The Year The Wind Took The Turkey

Thanksgiving morning... a beautiful sunrise...

and a lost turkey.

Now, before your heart starts anxiously pounding,

in fear for our dear Tom and Fred...

let me allay your worries and tell you that neither of them are the turkey

about which the title speaks.

Phew!

That's a relief!

No, the turkey that was taken by the wind is now buried deep within the 

compost pile.

I mentioned earlier in the week our plans for our Thanksgiving

(Black Friday) feast.

I mentioned that we were having tacos...

the meat for those tacos being spicy roast turkey, pork carnitas, and shrimp.

Well... I had decided on Wednesday night to put the meats (not the shrimp)

in my two crock pots and cook them slowly overnight.

Actually, the pork would cook slowly for 24 hours...

the turkey, overnight.

We had a fierce (really fierce, trees down) windstorm on Wednesday night

into Thursday morning, and had several brown-outs during the night as we slept.

Sadly, the turkey was in a digital crockpot, so when the power went out,

the crockpot turned off... and stayed off all night.

Luckily, the pork was in a crockpot that came right back on again.

Not wanting to risk infecting my family with salmonella,

the turkey went to the compost pile in the morning.

After morning chores,

and a scavenger hunt for the trash cans that had blown away during the night,

(looking back from where the trash can had blown to our farm...)

Hubbs went out in search of plan B.

(another turkey, or even a couple of whole chickens)

From now on, I will always have a plan B in mind!

I stayed home and finished the baking and continued the cooking.

We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with our neighbors...

our yearly tradition.

And I had a sleeping puppy on my boot.

The chickens gifted us with 15 eggs!!

And the ducks layed two as well.

This morning, I will do the last of the cooking as the house

fills with family.

We'll laugh, and eat, and play, and go for lots of "GoGo" rides.

And though our tradition may not look like others'...

it will be the perfect day, 

surrounded by the people I love...

and I can't ask for anything better than that!