Actually both the shortbread crust and the salt caramel filling worked out in their respective pies and the pumpkin dumplings resembled kneydlekh far more than I expected even from dropping the dough off a spoon into boiling water, although my mother suggests sage rather than thyme in the brown butter next time. Collective Zoom with my teal-haired godchild involved watching him compare and contrast American and Japanese Fanta in the first-time real time of an unboxing video, albeit with more accidental snorting of carbonation. My niece arriving late in the evening has acquired a sort of garnet swirl throughout her own hair. We have sufficient leftovers that I am already planning my standard after-Thanksgiving dinner of a turkey terrific. I am not at all thankful for multiple days of thought-blinding headache and refuse to be, but I have acquired a surprise of gifts from friends within the last week: two books, a photograph of a poem, a letter by international post. As soon as we got home, Hestia was fed with great eagerness and satisfaction on the turkey we had been promising her all week.

