Thanksgiving Day started foggy.

I raked part of the yard while the turkey was in the oven and some after I indulged.

Small scale turkey dinner of turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy (one of the BEST gravies ever!!!), roasted green beans, cranberry-orange-meyer lemon sauce with coconut-popsicle for desert!

Lovely dinner. Bear had some turkey also. Auggie was not interested in the turkey.

I think my favorite part of Thanksgiving dinner is the turkey-potatoes-gravy part … with a tart cranberry sauce alongside.

BUT, this year…running a close second was a mashed potato-broccoli pancake with sausage and more of the turkey gravy: day after T-Day breakfast.

And this morning, in honor of Hanukkah, I had sweet potato latkes with sausage and gravy.

Amen and Oy Vey!!

And then Bear did this…

…Auggie, too…

…and me, three!

Friday night, it snowed…a little bit:

Where is Auggie?

Incoming!

Keep 2 feet on the ground at all times!

It doesn’t matter which 2 feet!

PAX

Phew…all that playing in the snow…time for a nap.

Later…

On the front porch, with a glass of wine…rosemary-walnut-parmesan shortbread crackers. I am a total shortbread convert courtesy of Sue of The View from Great Island (search shortbread). These “wine crackers” – kind of a savory, buttery biscotti. Utter-YUM!

Meanwhile…we have been issued a winter storm warning for Sunday through Wednesday: 1-8 inches of snow, wind, COLD as in below 10F during the day and below 0F overnight. If NOAA is correct, December is going to start with a Winter bang!

Bear and I went to town this morning (Saturday) and replenished supplies. The forecast is for a winter storm, not a “storm of the century” kind of thing…but, I prefer to stay home and off the roads if things are even the least dicey…let those that must go be out there. So – the pantry is stocked with all manner of food and treats for Bear, Auggie and me and we will let the storm happen, if it does and be happy and warm in our own little house, in our own little woods.