Yesterday was a success. For it being the first turkey I ever cooked in my life I have to say that it was delicious. 3 things we did that we had never before made all the difference. First was the brining overnight and then stuffing it with oranges, lemon and onion and then waiting 30 mins. after it came out of the oven before carving it. When Clay sliced the first piece of white meat it was dripping juices. So moist and tender. I also added pecans to our sweet potato and marshmallows this year and it gave it such a nice flavor. Dinner was delicious.
Drew (with Alex's help, ok not really a help but he thought so) put the tree all together. It reaches to the top of our vaulted ceiling then Clay put all the lights on it. It didn't snow like we had hoped but it is nice and cold just like the holidays should be. Frances and I got a lot of popcorn strung and Alex ate handfuls at a time. After I get off here I'm going to work on stringing more, with such a big tree it takes a lot. When we take the tree down we will take all the popcorn off the string and feed it to the chickens. Next year we want to pick a tree outside and decorate it with things for the wild animals to eat. Things like pine cones smeared with peanut butter and then rolled in bird seed and strung popcorn and other things like that. A Christmas treat for the wildlife.
Our first Thanksgiving on our farm. The only thing that would have made it any better than it was would have been to have all our family here. Maybe some year, of course if I had to chose I would always chose Christmas as the holiday to spend with all our family.
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