Our first Thanksgiving get-together and feast. And hot water heater easy fix.

Where are we today ? 

New Hamburg Ontario

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           Another mild night and great sleep. Up and ready for another busy day. First thing a nice quiet walk down the road and back about a mile or so. Then gonna have a shower. Hmm not right, now our propane hot water tank did not heat up? It would fire up then quit after 5 seconds. So and old standby trick I learned years ago. Get my air compressor out and blow through the bottom where the burner is and the top  a few times. Now turned it on and fired right up, could have been cobwebs, spiders or some dirt. Not matter it works fine now. Nice easy fix.
        Then into the house about 8 :30 am to put the 3rd chicken in the oven today, turn on the slow cooker to heat up the mashed Rutabaga, slice up the cold chicken from yesterday  and get ready to make gravy. Boil the 2 pots of potatoes and whip them up. Just puttered a bit while Suzie` and Sandy set the tables and silverware out , punch made, corn on to cook, and odds and ends getting ready for the Thanksgiving crowd of 27 to arrive around noon with their pot luck contributions to round out the meal.

carving the last of the three chickens we cooked here

           Everyone  greated and so nice to see the family together again, about 27 people in all it''s been a while for some especially Suzie's cousin, husband and son from Germany. At 1 pm grace was said and we all dug in for the feast. So much tasty food , then the desert, oh my ! Conversations carried on in the 2 large rooms and I got to chat with most everyone here for a bit.

Suzie and nephew Reid

     Now the food line begins,  salads, homemade stuffing , brussel sprouts, corn, whipped potatoes, rutabagas , chicken  and gravy.

oh so tasty  and so much food,
 rutabagas orange color 

some people in the sunroom

more of us in the kitchen

      Then the desert,  4 pies,  fruit trays and an amazing apple cake by Shelly then of course ice cream and whipped cream, tea and coffee, we had it all.

deserts lots of goodies.

I had a tiny piece of strawberry Rhubarb pie and the apple cake
now I have had my limit

lots of parking here for the family

     They played a few card games , and Suzie and I helped Sandy clean up a bit  and by 5 pm most everyone had gone, places to go our whatever. Nice that we could get together at this time of year and help out with the food prep and cleaning.

     Tomorrow we head to my daughter's in Aurora to do it all over again with my family only about 16 of us though. To celebrate our Thanksgiving, a few birthdays and Christmas just because we can.

     That was our fun Thanksgiving today, not great weather for being outside but at least no too cold. Hope y'all had a great day doing whatever and all our Canadian friends celebrating on this long weekend we can enjoy. And travel safely wherever you go.

      Thanks for joining us today.

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