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Yes, I'm a couple of days late in posting about our Thanksgiving gathering.
(Even though when Tom said "And I suppose we'll see these pictures
on the Internet" and I replied "Yes, of course.")
Naturally, before we can sit down to a huge feast, we have to have various
foods to prime our appetites... veggies and chips and dips and cheese and
breads... |
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And here is our hostess -- Nancy's sister Sue.
Just as last year, Sue
invited everyone to her house (in Connecticut).
As long-time readers of this site are aware, Nancy is from a family of
ten -- add in spouses and children and grandchildren -- and even if everyone
can't get together every year, it still adds up to a considerable number
of people (generally around forty or so). |
(On years when we have gathered everyone in Rhode Island, we have generally
had a Thanksgiving Eve get-together at our house
and have held Thanksgiving dinner itself in
a borrowed parish hall.)
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After dinner there was time for more convivial conversations...
for brothers and sisters and in-laws and nieces, nephews, and cousins to chat. |
| And time for a walk around the neighborhood in order to be able to appreciate
the array of desserts: pumpkin pies and apple pies and cherry pies and
cakes and cookies and donuts and banana bread and apple-cranberry crisp.
(And, after this picture was taken, a birthday cake was brought out because
a 17th birthday was also being celebrated.) |
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(Note: Jill upheld family tradition by running the Newport Pie Run -- she
ran the five miles in 43:33, which is an 8:43 per mile pace, not bad at
all considering she had not been doing any real training for it, just going
out a couple times a week for two miles or so. Eli also ran the race, although
he is a hiker and a rock wall climber, not a runner. Well done!)
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