A Good Time Was Had By All
From 2008 Thanksgiving |
My sister, Millie, and her husband, Drew, had us all to their house in Charlotte, NC.
My brother John and I drove up from Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon. So did half of Atlanta try to leave at the same time. A normal three hour drive became a five and a half hour drive. Lewis, Avery and Gracie drove over from Durham on Thursday.
Millie, Drew, and John worked all day Thursday cooking. The turkey went in the oven about 11 AM. The “cooked-to-death” green beans started about the same time. There was potato salad, dressing, sweet potato cassarole, cranberry relish, rolls and an apple pie to end off with.
I had a good time with Gracie. She is still in her terrible-twos stage but was pretty well behaved for the weekend.
We finished off the day with a rousing game of “Mexican Train” dominoes. I lost badly.
On Friday, Lewis, Avery, and Gracie drove back to their house. Andy and John did a minor house repair. Millie and I worked on her computers. She had a program on her laptop that would peg her CPU utilization at 100%. I found the offending process and looked it up on Google. Changing the service to start Manual instead of Auto fixed that. Avery was very grateful.
John and I drove back today.