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Today, I want to thank you all so much for all of your support. The best readers in the world are right here. I love you guys! Eat, drink, and be merry today! Especially pie. Eat a LOT of pie. (I know I will.)
To add to your holiday spirit, I have a little farm animal video montage for you. Just a little peek of what I see every day when I walk outside. And I even forced myself to be in it for like two seconds. I’m SHY! Do I look uncomfortable in front of the camera? I am. I was born to be behind the camera. But one of my goals in the next year is to make more videos, and better videos, and get over my phobia about being on camera. Here goes–enjoy! (Seen here: My chickens, who chase me because they THINK I have cracked corn all the time even though I ONLY have it at night; Poky, in one of her “I was born to run” moods where she does laps around the goat yard; my sweet Little, napping under my sewing box; Clover, being her usual superior self; my dear little lonely duck; the crooked little hen on the porch; and me.)
Random Thanksgiving memories….. The time my mom came to my house early and my dad stayed behind to leisurely get ready. Then an ice storm hit. My dad ate a TV dinner alone that Thanksgiving and my mother couldn’t get out of my driveway for three days.
The time we went to my Oklahoma grandmother’s house. She was pretty old by then. She had left all the food sitting out for days before we got there. (We found out later.) We all got sick. I searched in her medicine cabinet and found a box of Pepto-Bismol pills. We all took them. Then we read the little foil packets she had put inside the Pepto-Bismol box. Ex-Lax. IN HER PEPTO-BISMOL box. I really shouldn’t continue this story any further.
My mother would sing hymns in the kitchen when she was cooking, especially when fixing holiday dinners. I always think of that when I’m fixing holiday dinners. (My father was a preacher man. When I was growing up and we’d sing in church, people used to ask me why I never used the book. I knew all the hymns by heart. I went to church 5,490,286 times when I was growing up.) Those are the things that make up our memories, even when we think our parents are so weird.
I hope you have a wonderful day! I hope you make great memories. Do something weird in front of your kids today. Don’t get iced in. And please, please read all medicine packaging carefully!
Posted by Suzanne McMinn on November 26, 2009
GrammieEarth
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I thought you looked fine on camera. I really think you did a great job on your Sam-e video. I thought you narrated it beautifully and you looked very much at ease in your appearance in the end.
Off to vote – I am up way too late tonight (which explains the brain fade I just had when I posted this on yesterday’s comments).
Happy Thanksgiving!
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I’m off to cast my vote. Happy Thanksgiving!
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Another dating story….we were at my grandparents house and everyone was raving about her stuffing. After dinner, my then boyfriend and I went for a walk, and said he couldn’t understand the fuss about the stuffing (not exactly in those words)_..I said Oh everyone loves gramdmom’s oyster stuffing, and the boyfriend looked positivily ill. Hated seafood!
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Hope you and your family have a wonderful Thanksgiving today. I hope everyone here on this blog has a wonderful Thanksgiving also.
Off to vote.
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I love your videos. I especially loved the way Little put her paw on the camera as though to say “Please, no more pictures!”
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
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I am so Thankful to have your blog to read every day~I can’t tell you how much I enjoy it and it has gotten me through so many “slow” days at work lately… I know~ Just what I should be thinking about at work~ but there are times that I just have to escape my world and enter into yours~Its therapy!
Hugs
P.S. Is it wrong to be eating a piece of oatmeal pecan pie at 6:30 in the morning?? LOL… I thought I was doing good, I woke up at 4:30 wanting a piece but was able to hold off for a few more zzz’s~
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Loved the video……..great start to my day! Family is looking like they’re waking, but I had to take my time to get my “Chicken” time! Cocoa has a playmate her own size!! Loved it!
Congratulations to all of the calendar winners!! WooHoo! Can’t wait to see the new contest!
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Thanks for the video…though I would have freaked out if the chickens were chasing me. As a child I was fascinated with old Aunt Jettie’s flock, but Mom always warned that they would “flog” me…so I developed a fear of them.
Wishing you and yours the happiest of Thanksgivings!
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Hugs Granny Trace’
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God Bless each one of you. Have a wonderful day!
P.S. Suzanne, I too have an ex-lax story lol…….you know it really does look like chocolate
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Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family!!!
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Thanks Giving stories. One year my mom cooked dinner for all of us after I got married. We are waiting for the turkey to get done. She did not want the turkey drippings and stuff to leak down to the bottom of her stove from the disposible pan. So she put the pan on one of those cookie sheets that is an even flow. It had a space in between the layers to promote even cooking and not to burn cookies. But it also did not get hot enough to cook the turkey in a timely manner. That was the year of “was the turkey done enough or not” Some went into the microwave just to make sure. lol. Then the next year her oven broke over Thanksgiving and did not get hot enough. Again almost raw turkey. We tease mom about not being able to cook turkey. lol. She is a great cook. But darn those turkeys always get the best of her. Needless to say we spend several Thanksgivings eating out becuase of this. lol.
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My own memories include an aunt, just married that couldn’t boil water deciding to have the family over for her first Thanksgiving. Not much happened – except – she set her oven on fire, burned part of the dinner and didn’t have enough places for everyone to sit. Did I mention she was a new bride. lol
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I thought you looked great!
My favourite are the coco, poky scenes. I so want a dog like coco!
Thanks so much for the laughter at the memories!
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I enjoyed your video and stories. Thank you for sharing them.
Voted again today: 15618 votes.
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I hope you all have a wonderfuld day! I started mine with CITR, of course!! Gonna watch the Macy’s Parade then get ready to head to the m.i.l. house.
VOTE VOTE VOTE!!!!!!!
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Thank you so much for bringing us into your home every day!
I love the video! I can’t get enough of your critters!
I hope your day is all you want it to be!
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May you have a most wonderful and blessed Thanksgiving.
We all have so much to be thankful for, and one of our most special blessings is having good friends.
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE
JO
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Happy Thanksgiving Everyone
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P.S…. that pie looks wonderful!!!!!!
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Love your video! Thanks for sharing your staff with us! I’ve got my peeps voting for you now! I’m so excited! I just voted and was number 15784.:shimmy:
Your Thanksgiving memories are priceless. We used to get sick eating at other’s homes for the holidays. Until we discovered that they too leave their food sitting out all day! Now, I make my own and I don’t eat at their houses. 
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So, now that I’m grounded, having had my dose of “feel good” here, I’ll get back to cooking. Not a great cook, but I make one great dish (other than pie). It’s a casserole with a touch of stuffing base topped with sautéed onions, green peppers, zucchini, mushrooms and tomato, all seasoned with thyme and topped with melted swiss.
Congratulations to the lucky calendar winners. And to Suzanne and everyone here, have a wonderful Thanksgiving! And if you’re from somewhere other than the US, have a great day!
If I can get my sister’s Internet working, I’ll click back here later and share your video with my family. I know they’ll love it. Some of us are city through and through, but I think that almost everyone has a little touch of “country” in them when it comes to enjoying the simples pleasures in life. Chickens in the Road is like a daily meditation. When you walk away from the computer, you feel ready to face the world.
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Loved the video, Suzanne.
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Happy Thanksgiving,
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P.S.- I didn’t get the woodstove but I got a DONKEY!
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Gotta get back to work now! Glad to see so many folks taking a few minutes to peek in to make sure the Chickens are still In The Road!!!
I know mine are!
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I loved the video and David just loved Pokey and Coco playing.
Everyone have a wonderful day today with family and friends!
Deb
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I just looked and I have won a calendar!! That is sooooo exciting…I can’t believe!
Oh! And of course I voted today and David did too.
Deb (just dad-gum excited!)
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Happy Thanks Giving!
Just curious, what do you use the donkey for, besides entertaining your giant puppy?
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Happy Thanksgiving to all.
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And again – Happy Thanksgiving to you and all your varieties of staff for making every day start out delightful.
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Suzanne–I used your recipes for the dressing, cranberry sauce and the pie crust they we all wonderful. I have been making pies for over 50 years, and this is the best crust I every made.
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