Thanksgiving with Cheryl

 It has been a while since my last blog post, so I why not say something about the Holiday.    

Cheryl came up for Thanksgiving this weekend.    Mostly, she wanted to run the Kenosha Turkey Trott like she did last year.   And along the way   she decided that she might as well hang out with me.   It was fun. 

The cold weather moved in and that made the race and activities that followed a little bit of a challenge.   For instance!   We wanted to do a little beach combing,  but the cold wind made that experience short lived.   

One of the good things about beach combing on the shore while it is cold and windy is that there are not many other people out there to bother you.   We had the entire beach pretty much to ourselves.  And that would have been nice, had the cold not made it so unbearable.  

In the end,  we found a few items for Cheryl's scavenger hunt.  We shall see what she has in mind for them all.  

Other than that,  we headed off to a grocery store and found the main ingredients for a Turkey Dinner.   We enjoyed Thanksgiving in the quiet of our hotel room.  It was simple,  quiet, and kind of nostalgic.   A throw back to that first night of sharing a pot pie in our small apartment in Iowa that first day in  Wellman 

On Firday,  we ran a little, and did a little Christmas Shopping for the fam.   And enjoyed a Friday Night Fish Fry at a local pub. Nothing huge, mind you.   Just a few things that are local... in case they ever want to visit Kenosha someday.  

Cheryl packed up and headed back early this morning.   The water pipes broke at the hotel and that made showers, coffee, and breakfast impossible.   So she went home early.   The cold air was another reason to keep things indoors and small.   The cold even forced the air in my tires to  contract and set off the low tire pressure sensor.   I had to reinflate them to the proper levels so the light would go off.   Rather irritating. 

I managed to get a few of my school work items checked off.   A created a test and corrected a number of papers.  I still have to brush up on the physics lesson and make sure I have everything in order for the upcoming weeks.   With Christmas around the corner, I'm sure the kids are going to get crazy morea nd more as the break approaches.  Since this is still my first year,  I will have to be prepared for anything.  Let's hope things work out and I can survive the holidays as I used to all of those years before back when we did Christmas Stockings.  

Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.   And enjoyed some food with family and fiends.  Because every second counts!   

Happy Holidays!  And God Bless