Sunday Snippets 11.19.23
It’s been warmer this past week. But I saw that it’s going to be freezing in a couple of days.
Can you believe I thought Thanksgiving was well over a week away?
I was reading a blog friend’s post yesterday and she mentioned Thanksgiving being this week. And I thought: no, isn’t it a week after?
Then I looked and of course I was wrong.
I think of Thanksgiving being the week of Kendra’s birthday (28th) because I had her on Thanksgiving day. But it’s earlier this year.
For Kasi’s 45th birthday this past week, I ordered chocolates and a Hickory Farm’s sampler for her.
She works at home, so I knew this would be a fast way to snack through the day. Kasi told me that she and Andrew have been eating the chocolates, so I’m glad they’ve enjoyed them.
When the girls were at home I made all kinds of candy during the holiday season. But I haven’t done that in years.
Boomer:
Yesterday when Greg came through the patio door Boomer followed him in.
Boomer knows where I keep his favorite soft treats.
Greg went to the jar to give them to him. Boomer gets two treats I told him. So Boomer gobbled up his goodies and Greg let him out to go find John.
It’s kind of like a zoo around here with Kinzi coming in for the small dog treats and Boomer getting the bigger ones!
Ivy barely pays any attention to them. She knows she’s the queen.
Ivy:
And of course here’s a photo I took of Ivy. She sure has funny ways of sleeping on the couch. It looks uncomfortable to me.
What I Watched:
If you can watch “Payback” I think you might like it. That is if you like fast-paced thrillers. I streamed the whole last week.
And then I watched Halifax: Retribution. It is about Jane Halifax, female forensic psychologist who is a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at Melbourne University.
The police in Melbourne get her involved in their looking for a sniper.
The shooter seems to have no rhyme or reason behind who or where he starts shooting. So they bring her in to try to figure out his next moves.
What I’m Reading:
I’ve begun reading “The Boys From Biloxi” by John Grisham. I always find his story lines compelling.
Book Summary:
John Grisham returns to Mississippi with the riveting story of two sons of immigrant families who grow up as friends, but ultimately find themselves on opposite sides of the law.
For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings.
The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia.
Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends, as well as Little League all-stars. But as teenagers, their lives took them in different directions.
Keith’s father became a legendary prosecutor, determined to “clean up the Coast.” Hugh’s father became the “Boss” of Biloxi’s criminal underground. Keith went to law school and followed in his father’s footsteps.
Ivy is the cutest! If I slept in that position, I probably wouldn’t be able to move to get myself out of bed, lol. And I love how she “tolerates” the doggies that come for a visit. It does seem like the holidays are creeping up fast. I can’t believe Christmas is right around the corner. I’m hosting Thanksgiving this year, so we’ll have about 15 people, so as you can imagine, I’ve been quite busy. Thankfully, my sister came early to help me with everything. I really enjoy your Sunday Snippets. How it’s Kendra doing? Is she feeling any better?
No one will ever accuse you of under-feeding Ivy!
For the grandchildren on the opposite shore, I have finally ordered a few things. Giving thanks always comes last. We will thus just schedule pasta for supper as we can still prepare it on a gas stovetop.
Well, when we get busy and our minds are focused elsewhere, tis easy to not realize when a certain holiday is falling any given year. Yep, me too this year…a couple days ago I just realized that we are early this year. But being it will just be us and our daughter, and we all agree to do as easy as can be, it will be ok. Worst yet, I finally ordered a couple items for the grandkids on the other coast…and 1 item is not to arrive until Dec 24th…and we all know those dates are estimates. (Via Amazon). Good grief, I thought I had a few more days to order gifts!!
Thanksgiving always falls on the fourth Thursday in November.
So, given that there are five weeks in November, the holiday can sometimes arrive as early as November 22, or as late as November 28.
In 2023, Thanksgiving Day is on Thursday, November 23.
Not sure if it is due to my age but the holiday season is coming in like a fast freight train coming to town. One day it’s October 1st then it’s Thanksgiving and we all
know what follows!
We are being taunted with the possibility of fire and high winds and power outages for Thanksgiving again! So just going to plan on pasta for dinner as we can still cook on the gas stove top. Just no baking.
Unlike last November, we haven’t had a lot of rain this month. We had a few days where the noon time temperature got up to 60 or just above, and the Sun has been out all week, but the temperature has dropped down to about normal for this time of year, and I’ve been waking up to frozen over bird baths and drinking pans that I put down lower for the squirrels and other critters. I’m tired of sucking up leaves with the lawnmower and/or raking. We had a late leaf shed this year, and because there is no snow in the long-term forecast, the city extended leaf pick-up to December 1 from November 15. The city has come through twice to sweep up leaves homeowners piled up in the streets, but they need to come through at least once more and nobody knows what day that might be. My problem is that the winds in this subdivision seem to circle the most around MY house, and I end up with just about everybody else’s leaves in my yard. But maybe every homeowner feels that way, ha! I’ve got sore shoulders and neck from 2 days of pushing the mower around with the bagging attachment on it to suck up leaves that blow right back on the lawn when I empty the bag out and make piles in the road. This morning I cleaned up what seemed like a ton of leaves that had accumulated behind my garage from neighboring trees, but since that is on concrete I used my broom, dustpan and a laundry basket that I stomped the leaves down into until I couldn’t flatten them out any more and then lugged the surprisingly heavy filled basket out to the road to dump the contents. Today is relatively calm, for which I am grateful. This week is major house cleaning and getting the Christmas tree up, if not decorated, by Thanksgiving Day. I too was surprised it’s on 11/23 this year, I thought I had an extra week to do all that needs to be done inside. Been too busy outside to get much done inside. When you live alone, it’s always a balancing act trying to decide what chore to do next.
If you would, I’d appreciate it if you’d include where you watched something. Maybe I just missed it, but I’d like to check on Payback. Have you watched The Firm on Prime? You might like it!
Sorry about that. I watched it on Britbox.
The 28th is the last possible day Thanksgiving can be on. I figured that out years ago because my younger daughter was born on the 29th so Thanksgiving never falls on her birthday.