mdlbear | Thankful Thanksgiving Thursday

So this is (American) Thanksgiving day, so it might be a good time to sum up the year, and maybe broaden the time span.

    $  ls ../2018/12/*thankf* ../2019/*/*thankf* | wc
    => 48 # gratitude posts in the last 12 months, so 4 weeks missed.

That includes today, of course. Today I am grateful for...

My family, the Rainbow Caravan: my wife Colleen, my sister N, her husband G, and their teenagers, j, m, and c.
Our kids, Riley and Emmerald, and their families.
My Mom (turning 99 next month);
Our cats: Desti and Ticia at the caravan's north end; Cricket, Bronx, and Brooklyn at the south end. We have excellent cats.
The fact that none of us are in immediate danger of dying. Some of us have serious problems, but we're all doing as well as can be expected.
Modern medicine, especially including antibiotics. Special thanks to C's care teams, spread across two hospitals, two SNFs, and the home health nurses.
A good recipe for turkey (from the wrapper): preheat oven to 400; coat bird with olive oil and rub with 2tsp each salt, pepper, and sage; put bird in and turn down to 325.
Open source / free software. Special mention of Linux, Emacs, GNU Make, and Git.
The membership of OVFF, for voting "Ship of Stone" the Pegasus it deserved. About time.
Nancy, my singing teacher.
Whidbey Island.
Carleton College (with extra gratitude for an awesome 50th reunion).

NaBloPoMo stats:
  14477 words in 28 posts this month (average 517/post)
    259 words in 1 post today

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