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NOVEMBER – Winter is setting in. With return to Standard Time the dark evenings are even longer. It will soon be dark by 6:00 p.m. here in southern Ohio. Many of our November days are just all-over grey, from grey skies to gray hills with leafless grey trees and grey atmosphere – just cold, damp and gloomy. Still too early to expect much, if any, snow. But on an occasional sunny day we might enjoy a heavy frost on lingering green leaves. And inside all is warm, colorful and cheery. All month (in my family, anyway) we are planning the Thanksgiving feast. Thanksgiving Day, a day set aside for giving thanks to God for all the blessings in our lives, is a national holiday and a major one for most of us.
Here at the Gabfest, we have the gloom of empty nests. But we also have the cheer of knowing that Millicent is settled in her warm winter home, while Breagha is enjoying his second winter not too far away. Our chat-room fires are kept burning brightly and our new TV/telly screen is always at the ready., so hopefully we can all keep our computers in working order and enjoy a little chit-chat, some music and maybe a bit of streetwalking. Special Events include the possibility of another Music Night with suggested Movie theme and a group streetwalk to some as yet mystery location.
So where is our Gabfest chat-room.? Have you ever wondered? Well of course, it is at some undisclosed cyberspace location in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, not too far from the Loch Garten nest, home of EJ and Odin.
It has been thick fog all day today and not pleasant to drive in. Plenty of bird visitors to our feeders lots of blue tits and great tits also coal tits. A woodpecker also visits from time to time and today a green woodpecker who chose to sit on my fence for a while, but i was too slow with the camera!
Willow I too am very fond of The Sea! thread and it's successor. Yes wonderful photos if one loves the ocean as I do.
Yes I am enjoying WOBO. Jessie is playing good music today. Coming in from another part of the house, I thought I had left a faucet on as I was sure I was hearing running, splashing water. Actually it was background accompaniment to "Over the Sea to Skye". Marvelous!!
Willow said "today a green woodpecker who chose to sit on my fence for a while, but i was too slow with the camera!"
And so it goes Willow, :) Better luck next time!
Fish, I'm not the one who has been away for almost three weeks! :) But yes I am well, thanks for asking.
I"m glad that you are and good to see you back again. You have been missed.
SunnyKate - Thanks much for your link to Woodlaand Trust. . It has a wonderful picture of "Lady's Tree" which shows Lady's nest quite well.
Woodland Trust HERE
It is snowing again at Ithaca, New York - sticking and piling up. Pity I can never capture. the flakes
Starling I'm glad to see that you still peek in at the gabfest now and then, but I do miss your chat and news and opinions.
Happy American Thanksgiving to those of you in the States!
I am smelling the deliciousness of a turkey in the oven roasting. I am at a friend's and it is the first time either of us has done a roast turkey. (I am Chinese by heritage, and we had many birthdays around this time so we always had special birthday noodles.) To tell you the truth, I don't really care for turkey except as leftovers in a stew. But the roasting smell is DELISH!
I love the Ithaca photo, June. I drove out of Rochester away from falling snow to Buffalo - what a change of pace that Buffalo wasn't the one being hit with snow. Eastern Mass. and eastern NY were hit yesterday, but nothing here in Buffalo.
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our friends on the other side of the pond! I am glad that the snowing has stopped. Enjoy your roast turkey CC!
I'll join CC and Willow in wishing Everyone in the States a Very Happy Thanksgiving! While we did not have turkey for dinner, we did add sweet potatoes and cranberry sauce as side dishes to our chicken tonight as a nod toward the holiday! Hope Everyone there has a happy and safe day!
Kind regards, Ann