Our Day-Early Thanksgiving

Our little family observed Thanksgiving on the day before the official date. One makes accommodations when the kids split their time between two households and especially when the other grandmother plans a big, traditional gathering and dinner out of town.

Sue and I did one of our customary morning strolls and spent most of the afternoon at home before heading over to Sha's around 5 o'clock.

We took one more photo from the bridge looking upriver as Sue continues to look for the best conditions to complete her four seasonal photos from the same spot. This was my version but not too dissimilar from hers.

I've been playing around with selfies more than usual with the new phone. I'll explain more about it all someday.

With an orange-themed week coming up, Sue took this one of me, but she never knows ahead of time what all parts of the prompt might be, so I don't yet know if she'll actually use it for her group.

At the official get-together later, I grabbed a typical shot of JJ absorbed with his phone.

Sha took this selfie with my camera after I showed her how it worked. Once again, I'll save the explanation for a later date.

Everyone had a turn with my phone, and Dani took this one of me in portrait mode.

And Sue took one of Dani and me sitting side by side.

There wasn’t much else, apart from delish lasagna and apple pie although Jonathan's girlfriend did drop by, and he then became quite happy to get away from his phone.

Oh, two more: both are selfies. I had only known about Christmas crackers until then, but Sha found Thanksgiving crackers, which were basically just like the Christmas ones.

We can't be the only family that does crackers. Do you?