What's that big yellow thing up in the sky?

...... Oh yeah, it's the sun.  It's been so long since we've had a sunny day, but this day before Thanksgiving is making up for that.  It's still a bit colder than normal, but I'll take a bright sunny day over a cloudy over-cast day. (Note to the weather gods:  Can we please get back to 80 degrees? Or even 75?)

And, on this sunny day before Thanksgiving, we had to drive into town for just one thing from the supermarket.... smoked oysters.  We were just at the market yesterday for last-minute items, but totally forgot this one important ingredient for the dressing. (Up north, it's called stuffing.... down south, it's dressing. I have no idea why.)

My husband has been making the dressing for the turkey for years now... on Thanksgiving, it's an oyster dressing; for Christmas, it's his own creation--- The Big Fat Greek Dressing (with feta cheese and gyro meat that he gets from a Greek restaurant in Houston).  Come to think of it, I'm sure my husband calls it "stuffing," but whatever it is, dressing or stuffing, it's delicious. 

The parking lot in front of the HEB supermarket this morning was standing-room-only.  Nearly every single space was filled. I didn't even go into the store because I knew I'd be looking around and pulling things from the shelves that I don't need this week, but will probably need next week.  Our aim today was to get into the store, get just what was needed for tomorrow, and be able to get on the "10 Items or Less" line.  (I'm not very good at getting less than 10 items.)

So I sat in the car and watched just about every resident of this town going in and out of that supermarket.  When you live in a small town, your mind tells you that you have a small-town number of residents. However, your eyes will tell you differently when you go to the local market the day before a holiday... you'll see just about everybody in town there, and the population won't seem as small as you think it is.

Happy Thanksgiving..... and gobble, gobble to you all. And please, don't go shopping tomorrow on Thanksgiving Day... stay home and enjoy your family and have a piece of pumpkin pie.  Watch some football.... write in your blog.... read a Christmas book...  enjoy the day, the whole day.