Happy Thanksgiving everyone & Thank you for the call Nate. I got your message and I hope you had a terrific one too - and yes we did have turkey... Actually turkey breast - there's no way I could fit a whole turkey in our little 10 x 15 x 8.5 inch oven LOL - but it was gooood so thanks for asking! Mrs A made turkey, stuffing, corn & yams and we had cranberry sauce and my infamous pumpkin pie I made yesterday for today's dinner. It tasted good - even though half the filling sloshed out and burned all over the oven after that big powerboat "waked" (rolled) us - what remained was yummy. Some greens and crescent rolls would have made it perfect but we'd have been to full so it was satisfying as it was.

Cooking and watching the Lions lose - a traditional Thanksgiving day but did they have to lose with such gusto!?!? Our reception here is amazing - it was picture perfect T.V. and temps during the day were in the 60s.

It was kind of funny because while I was in the galley cooking I was watching the tide get lower from the galley window and a small boat pulled up next to the swamp grass. A woman dressed in rubber boots, gloves, broad brimmed hat and armed with some tools started sifting through the tidal area and started filling up a bushel and bucket with what I assume were oysters and crabs. She continued doing this for a good part of the morning and afternoon so I can only assume that this area is quite fruitful as far as shellfishing. Her "traditional" Thanksgiving day (I'm assuming) was more fruitful than our watching our poor lions lose.

Seemed strange today to be making out Christmas cards on the boat. I don't have all the addresses that I need and my student addresses that I wanted to send cards to are at home too (can I get another recking frekin smecker!?!?) Ali & Nate if you could help me out and email me I'd appreciate it!