I hope you all have a wonderful day, whether or not you celebrate. Unlike a lot of Americans Andy and I love our everyday life so we don’t do anything different. And unlike a lot of people, I’m grateful for this year. I’m almost 81 and Andy 86, so we’re grateful we still have one another…we don’t take that for granted. We haven’t seen Kaitlin, Torben and the pups for almost a year, and won’t for months at least, but we keep in close touch with pictures, emails, and phone calls.
We’re also grateful that we can still do most of what we love…for Andy puttering up on the land, for me exercising down here while streaming videos, and of course, blogging. I was isolated and lonely at times when I was a kid, so I still marvel at how connected we all can be through the internet.
Thank you all for being part of my blogging family. 🙂
November 26, 2020
The only thing we do differently from every day life is have homemade pumpkin pie. We also have turkey sandwiches but those are not limited to Thanksgiving. I am thankful we live such a good life and that I am an introvert so social isolating is easy for me thanks to all of you out there in internet land.
I’m on the borderline between introvert and extravert (Jung’s spelling), and, like you, social isolating is no problem thanks to blogging. On the whole this has been a good year for us.
Truth! I like what Hemmingway said, “Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
Feeling mighty blessed by the unexpected-but-valued friends I’ve discovered through blogging!
Yes. Me too!
it has been a good day.
and ordinary day. but the sun was shining and I’m still alive!
‘can’t beat that with a stick.’
I have no idea where that old saying originates!
but ordinary is just fine.
sending you love. and gratitude for this great daily blog of yours.
it adds to my life. as do YOU. xoxo
Thank you! And thank you for being my friend.
Our day was definitely different from other years, but it was still nice. Our daughters and families stopped by for a driveway chat. It was good to see all of them, especially the grands. We did a big family Zoom meeting in the afternoon to include our son and family from Texas. And then we had our dinner – at least the cleanup for two was a lot easier than for our typical 14:)
Happy Thanksgiving.
I’m glad you could stay connected even if it wasn’t perfect. 🙂
We have so much in common. I was an only and lonely child. Phil & I are 71 and 80. We love our daily life and it was a normal day today, with a roast beef dinner. We haven’t gotten together with our family since maybe March, before Covid hit. and it doesn’t look to get better very soon. Still, we are so blessed to have each other and be healthy!!
Yes!
Happy Thanksgiving
I hope you had a good day. 🙂
I was also isolated and lonely in my childhood. And I feel like to be alone and we do the same thing as the two of you do we love our everyday life and we do the same thing every day 365 days out of the year. And that includes all the holidays. Until this year we would eat out on the holiday but not this year. Maybe we are happy with our lives because we are very similar in age I am 76 and Bob is 84
We”re both blessed. 🙂
Belated Happy Thanksgiving…
In a way that’s why when we have our main end of celebration of Christmas Day – I don’t see it as being anything that I have to especially be part of… Not sure what I will do this year, I had hoped to be away from home.
I rarely see any of my extended whanau (family) – last w/end a short visit from my niece on her way some place else. Always in a rush, can never stop for cake and coffee – or even say “will bring us a bite to eat”
But I do try to keep in contact with said whanau (online) and of course all of my blogging friends who live all over…and visit me in the morning with their posts, events and so forth…
Thank goodness for blogging! You have mentioned that Christmas with your family wasn’t fun, so mostly you tried to schedule something else. I don’t think I would have trouble just ignoring Christmas.
Same here, we are in our 80’s also, and very happy to still have each other.
And to not have been people, whose life style is to go-go-go. This way, Pandemic Isolation is not such a hard task.
Each of us, has the Right to live our lives, exactly as we choose. This, in regard to how you, or anyone, spends Holidays. -smile-
Thank you, for being part of my blogging family too!!!!
Thank you!
We do have a bit of big meal, but if weather permitted, I would be as content with burgers on the grill. Which happens to be one of my favorite meals. And if I have a tomato from my own garden, I call it a meal fit for a king.
I, too, am so thankful for the internet. Even living here in a small town, I would feel isolated without it. And the books! All of us siblings, except one, loves to read.
Our meals lately have been fit for a king…Andy has been bringing back fresh tomatoes from the greenhouse every day. They can’t last forever but we sure are enjoying them. 🙂
Well, like most Brits I don’t do Thanksgiving, but we ought to, because it’s a good way of recalling all the things we’re grateful for. Jenny obviously, also being in a peaceful country free of civil wars, still being fairly fit and healthy, having so many good books to read, and of course all the blog buddies I’ve met over the years.
We are so incredibly lucky. 🙂