go?

F*** grocery stores and their in-your-face pumpkin pie displays! 

Thanksgiving is a week away. So far no pumpkin pie. But piles of them are in your face when you walk into any grocery store and the pull is there. On the bright side, I'm loving my new-to-me $1 pair of bright turquoise corduroy skinny Joe Jeans!

Veterans' Day

Thinking of DAD!

ANOTHER GOAL

Where any one of us could actually wear that thong!

                                                        2012 PRIZE WINNER

Just now, all of a sudden, I remembered when I began slipping after Mom's 90th: Thanksgiving time 2012. Pumpkin pie before Thanksgiving. Pumpkin pie ON Thanksgiving. Pumpkin pie after Thanksgiving. As you all know, I don't mean a simple slice. So I believe it's a good thing this memory has popped, uninvited, into my head today. The take-away message for me: Take care. Thanksgiving with all its goodies approaches. Keep my eye on the greater prize that lies beyond the momentary comfort of pumpkin pie.

How are all of you doing?