Dear Family Members

John's Tree

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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
We had "grilled turkey". Except the grill was a lot hotter than I thought. It cooked in 2-1/2 hours and was falling off the bone. Wonderful!! I would recommend it. I used two aluminum roasting pans and covered tightly with heavy duty tin foil. It still took up a lot of the hickory/charcoal seasoning. I did brine it before, and salted the turkey before--drippings were too salty. If you brine (which I recommend), don't add any other salt.

Deer Hunting
James missed a deer today. John missed twice on opening day. Other than that, we haven't seen very many deer. Tomorrow is last day of firearm deer. We do have muzzleloader deer in Dec. The state restricted feeding (baiting) of deer because of chronic wasting disease (mad cow disease). We are hoping no more infected deer are found and we can put out a little pile of corn next year. Only one farm-raised deer in southern Michigan was found with the disease.

Work
Worked today (Sat.). It was my best Saturday for awhile. Everyone was ready to leave at 5 pm. I helped some people with stuff they needed to do. One guy came in and needed to type up a paper. Both word processing computers were busy, so I set him up on google docs. He wasn't too familiar with using online services, but we got his paper typed and printed out fine. I wanted to ask him where he'd been the last 10 years (while everyone else was learning to use the web), but I didn't.

Til next time, Katherine

Wow! It's been a long time

So much has been going on that I haven't blogged since the end of September. There's a place here called Dahlia Hill because a bunch of people have gotten together to plant dahlias there every year. Here are some photos at Flickr: .

The auto racing seasons are wrapping up. We watched Felipe Massa win his home Brazilian Gran Prix today. However, his competitor Lewis Hamilton, UK, is now the youngest driver's champion. The race was tight right down to the last lap, Lewis had to finish sixth or worse to tie Massa. Lewis passed Timo Glock in the last turn of the last lap to gain the fifth position.

Two more races in the NASCAR schedule, but it looks like Jimmie Johnson may have it wrapped up before the last race at Homestead on Nov 14.