Happy Thanksgiving

      What  childhood memories come rushing to mind when you think about Thanksgiving???                                                                          

   For me there are many .. but one that came to mind this week was when I was about seven yrs old, grandpa & grandma LeCrone (Will & Ella) still lived on the old homestead out of Helena. We lived on the Finny place out of Ringwood.

   Everyone came from miles away for the family Thanksgiving gathering. Great aunts , uncles and countless cousin’s, grandma’s, grappa's you name it they were there. Also friends and neighbors from all around.

      Everyone come early stayed late, some from far away came the night before and spent the night .. there was pellets all over the place even on the porches. Everyone cooked and helped cleanup and played games like horse shoes, red rover, tag …even the grownup, we had so much fun!

 

   One time after a really hard game of horseshoes everyone was laying around under the trees telling stories…some times there would be snow on the ground at Thanksgiving so it was snowball fights and building snowmen.. and running in to warm ourselves around the pot bellied stove in the kitchen . 

One thing I miss is the big farm kitchen .. we gathered around the table to eat and play games.

Ok, back to the story…. the cousins from NM was here and we went up stairs and was playing with the old phone, you know where you wind the handle to call the operator.. well our coz CE wanted us to line up all the way down the stairs holding hands and he would touch the phone battery and we would see what would happen. WOW!, he thought it was so funny all of us got shocked!!! But whoever was the lucky one on the end got it the most..yep, you got it ..that was me. I can remember that feeling to this day.

   But what fun we had.. it was a workout for our angels I’m sure ,,to keep us all safe. 

So what about your memories??? Share with us!  Have a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving!