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Thanksgiving 2025 Skywatch

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Things change fast this time of year. At the beginning of the month we had lots of fall color on the trees.

We had some rain and some wind.

And now all the fall color is on the ground. I enjoy the bare trees though.

I went geocaching on a two mile long trail in Osage County. I found ten geocaches. It was heavenly. Didn’t see anybody besides a few cows and a bunch of squirrels.

One of my wife’s family in western Oklahoma since this photo from out there. Eastern Oklahoma has lots of trees and western part of the state has big skies. I love both the east and the west.

Wedenesday evening I saw what I called an auspicious sky. The whole sky was pink and gave everything on the ground an rosy pink glow. I loved it.

It’s a small crew of three at our house for Thanksgiving this year. Just me, Heather and our son Logan.

Heather is cooking a delicious dinner. Still a lot of work but we appreciate it.

And there is sadness this year. Bob my brother passed away last week. He had a debilitating illness for six years.

A Navy vet through and through. And a huge runner. Over 50 marathons and over a 100 half marathons and countless 5K’s. He had huge physical toughness.

When he wasn’t deployed, and after he retired, he would come to Tulsa for Thanksgiving and we would run together, go hiking, check out museums and such. He loved being active. He loved Thanksgiving also. We haven’t been able to do that for a long time but after he got sick my sister and I got him to Tulsa and I oversaw his care in various residences. He loved the activities that they had and then he discovered virtual runs. I paced out how many laps of in his residence were a 5K and then he would register and “run” them in his wheelchair and loved getting the medals. He was always happy with what he could do when he couldn’t do what he used to do.

We miss him. Definitely a happy sad today.

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday.

Happy Thanksgiving Skywatch

Thanksgiving is here again. I hope that if you celebrate it that you can do so with family. I’ve been lucky I’ve never had Thanksgiving without family.

We’ve had big gatherings and we have had small ones. This year it is just us three along with the two critters. My brother is nearby so we’ll go visit him in his apartment.

We are buying are dinner ready made and heating it up. We’ve done the big all day cooking thing so with just three of us, this is the way to go.

Our two critters, Kodi and Lizzy. They are not really big fans of each other right now.

So if you celebrate, Have a Great Thanksgiving!!

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday

Thanksgiving 2023

Thanksgiving 2023 is complicated.

We are always thankful for our many blessings.

But sometimes their are distractions such as health and wellness that intrude.

But you know, just look around, there is lots to be thankful about. I am loving the fall colors in northeast Oklahoma.

And of course we have our sometimes spectacular skies to be thankful for. Especially those skies that don’t have funnel clouds in them!

From our family to yours, Happy Thanksgiving!! a couple days early, but what they hey.

Linking with My Corner of the World and Skywatch Friday

Saturday’s Critters – at Home

Here’s our one year old pomeranian, Kodi. He was kind of shaggy so he went to the groomer today and he got all trimmed up and got a special Thanksgiving tie to boot. He tore it off very quickly but we got a photo of him.

Here he is in the back yard. He loves picking up acorns and bringing them inside to trade for a treat.

And a black and white cat who shows up when it is dark.

And sometimes in broad daylight.

And a first sighting for this light colored cat.

And of course squirrels. We are inundated with them.

And I’m linking this week with Saturday’s Critters

2022 Thanksgiving Skywatch

DSCF0495 — RiverParks painted the storage container at Turkey Mountain. I love it.

It’s Thanksgiving today. This day always brings back floods of memories going back decades.

DSCF0502 — Crooked Trees on Turkey Mountain

When I was a kid we would travel frequently to southeastern Idaho. I think my mother was related to half the people there. We would gather at a family member’s ranch near Dubois, Idaho. All sorts of aunts, uncles, cousins and such would be there. Lots of fun for the kids, lots of rest for the men and a huge amount of work for the women.

I’m glad that I have those memories. My parents and everybody in that generation is now gone on my mother’s side of the family.

Over the years since, the Thanksgiving’s have grown and shrunk and changed considerably. Not as much food, not as much work the guys are expected to help out with the cleanup. It’s all good.

Thanksgiving is a time to remember people who are no long with us.

IMAG1601 — Our crew from 2016. Sorry for the glare from the window. One of the many reasons I call myself a “picture taker” and not a photographer.

I’ve been married for a long time now and many of my in-laws traditions are now ours. For example I smoke the turkeys and other meats instead of roasting them in the oven.

Also, the moderate weather in Oklahoma compared to Idaho means that there have been some Thanksgiving dinners have been eaten outside.

AI Thanksgiving — Artificial Intelligence generated photo of a Thanksgiving feast.

We’ve all gotten older and cannot eat as much. I confess we use disposable plates to speed up the cleanup.

5568BD09-47E3-435A-8FCE-03D9C8293DB0 — Jigsaw puzzle I completed recently.

I wish everyone a great Thanksgiving!!

New Update!! Today’s Thanksgiving Photo

Clockwise from upper left, Me, Logan, brother Bob, wife Heather, and MIL Jeanette

Linking with Skywatch Friday

Thanksgiving 2021

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody!!

We’ve had big Thanksgivings and smaller ones, especially with this pandemic we have been having. This year is a smaller one. A big treat is that we are having Thanksgiving on Wednesday with my brother at his Assisted Living Center. I’m looking forward to that.

It will just be a few of us on Thanksgiving Day. As our waistlines have expanded, we have downsized the meal. We don’t have the appetites we used to have anyway. We use disposable plates for the meal so nobody gets stuck with the dishes.

We’ll be counting our blessings as well. We have lots to be thankful for.

I’m wishing you a very Happy Thanksgiving

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Black Friday 2016 at the Tulsa Zoo

I don’t know about you but we really enjoyed Thanksgiving this year (we do every year) we had a lot smaller group than usual but we did just fine. Uncle Bob drove up from Corpus Christi and the world’s greatest MIL hosted the dinner. We enjoyed fine food and fellowship most of the day.

The next day is the notorious Black Friday where everybody gets up terribly early and stands in line to trample their fellow humans to get half price televisions and laptops and such. Not us, we slept in. We had a guy trip to the Tulsa Zoo. No standing in lines there, easy parking, and friendly people!! I hope you enjoyed your shopping, we enjoyed our nonshopping.

The first critter we ran into was this grizzly. He doesn’t look too happy in there all by himself.

Next was this rattlesnake all coiled up and ready to strike. I don’t know much about rattlesnakes but I’m wondering if this is kind of an old guy judging by his filmy eyes. He might just be confused. I do geocaching and trail running and am always concerned about running into snakes. It seems we have more copperheads than rattlesnakes but I’m cautious nonetheless.

And an American Bald Eagle. They sure do look noble.

And a pair of American Albino Alligators. This dude is in serious need of some orthodontics.

And a Scarlet Ibis.

And a pic of son.

And a Golden Headed Lion Tamarin. He doesn’t look happy either.

And the flamingos are always cool and elegant.

The Rhino was up and doing this thing.

And the giraffes were reaching for their lunch.

And the elephants were having their meal as well.

I tried to see if the Zoo wanted this guy for the chimp exhibit. Nope, he eats too much he says.

There is a big construction project going on at the zoo. The Tulsa Zoo Lost Kingdom is going to be a huge addition with enhanced habitat for many of the critters. It is going to be finished sometime next year.

A good time was had by all. We celebrated Brother Bob’s birthday and so we had another excuse to eat well!!

I hope everybody had a good Thanksgiving and a pleasant Black Friday. We sure did.

Skywatch Friday – Thanksgiving Edition

Happy Thanksgiving Everybody

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Skywatch Friday – Afternoon Walk Around the Pond

For Thanksgiving we spent with family western Oklahoma. It is truly the land of the big skies and the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, son Logan, brother Bob, and I went on a walk around a local pond. It was spectacular, not a cloud in the deep blue sky, the grass and brush were a golden color but the trees still had a lot of green on them. It was like a perfect moment that I will remember forever.

I’m linking with Skywatch Friday

Thanksgiving 2015

This year we loaded up with MIL Nana and Brother Bob and headed off to western Oklahoma for Thanksgiving.

We got there Wednesday afternoon and the it was warm if a little windy so Logan, Brother Bob (way back there) and I found a nature trail to stretch our legs a little bit.

A little bit later and we started a pre-celebration. Thanksgiving is not something you want to get into without warming up to it.

Among other things we celebrated Nana’s birthday. She likes bling, and among other things she got a blingy cap to add to her collection.

She even had a crown on her cake.

We had a great time with the family and met one or two new members, played a game or two and ate a lot of food. And then we booked it Thursday right after dinner to beat an ice storm bearing down on us from Colorado. You know people are too worried about Syrian immigrants coming into the US. I say bring them on, put them to work, we could use hard working people here. What I want is for Colorado to keep all their winter weather at home. Is that asking too much?

How was your Thanksgiving??

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