Thanksgiving 2018

In what I hope will continue to be a Thanksgiving tradition, I started the day by teaching a song at Tripti’s gratitude Nia Jam.  Dave had suggested Mr Roboto by Styx, since it has the words “Thank You” in both English and Japanese. It was great fun to teach it and to watch everybody bring out their best robot dancing. I was especially exciting to get a chance to dance with Aaron Frye and his family – it’s only taken 6 years to get him to come to a class.  Now I need a new impossible goal.

I didn’t actually start the day at Nia, I started the day with knitting. I am making a hat for Ben, and it has to be ready to finish by next Tuesday because that’s when the class to learn how to do the kitchener stitch to finish it is. I also learned provisional cast on and german short rows for this hat. What I mostly learned is that I don’t like taking group classes and I really don’t like having a deadline for when things need to be done. I worked on it before class, and also after lunch, when I managed to completely mess something up which took an hour to fix and isn’t all the way fixed yet. I am hoping it is fixable. (ed. note: it is)

In between class and lunch there was packing, in which I took out shirts to pack but didn’t actually pack them. So the after lunch part of the day was a little rocky. Fortunately it is black Friday tomorrow and Cannon Beach has plenty of shirt options. Lunch was not rocky, it was delicious tuna sandwiches made with homemade bread and pickles and tuna caught locally and canned with local olive oil and sea salt (not by Dave, if you were wondering. At least not yet). Josh and Jen are in Connecticut with Ira, and Tim is having Thanksgiving with Alyssa, so we get to eat whatever we want.

Once we were on the road it was all good. We listened to a little Stan Freberg (the “Early Years”) and I had a small but effective nap, pretty much missing the Thanksgiving section of the CD. This year we are staying at Schooner’s Cove, which is slightly more centrally located and has a bedroom separate from the living room/kitchen area, so I can make tea in the morning without waking Dave up.  The downside is that it’s a long narrow room, darker and more cramped feeling than the rooms at the Waves. We are reserving judgement.

It was supposed to be rainy, but it wasn’t raining when we got here so we went for a nice walk. It was very windy, although not too cold. The tide was way far out, so we walked to Haystack Rock. As always there were lots of people on the beach all bundled up. After our walk we had our traditional cheese and charcuterie Thanksgiving dinner which was yummy, especially the stilton and pata de cabra cheeses and the little container of figgy jam.  Also I love the smoked duck breast.

Once we’d cleaned up from dinner (this place has a dishwasher!) it was still not raining so we headed out on another walk, through town down to wayfarer, and then back on the beach road. For the second year we looked in on the folks having the wonderful Thanksgiving feast at EVOO and were glad not to be there.

We finished the night with pie and TWO Garfield holiday specials, both Thanksgiving and Christmas. Why, I remember when all they had was wood burnin’ cats. What will they think of next? By the end of the second video we were stuffed and exhausted, so off to bed.