Author: Steve

Cool calm and sunny outside.  Warm comfy and aromatic inside.  Food cooking all day.  An eight-pound turkey for just the two of us, and our two friends who are recuperating a broken bone at home in their place.  We take a couple plates to them.  Football.  Birds at the feeders.  Plenty to be thankful for.  The Christmas Tree on the deck getting decorated.  Our tradition at the Louisville House was to light the Christmas lights Thanksgiving Night.  We continue that tradition here, even with our lesser scale.  Speaking of scales, I hope everyone remembered to set their bathroom scales back five pounds to Thanksgiving time like we did.

Happy Thanksgiving everybody.

I don’t know all the different kinds of cactus that can grow here in Texas.  This looks like it might be a Peruvian Apple Cactus (Also known as Night Blooming Cereus).  We had a small one in our yard for a few years.  It really does only bloom at night, and each bloom only lasts for one night.

I read that the fruit is edible and tasty for humans or wildlife.  The cactus gets really big, and this fruit is way out of reach for me though.

It’s the one in the middle.  Hummingbirds and butterflies love it.

Every January, I cut it back to knee-high to keep it compact and healthy.  Every summer it grows back even bigger.  We’ll see if it gets taller than the house next year!

The first batches of cranberries.

Judy offers homemade cranberries to anyone that wants them.

A lot of people want homemade cranberries.