Thanksgiving

In our family we have some traditions during the thanksgiving break.  My younger brother and I are usually lucky enough to have at least one of the two brothers in law that we have there with us.  Our activities are fun ones, as well as ones that require some hard work to get the ranch ready for the coming winter months.  For example, covering up something we call “Dodge City” which is the face of an old western ghost town around a giant sandy pit.  This year it also included fixing the tractor and loading and stacking wood to battle the cold winter air.  But also, we tend to race the go-cart around while competing in time trials, as well as blow up some Halloween pumpkins with the giant potato cannon.  For Thanksgiving dinner, we generally go eat and celebrate with the neighbors on the hill, which ended up being more than fifty people this year.  There is always plenty of food and plenty of dessert as well, which we all enjoy.  One of the last things we generally always do during thanksgiving break is going up into the mountains to cut down a giant Christmas tree.  It usually becomes a Saturday neighborhood event, with people bringing all kinds of leftovers and lawn chairs up to the Christmas tree farm.  The parents sit around and chat while the kids run around in the field of trees playing tag or hide and go seek.  This goes on for a couple of hours until the adults think the kids have an idea where their tree might be.  I always enjoyed the trip because our family always came up the hill hauling the biggest tree.  Decorating the tree and eating more dessert was always a great way to end the holiday vacation.