I definitely wanted to have my family around for Thanksgiving. so, I invited everyone out and we planned a family get together out here for an early Turkey dinner on Sunday.
So I got busy clearing the clutter out of my dining room. Bought an 18-pound turkey and cranberry sauce etc. etc...
Friday afternoon I felt like I was close to being ready for the big family dinner, things were coming together. I was double checking my todo list while eating dinner around 5:30 pm on Friday night when suddenly the power went out. Now we have had power outages out here in the past and they never last too long. A half an hour to an hour at most so I finished my dinner and made an attempt at doing the dishes, but with an electric water pressure pump that did not go that well as the water pressure faded on me.
So I dug out my iPhone and started playing solitaire. That kept me entertained for a while, but by 9:00 pm, it was starting to get a little cool, so I decided to go to bed. "Surely the power will be back on by morning." and I will still have time to prep my turkey, make my jellied salad and set the dining room up for Sunday.
I slept right through until 8:00 am, but as I awoke I sensed that nothing had changed. I had not turned any of the light switches off, so if the power was on the lights would be back on, plus I was feeling quite cool, even under the covers.
So, it was time to find out what was going on. My landline was not working and I had killed my cell phone playing solitaire last night, so I headed for the convenience store, to use the phone and call hydro. As I was pulling out of my driveway I could see why I had no power. There was a tree from a yard on the north side of our lane. broken and had fallen across the lane and taken out the power lines on the south side of the lane. The convenience store did not prove to be much help. They were able to loan me a phone but as I asked if anyone knew the number for hydro, all the guys hanging around having coffee just laughed and of course they were right all I got was a busy signal. Not wanting to go back to our cold dark house, Sea-Enna and I decided to head for the city.
When I got to Tracy's, I started emailing all of the invitees for suggestions on how we should proceed. Should we cancel till next weekend? The turkey is thawed and in my fridge. Now that it's thawed shouldn't it be cooked? Sea-Enna and I also need a place to stay, because we don't want to go back to that cold dark house. Who knows how long this outage will last? So, the decision was made, I would drive back to the beach, pick up the turkey and all my contributions to the dinner and come and stay at Jim's till??? And we would have the thanksgiving at his place and deal with the rest when we had to. And so, our thanksgiving went off without a hitch. My children were all there except Ken. Plus all of my grandchildren that could make it. (Glad I got a chance to see Dayne and Jessica last month.)
Everyone contributed to dinner, hor's d oeuvres and dessert which were all delicious. And we all had a wonderful visit, and it turns out my daughter Wendy is going to take her terminally ill sister Tracy Elizabeth on a Caribbean Cruise on November 8th. Tracy is so excited. What a wonderful gift.
Boyd Halliwell, help me out by letting me know when my hydro was back on, on Monday so I was able to head back home. So, all in all, it was:
A WONDERFUL THANKSGIVING
