Post-Thanksgiving

The 4-H Center is starting the annual 60 day slow-down...we have lots of holiday parties booked, though! There are still a couple of dates available, with the last being December 21st, so book soon. We'll also host a 4-H Retreat on the weekend of the 11th...slow is a relative term.

Thanksgiving was great for me, and I hope it was for all of you...Here's what I did, as if you give a toot.

Wednesday 6:00 am - Duck hunted
Wednesday 11:30 am - leave Edenton for Alabama
Wednesday 11:30 pm - Arrive at the Luker Family Compound, sleep on couch
Thursday 7:00 am - Wakeup to two schnauzers licking my exposed fingertips
Thursday 8:30 am - groan at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade
Thursday 12:00 pm - arrive at Country Club to eat buffet with family. Stuffed my head with oysters, shrimp, prime rib, turducken, a vegetable, and pecan pie
Thursday 2:30 pm - settle in to sleep in recliner.
Thursday 3:30 pm - awake and begin to wish we had the usual leftovers, lounge around for hours on end
Thursday 9:30 pm - go sleepytime
Friday 4:00 am - arise, exercise, feed, and load the vehicle for the Auburn - Alabama game
Friday 6:15 am - watch my dad oversleep, then arise.
Friday 7:00 am - board the car and set out towards Jordan Hare Stadium West, in Tuscaloosa, AL.
Friday 11:00 am - arrive, park, and immediately get misdirected towards the restrooms. I would have done the same to an Alabama fan at Auburn, though.
Friday 1:30 pm - Iron Bowl kickoff. I'll spend the next hour watching Alabama trample my Auburn Tigers and see my dad fall down a bleacher or two, in his own attempt to recover an Alabama fumble.
Friday 3:30 pm - Auburn mounts its comeback.
Friday 5:30 pm - Auburn beats Alabama, overcoming the largest Auburn deficit in 118 years of football. I'll call this game "Choke Bama Choke".
Friday 9:15 - Arrive at home and immediately fall asleep.
Saturday 8:00 am - Wakeup, exercise and feed.
Saturday 10:00am - head to Auburn to find a scoreboard shirt from the game, take pictures of Toomer's Corner, and eat at Country's Barbecue.
Saturday 3:00 pm - return to home, sleep.
Saturday 5:00 pm - begin packing, and the prepare bison steaks on the grill while the rest of the fam apears to be sick or sick of it...
Saturday 10:00 pm - sleep
Sunday 4:30 am - arise, exercise, feed.
Sunday 6:00 am - depart and spend the next 14 hours in a car and traffic.
Sunday 8:00 pm - return to Edenton, the Columbia.

The most important thing about the previous 30 lines of drivel was that Auburn beat Alabama in the Iron Bowl. Auburn "allegedly" couldn't do it. But as allegations have gone for this Auburn football team, even this one was scoffed at. Against a good team in a hostile environment, Auburn cemented it's place in history. War Eagle...

PS - I have used a lot of vacation time to waterfowl hunt...the ducks are around, you just have to know where to go...I have taken more ducks this year (already) than I have the past two years...so buy a duck stamp and licenses and go "grocery shopping"...We feasted on redhead duck last night...they really do taste like bacon!

Enjoy the day...