A Goat's Trip Down Mehmory Lane: Thanksgiving Day Edition

Happy Thanksgiving all you mehtizens! This month has flown by and I haven’t posted anything in a couple weeks…you can blame me for that.
In keeping with the Mehmory Lane theme, I’m gonna reminisce about my childhood Thanksgivings. I’m grateful that I had such a wonderful family growing up. I’m not quite sure how they pulled everything off, I know it was hard work. I grew up on a dairy farm and chores were plenty. The cows had to be milked in the morning and evening, the calves had to be fed, and the myriad of other daily chores had to be done. With everything that happened everyday, my parents and grandparents and aunts found a way to get us all together for a wonderful meal on Thanksgiving. My cousin’s and I would play football in the yard or get into some other mischievous mayhem, but we would all be together. Dinners were pretty simple with basically the same menu every year. Homemade bread, turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, gravy, you know the typical things. We kids would always sit at the card table set up specially for us and the adults would cackle around the dining room table. It was an all-around good time that I did not appreciate enough back then. I miss my grandmother’s pickles, I have no idea what kind they were, but they were my favorite. Probably some sort of a sweet and sour pickle if that exists, they were cut thick and we’re almost a fluorescent green in color. No one in the family remembers her recipe if they even knew it in the first place. She really was a wonderful person, somehow balancing the farm life and the home life with grace. She could also snap a switch off of a tree faster than anyone I’ve ever seen to give us spankings when we were out of line. After dinner the chores awaited us again and we were back to work. I’ll admit the farming was hard and I hated it then, but I’m so grateful that I grew up in that atmosphere because I had a lot more opportunities to grow than many children do today. Again, Happy Thanksgiving everyone, enjoy your families as best you can. Time is flying faster than we can blink.
Also, today is my birthday. Happy Bleatday to me!