Our Pilgrim Fathers' Thanksgiving Turkey

I love Thanksgiving and I love turkey. It is the easiest of meats to cook as long as you remember to clean it out first. Then, a little salt, some butter and into the roaster. The lengthy cooking time gives one the opportunity to reflect and to give thanks.  I am thankful for what we did have. The times at 8 Point, the "Real Live Brady Bunch," the Halloweens and Christmases, the can of beans in the mixer box, this cookbook, Paige and Andrew. All of the little times, and days, and conversations and our last trip to Chicago at Easter. The email I sent to him right before chemo telling him how much I loved him, his response saying the same to me. For all of the new and renewed friendships this experience has brought, and yes, even for Facebook. For every day, every moment, I am thankful for it all.

Episode Note: "The Un-underground Movie" Greg decides to make a film for his history project about the the first Thanksgiving. He enlists the help of the whole family to act in and to create elaborate sets and the costumes for the production. Too many cooks spoil the turkey, as it were, when everyone believes they also have a say in the creative direction of the film, making Greg wish he had never conceived the idea in the first place. Wanting to quit, but able to muster the same courage of the early settlers to carry on, Greg manages to reign in his out of line cast and crew. They wind up making an over dramatic cheesy silent movie of the suffering of the pilgrims through the harsh winter and failing crops and their relationship with the native Americans that culminates in the sharing of the first Thanksgiving meal. I gave thanks when it ended.