The Country Celebrated With Me

My 60th Birthday and Thanksgiving, of course. We trust that everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving with lots of loving family and friends and turkey. If you look closely at my necklace, you will see that I am bedecked in a lovely turkey & pearl necklace, bestowed upon me by my niece, Susan. Her three boys, Conor (12), Will (10), and John (8), started the day by running in the annual Turkey Trot, a 6 mile race at 6 a.m. She found the necklace at a stand there and felt it appropriately descriptive of me. Hhm!!!

At 1 p.m., we assembled around the table to give thanks and then we fed those starving little boys. We had a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, topped off with several pies and a pumpkin cake with six candles, one for each decade. Yikes!

Later that evening, Mel and I went to see "Pride and Prejudice" with Keira Knightly. It was a wonderfully executed, though Mel thought it was too artsy-fartsy, if you know what he means.