Thanksgiving on the Farm

We had a very relaxing Thanksgiving celebration here today. With the trip to NJ for the wedding on Sunday, then back to work through Wednesday, we needed a break. Matt went to pick up hay to get us through to tomorrow, when we have to get a load that, hopefully, will last a week. Thankfully Farmer Simmonds is only a half mile away. I cooked all morning and made Mattie a fabulous meal. My homemade cranberry sauce and yam/marshmallow casserole was delicious. I wish AJ was here to eat his favorite yam dish. He and Mia were with their father in NJ. We collapsed on the sofa for a while with the History channel on. It's the only channel, besides the evening news, that we always agree on. Tonight they are showing "The True Story of the Mayflower." I just read an article about how the French Calvinists had a settlement in Florida that predated the Jamestown settlement by quite a few years. The Spanish massacred them and their story was lost when the English wrote them out of history. They gave Jamestown the credit for being the first settlement in America. Very interesting, how Anglo-centric our history is. Right now Matt is watching the story of the Sherman tank, and the Allied advance across Europe. He is very animated about this era of history, as his uncle followed Patton around over there during WWII. When they showed a group of dejected German prisoners Matt yelled TOUGH SH*T!! and so on and so forth. If they had Matt over there the war would have been over much sooner.