Thanksgiving Dinner

What a month of "issues."  In late October/early November my phone company (Frontier) had problems with DSL with ALL of southwest Michigan.  I finally got internet back on after eight days.  Last Thursday the water department came and had to shut my water off due to a main break from all the work being done at the Shell station next door (they're getting all new tanks).  Then Friday night, while checking guests in, we all heard a loud boom and what sounded like a car revving and revving.  This is what we found:

A truck hit the phone pole and telephone box by my front sign.  It split the pole in two and landed on top of the stump.  He was trying to back up off the pole.  That took out my phone & DSL service.    I finally got phone service restored this afternoon. 

The last couple of days I have felt sick.  I am assuming it is the 48 hour flu.  I couldn't eat anything yesterday and by the evening I was feeling like eating soup.  I went into the basement and found some turkey noodle soup made by Ray on December 2, 2009 from leftover turkey from Thanksgiving of 2009.  It really tasted very good.  It was nice to eat a dinner made by Ray's own hands...two years later!

Thanksgiving is already just four days away.  It is hard to believe.  My second year without Ray.  Drew is coming in tomorrow from Chicago.  I look forward to seeing him again.  He and Friedl will be here and the three of us will celebrate Thanksgiving together.  - Jimmy