A past Thanksgiving
This was the one year since the beach urchins were born that we had NOBODY coming home for tday and no other guests. Just the two of us. Mouse was in Dakar for study abroad and Lizard was living out in San Francisco. I’ve never understood Thanksgiving travel that involves planes. It’s such a short holiday. Why go through all that airport pain? They agreed with me and anyway, you don’t just fly home from Africa for Thanksgiving unless you own a private jet. Lizard spent the holiday with her family of friends in California, and it was probably a regular day in Dakar.
Anyway, we packed up the smallest turkey I could find and all its friends and took off for Hoton Lake for the weekend. This was also the year (2007) I started working for my current employer. I was a student intern at that time and only worked a day and a half each week so we were able to leave Wednesday morning (the GG was still working but had tons of PTO). Soon after this, my employer approached me with a full-time job offer and it wasn’t an easy decision to leave my carefree lifestyle (which also included community college web design/dev courses just to keep me on my toes). The job obviously worked out well but that’s a topic for some other day. Or not.
We’ve had snow for the last two days. Just a sniggly bit of snow, slowly but persistently flurrying down. The northern Great Lake State? Lemme see, has Sault Ste. Siberia had two or three feet? And it is still coming down. I get weather alerts for that area since it’s my hometown and I am still a property owner in the area. The local authorities are pleading with people to stay off the roads so they can quickly and efficiently plow them. And then plow them again. Ad infinitum ad nauseam. They do have heavy duty snow removal equipment up there and they are ON IT PDQ. Sometimes here on The Planet Ann Arbor it takes a few days before our street gets plowed.
I’ve personally seen snow in the yooperland in every month except July and August and it is NOT early for an extreme snowstorm there. Or even here although that’s not what we have been getting.
December 1st, 2024 at 11:49 pm
It’s been rare to have both daughters home for Thanksgiving because, as you noted, it’s a short holiday and travel is excruciating. It was rough the year that Alison was in South Korea and Ashley was in Senegal. I would like to at least be on the same continent!