Im sitting on a pile of firewood. Wood that took a long time and some tired muscles to stack. I'm in the back yard. It's almost dark. I'm a I'm lmost done with my yearly job of raking leaves before they become a mass of frozen mound of muck in another week when the temperature drops and the snow flies. Yea.... I do a lot of my raking after dark. But that is another story for another day today is about the holiday.

 The sky is filled stars mixed with planes full of people traveling to grandmas or to the brother in law that always talks politics at the Thanksgiving day table.

 I'm tired. The good kind of tired that comes from finishing a day's work....outside. For a long long time my job required me to spend countless hours in small basement room with no windows or any indication about what was happening outside the door...(another story for another day) but now I'm outside every day. I look at the stress.... the rush ....the day to problems that people have ...but I dont have the answers. Everyone has to find their own way. But for me I like to go outside....for a hike, a bike, a walk, an 8 am walk with the dog in the rain waiting for her as she stops in mid crap at every clap of thunder before she can finish and we can go home.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Enjoy your day!

Go outside! 

PS..... Any reverence in this blog to any of my brother in laws either past or present is purely a product of my imagination and doesn't have anything to do with anybody that I may or may not be related to....the names have been changed to protect the innocent!