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Thanksgiving Delight
By Marie Pinschmidt chuckle out of my attempt at fictional humor. Try not heirloom tablecloth. The
In one of my writing courses, we were asked to create to think of my musings while eating your Thanksgiving centerpiece was a grotesque,
a story out of a specific list of words: tablecloth, pumpkin, dinner. On second thought, you might want to share my midlife crisis -s haped
pilgrims, Mayflower, turkey, cranberries, and succotash. story with your guests instead of talking politics. pumpkin flanked by two
Since Thanksgiving is near, I thought you might get a “The large trestle table was draped in Grandma’s cheap porcelain pilgrim
figurines looking as if they
had just straggled from the
Mayflower and crawled on
all fours to Plymouth Rock.
When the feast was finally
laid out before my anxious
family, lack of patience
would not be a problem for me. You see, I knew the
biography of that big Tom turkey.
My mother was unaware I was playing in the garage
when she came out and opened the door of the old spare
refrigerator. She reached in and somehow maneuvered that
turkey into both arms, turned and kicked the door shut with
her foot. I barely stifled a huge gasp when suddenly that
big Butterball slipped right out of her arms and landed
breast down in that stinking old kitty-litter box. She looked
around and failing to see me behind Dad’s workbench,
quickly picked up Old Tom and headed for the kitchen.
I knew in that moment I would never again feel the
same about my mother’s cooking. Even the mincemeat
pie on the sideboard had been made more substantial by
the addition of a box of moldy raisins she found all the
way back in the cupboard. I knew because I had seen her
rinse off the mold. She also didn’t know I was paying
attention when she searched for something red to increase
the quantity of the cranberry salad after Aunt Ida called
to say she and my uncle were also coming for dinner. My
eyes widened in horror when she took that handful of hot
red peppers, chopped them to the proper size and added
them to the cranberry salad.
When my large family gathered at the table to say the
Thanksgiving Blessing, my prayer would be that God
would remove the memory of that litter box so I could, at
least, enjoy the succotash.”
I wish all of you a most tasteful Thanksgiving.
Season Is Here!
Along with season comes the increased
temptation to utilize the golf courses as a park/
playground, but we must ask you to refrain
from any non-golf related access.
Maintenance is performed on all the courses
during the year, so there is equipment and work
being done. In addition, it is a time when there
are more golfers on the course enjoying our
beautiful weather.
Thank you
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