Our formula for the best Thanksgiving possible
1. Me, my partner and our son.
2. No annoying extended family.
3. Perfect weather, sunny and 65 degrees.
4. No turkey, just great dim sum in Chinatown.
5. All natural fruit smoothies for dessert.
Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!
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If so, here's mine. I already had three TG dinners before yesterday, so I had no desire to do it again. This is with relatives and friends who had traveling or other dinners to do on TG.
Spent yesterday all alone with my kitties, which I loved. The quiet was wonderful and even the neighbors were gone. Total silence, quiet, peace. Just beautiful, with the snow and all. OK, one friend was here for part of the day, but he later left to go to Manhattan for TG dinner with his cousin.
Then I worked backwards from the “the best thing about Thanksgiving is the leftovers” concept: what kind of leftovers are best?
CHINESE!
So I made chicken kung pao, and was it ever good. I woke up craving it this a.m.!
Then—and this is the best part—some wild turkeys arrived in my front yard! They were beautiful. You know, a lot of times wild turkeys can look kinda’ scroungy, but these guys were beautiful, with the sunlight reflecting off their beautiful feather colors. I had once read up on what wild turkeys eat, so I knew I couldn’t go wrong with a bag of peanuts. I threw practically a whole bag out there and they had a ball. Got hit in the head a few times with some peanuts, but that didn’t scare them away.
I liked how they came to the front yard, like, "Neener, neener, neener, we're still alive." Nuthin' like an in-your-face turkey. 
After providing food for the turkeys, I thought about my atypical Thanksgiving and the irony of providing the turkeys with a feast.
Cher