Tonight my mother and I baked two apple pies, one pumpkin pie, and a pear cake. There was serious consideration given to pseudo-pecan according to a recipe from
selkie, but in the end we decided not. This is not a year in which we are knocking ourselves out for Thanksgiving, especially since it will be composed of me and
spatch and my parents and telecommunications. Halfway through the evening, my mother realized she had forgotten to order the celery with her week's groceries and therefore there was none to be cooked down with the mushrooms and shallots into the stuffing base and we just let it go. To be alive at each marker of the year is the important thing.
Earlier this afternoon I visited the memorial to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thanks to the Pequot War, the three people he owned during his tenure as master of Ten Hills Farm were Native American—two a married couple. I do not know that their names are known.

I am with
a_reasonable_man in thinking we could do worse than to revive Fast Day.
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Earlier this afternoon I visited the memorial to John Winthrop, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Thanks to the Pequot War, the three people he owned during his tenure as master of Ten Hills Farm were Native American—two a married couple. I do not know that their names are known.

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