The Thanksgiving holiday from work has been a welcome break. Thanksgiving dinner was quite good and celebrated with my aunt and uncle, Jim and Neile, their friend John, and my friend Jeff. We had a free range turkey with issues this year. First of all, it still had feathers. I don't know if this is normal for turkeys because I generally like to stay as far away as possible from anything resembling the actual animal I am eating. But I saw them. And it was weird. They were on the inside of one wing. Just a few, but enough to weird me out. Then more were discovered on the inside of the other wing a few minutes later. After that I stayed out of the kitchen mildly obsessing over the situation and talking myself into eating the turkey despite the feathers. There was an amusing sight when dinner was through and I had worked up the courage to be in the kitchen with the turkey. Neile was literally arm wrestling the turkey. She was attempting to break the turkey down for leftovers and she could not get the wings off. I wish I had my camera. There were several jokes about the turkey being allowed to range too far, but am horrible at retelling jokes so I will leave that one alone.
The break has given me the energy to remain faithful to 
my handmade holiday pledge. Yesterday I made an engineer's cap from Readymade and a bird ornament from Last Minute Patchwork and Knitted Gifts. And finally, the break has given me more time to spend with my sugar gliders. They were very photogenic today.
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