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