We learned a lot that day and had fun too

Television shows always manage to work in a very special lesson for all the holiday episodes, as if meaning was just waiting around until late November to pop up. The messages are especially contrived because they are not usually heeded year-round. Yesterday, however, I experienced a very special Thanksgiving miracle. Dad (post-surgery) and I were walking at Fenner Arboretum, when we saw two deer off the trail. This being an arboretum (a small one, at that) in the middle of the city, these deer were not very freaked out and continued foraging, while we stopped to stare. Somewhere behind us, though, was a constant rustling that could not have been attributed to squirrels or wind. We turned and looked and saw several wild eastern turkeys. For ten or fifteen minutes, we just stared - first at the deer, then at the turkeys. I had never seen a wild turkey before, and this, just days before T-day, had to have meant something. Unlike television, though, the meaning was not made clear by a narrator, or symbolism, or Bob Saget. But STILL....

Otherwise, I spent all last week in Lansing, helping out with Dad and taking care of the cat while Mom was out of town. It was a very relaxing week. I watched a lot of movies. I saw a few friends, but mostly I stayed in with the parents and just relaxed. We had our first snow fall on the day Dad had his knee surgery, so we made a fire in the fire place and everything was very warm and cozy.