[Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving food

[ranvaig at columbus.rr.com]

Well, we're not in Iowa as planned.  An hour out the front wheel 
nearly came off.

We stopped with only one of the five lugnuts intact, the other four, 
the stud had broken.  Any other day it would have been easy to fix, 
but nothing was open, so we ended up being towed back to Columbus. 
Like last July, when we were towed with a dead van from a spot just a 
bit farther on.... only colder and wetter.  But we were safe and no 
real damage to the car.  If we had lost the wheel in freeway traffic, 
it could have been much worse.

My 11 yr old, Kate, and I stopped at the grocery closest to us, and 
got food.... and some champagne... and walked back with it all in the 
rain.  Which was more fun than it sounds, we were laughing and 
running thru the puddles, since we were too wet to care if we got 
wetter.  Kate won a silly toy from one of those claw machines, which 
almost consoled her for not seeing her cousin.

We had "ready to eat" food, since it was 4pm by then an no one had 
eaten all day.  Nice crusty sour dough bread with good cheese and 
some beautiful pears, a rather disappointing cranberry bread, a 
chicken already roasted, and some shrimp... and champagne.  My grown 
son Shawn and his gf Tara stopped by with their puppy.  Then I took a 
nap.  The suitcases are still in the van.

I have a turkey defrosting and I'll probably make "Thanksgiving 
Dinner" tomorrow.  An odd thanksgiving to be sure, but it was a good 
one anyway.

Ranvaig
giving thanks for that fifth lugnut