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    We are so pitiful!  It's Thanksgiving and as you may know, as the kids get older, they tend to go elsewhere for Thanksgiving.  As three of us sat around the Tanksgiving feast Stacy had prepared,  turkey, mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli chesse casserole and green bean caserole, pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake and pumpkin roll, we were reminded of just how pitiful yet delicious our existence is. 

     We had decided that we might want to help others this Thanksgiving and volunteer at the mission, but alas, they were staffed and didn't need us around spreading our holiday indifference.  So, we decided that our herd of animals might want a fun Thanksgiving, so it was off to the dog run.  The lizards didn't want to go, the cat, being 142 years old in cat years, wasn't up for for the possibility of breaking a hip, Carleigh's hamster felt he was too far down the food chain to survive, so it was just us and the dogs. 

     Upon returning home at sunset, IT WAS TIME TO EAT AGAIN!!!  So, turkey sandwiches, reconstituted mashed potatoes and all the rest were set before us again for the evening feast.  We finished up the turkey, feeling lucky we even had one this year as Dakota, my boxer, fetched the frozen Dolly Parton sized turkey breast from the sink where it was thawing last year and proceeded to eat what she could down in the dog run and was trying to bury the rest.  Needless to say, I was cleaning up mudding dog prints that evening and in the morning I was cleaning up semi digested turkey that her body rejected. 

     I guess all in all, we are giving thanks again this year for  having our health, not being totally destitute and knowing that things can only get better.  I'm not having so many dizzy spells, Stacy starts a new job this week, and best of all, Christmas shopping will be easy this year as we will be able to do it all in the Dollar store because the company who bought my radio station doesn't contribute to the cost of health insurance so Blue Cross, Blue Shield of Georgia get most of my paycheck so their families can make their BMW payments.

     I love this time of the year!