Showing posts with label thanksgiving. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thanksgiving. Show all posts

Sunday, December 1, 2019

Thanksgiving at Palmer

We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner here on the actual day of Thanksgiving. A really impressive spread of food...


...nice table set-up...


...SUCH a beautiful day (like 40 degrees, sunny, no wind) that people were able to eat out on the deck...


...and some people getting REALLY into the fancy holiday spirit...


...it was definitely an evening that made me feel glad and lucky to be here.


Wednesday, December 4, 2013

Orlando & Grandma

It's harder to come up with blog posts when I stay in the same place for ten days at a time!

Most years I lived in Denver, I would fly to Orlando for a long weekend to hang out with my amazing Grandma G -- who, at 91, is still sharp as a tack and playing her weekly round of golf. (She gives me hope that fifty years from now I might still be able to trot the globe in one way or another.)

Now that I am unemployed, homeless, and even car-free (it's okay to use the word "hobo"; I kind of like it) it seemed like a great time to avoid our typical "This visit was far too short!" routine of the Denver years. So I planned for more than a week with G over Thanksgiving. My parents also came to Orlando for the holiday weekend, and we had a lovely T-day dinner out.


Other than that, it's been long walks every day, visits to the pool, lots of time to read, some movie-going, and just general relaxing goodness. Whenever G is around, there is also plenty of playing these:


Which is directly related me losing a lot of these:


We played a bunch of Phase 10 and 3-13 when my parents were here…


…and then after they left, we resumed afternoon card games with the ladies at the pool.


What a lady, that G.