Merry Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving went well for us.  Vanessa hosted this year, since she has moved to Covington and has the big farm house.  So Vanessa was the one that had to stay up late and get up early to get the meal prepared.  Becky made a pumpkin pie and a cherry pie – so she still did some cooking. Chelsea and Dan could not make it, they were both sick with some sort of bug. We did pick up Annabelle so that she could see her cousins and Chelsea did look pretty rough.

Chelsea has some time off this weekend and she gets sick – go figure the luck. She said that she is supposed to go to 2^nd shift.  Which I prefer since there are too many stories about people falling asleep at the wheel on the way home from work and wrecking from working 3^rd shift.  Chad and Sarah had to leave early as they were going up to Michigan for the rest of the weekend to see Sarah’s relatives that live around Ann Arbor.  I am watching their critters for them.  Their outside dog does not like me one bit.  Fortunately he is chained – but I wear thick clothing that he can’t bite through in case he decides to make a go of it when I feed him.

On the plus side I get to keep the eggs when I feed the chickens.  11 of ‘em the first day. So that is an extra dividend that I wasn’t expecting.  I did not realize that they had so many chickens.  Talked with Vanessa after everyone had gone.  She said that even though she makes less money right now, that they are ahead of where they were at in Louisville.  Childcare is a lot cheaper for one.  And the house they rent is still cheaper than the apartment. So it sounds like the move was a positive.  Oh, and she says she now knows more about combines that she ever thought that she would.

Apparently you never want your combine to get rocked – that is it picks up a rock and it tries to go thru the combine – tearing up everything along the way.  They had one repair bill that was for over $28k.  An expensive rock that one. Both Vanessa and Eric worked on black Friday, so we watched the kids for them since the sitter was not available.  The girls helped me with some of my chores.  A good time all in all. Oh and Thanksgiving must not have been traumatic. Vanessa is thinking of hosting Christmas.

Covered the North and South girls basketball teams last night at Northridge.  They were in a tip off tournament.  North looked better than South.  But I don’t see either team doing very well this season.  I guess that North was down 2 starters due to illness and injury, so that might have been a factor – but from what I can see they will have a long season.  And South has more players this season, but still not much experience.  Their road will be even longer.  Next week the boys start up. South has no height this year, but good guards.  North does not return much. We cover Dixie and they are in the same boat as North – not returning much talent.