I am thankful that Thanksgiving is a year away.

The joint venture meal between the GM and his crew and me and my crew went well. All four of the GM's daughters were in and along with his wife helped pull the meal off. Krl was our groups lead representative to the meal preparation, especially toward the early part of preparation. We fed almost a hundred people! The crews were appreciative, happy and jovial. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun. We cooked five turkeys and four hams, two large tubs of cornbread dressing, gallons of green beans, a gross of yams, a pile of mashed potatoes, corn, cranberry sauce, sixteen dozen rolls, fruit salad and mandarian salad, and sweets and deserts too numerous to count! It was a feast. We had several employees bring their entire families and it was good to see kiddos decked out in their finest!. We had one truck driver whose mother drove out from Abilene to have Thanksgiving with her son. No one was turned away! We even had a small tangent who would not come inside to eat but were wanting to have plates. I believe we prepared thirteen takeout plates. The majority of these were the burr contractor's men (the burr contractor didn't participate in the meal prep, he went home to be with his family). As far as all of us remaining at the compound, for the two hours we took off to eat and celebrate, we were family!

Frankie carried all the left over pies and cakes out to the gin after shift change. Krl had one safety turkey that she was going to send but then she cut her finger while cutting the meat off the bone and bled all over it! Actually she wasn't even supposed to be doing that, I told her we would take the whole bird along with a loaf of bread and some tortillas out there for the guys to eat on through the night. She is A.D.D. and couldn't remember what I had told her we were doing. The one thing she did really well yesterday was to bleed all over everything! (Put it in your books, electric knifes will cut flesh!).

Hope your thanksgiving was good.

Be the real deal.

FATHER, it is in YOUR hands!