🦃🧡 Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃
May your table be surrounded by those that you love. Here’s to family that you can call friends and to friends that you can call family.
{American actress Jeanne Crain and her husband Paul Brinkman cooking a large turkey at home | 1955 | Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}
🦃🥧 Gobble! Gobble! 🥧🦃
Happy Thanksgiving!! I hope this year finds your table bountiful and the seats around it filled with those that you cherish.
Love, light and peace. x
{Ann Blyth offering ‘Thanksgiving Greetings To All’ | Universal portrait |1951 | Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}
Hello, November! We’re ready for the many autumn strolls you will bring us with leaves crunching underfoot and hot cups of coffee in our hands. We’re ready for our house to smell of apples, cinnamon and cloves as we begin our annual process of cooking and canning apple butter to use for the months ahead on oatmeal, toast, cakes and warmed over vanilla ice cream.
We’re ready for candlelit evenings as darkness closes in, lingering at the dinner table while a record plays. We’re ready for gingerbread, hot apple cider and crispy sausages eaten with the smell of woodsmoke in the air. We’re ready for the Thanksgiving feast you will herald in at the end of the month and the turkey, stuffing and gravy sandwiches that are sure to follow.
We’re ready to move more fully into autumn and the stillness that you bring as we watch one season slowly begin to slip into the next. Welcome November, we’re ready for all that you hold for us.
🦃 Gobble! Gobble! 🦃
The Happiest of Thanksgiving wishes to you!
I hope this year finds you surrounded by family and friends, love, warmth, good food and laughter. x
{Vintage Thanksgiving Post Card | Pinned HERE}
Hello, November. We’re ready for the days to fully turn cooler as we move into late autumn. We’re ready for long walks with mugs filled with hot apple cider. We’re ready to continue playing our board games late into a Saturday night, or a quiet afternoon spent working on a puzzle.
We’re ready for Bonfire Night that you will bring this weekend and making our first apple crumble of the season with a generous scoop of homemade ice cream on top.
We’re ready to settle into this season of coziness and candlelight and the build up to Thanksgiving. We’re ready to feast on leftover turkey sandwiches and decorate for Christmas near the end of this month.
We’re ready for the smell of woodsmoke in the air on a crisp night, mixed with the scent of a stew simmering on the stove, while fresh bread bakes in the oven.
We’re ready to soak up this season and to find peace in the quiet moments, for the world right now is far too loud. We welcome you, November with open arms.
{Vintage Turkey Illustration found HERE via The Biodiversity Heritage Library | Pinned HERE}
🦃🍁 Happy Thanksgiving! 🍁🦃
May your table be bountiful and may the seats around it be filled with those that you love.
(Vera Ellen, Thanksgiving Pin-up, c. 1950s | Pinned HERE}
🦃 Gobble! Gobble! 🦃
Happy Thanksgiving! I hope this year finds you surrounded by family and friends, love, warmth, good food and laughter. x
{Vintage Thanksgiving Post Card pinned HERE}
It’s Friday. The sun is glowing and the air is nippy. The shadows have been changing throughout the house on a daily basis. As I write this now a golden hued beam is dancing across the floor towards my feet. Two week ago at this time, that beam would have been in a different place. It feels like a beautiful autumn day, the kind of day my parents would pack up the car with a picnic and take us up to the mountains to feast and hike.
Christmas music is playing. It’s been playing since November 1st! The house is clean and ready for the weekend to begin. I’m working on a final plan of attack for Thanksgiving, so I can ensure that the bread I’ll use for stuffing and the loaf we’ll use for sandwiches and the pumpkin pie are all baked on time. I’m also working on a final grocery store list for the week ahead to ensure I have all the little odds and ends I need.
Thanksgiving will look very different for many this year. It will be as it has always been for us. It’s just us around our Thanksgiving table. Because of school schedules we have yet to be able to celebrate Thanksgiving with our family overseas. But, one year that just might happen!
This year has found me very quiet in this little place of mine. I have felt at times that I did not have a voice. I’ve still been working on my own writing projects, but this has not been a place that I’ve wanted to come to. I’m not truly sure why? The time I have been spending here has been with the help of Mr. Michie, who has aided me in making changes to the overall visual look of my blog. It’s been awhile since I have written code, so this project was a good refresher! There are still a few things left to tick off the list before I get it close to how I would like it. It is a very different, more streamlined look for me and I have enjoyed that, although it was a hard design decision to come to. I narrowed it down in the end and decided what would work best for me.
Our days are moving one into the next. Life is still happening in the midst of all the chaos. There are lots of games of Scrabble being played and books being read and albums being listened too. There has been a steady rhythm that we have continued to beat out through this storm we are all weathering. And that rhythm will continue to carry us through.
I hope wherever you are today that my ramblings find you safe and well.
{Cranberries, Andrew Wyeth, 1966}
Hello, November! We’re ready for crisper days; crunchy apples and pumpkin filled pies, cakes and breads. We’re ready for sizzling sausages with caramelised onions and toffee cake, with oodles of whipped cream on Bonfire Night. We’re ready for candlelight filled evenings as the night draws in.
We’re ready for quiet Saturday afternoons, spent reading while a stew simmers on the stove. We’re ready for Vince Guaraldi spinning on the record player while we play scrabble with hot apple cider in hand.
We’re ready for Thanksgiving and gobbling down turkey, stuffing, sweet potato casserole and cranberry sauce. We’re ready for the happiness that Thanksgiving leftovers bring us while feasting on turkey sandwiches and watching old movies.
We’re ready for all that you bring.
