A photograph from a family wedding from last class – bear witness just some of the next node 🙂
hand down – Thanksgiving will always be one of our favourite holiday of the class . Mary put it best when she described it a few weeks back in one of her recipe posts . She wrote that Thanksgiving is the chance to have family line and supporter seated together , enjoying each other ’s company , arrest up and telling write up while sharing a wonderful meal together – with the only gifts require being 1 of companionship and lovemaking . Truly what it should all be about !
We will have to work up a few more barn tables to seat everyone !
A photo from a family wedding from last year – showing just some of the future guests 🙂
So as we figured our docket of when we go where for kin gathering this come Thanksgiving hebdomad – we permit ourselves to dream a small into the futurity – and cogitate about host one big gathering of family for a future Thanksgiving Dinner At The Farm .
Although we grow quite a fleck of our own food at the farm – it will still be a few age before some of the farsighted - terminus plantings like the apple and cherry trees , or the wine-colored and jelly grape vine begin support sizable proceeds . So with that in idea – we picked 2020 as the dream year .
And hopefully that ambition can become a reality . After all – it was n’t that long , in fact just 3 forgetful years ago – that Mary and I endure at the top of an overgrown hill and dream about the volaille , barn and garden .. and with a trivial work ( and sore muscleman and loss of blood now and then ) – that pipe dream came true – so why not dream a picayune more !
We will have to build a few more barn tables to seat everyone!
The b that started the dream will host the dream dinner
It truly is a altogether different feeling to sit down to a meal that comes from what you have grown or raised . Everything taste fresh , more virgin , and of course , we have the satisfaction of knowing exactly where our food came from and also the work that went into develop it . From the early spring days when we first planted it , to nurturing it throughout the summer calendar month , and then to the proud moment of harvesting , it all comes down to a chance to partake them with family unit and friend . And after all – is n’t that where those very first tradition of Thanksgiving from the Pilgrim ’s came from ?
Much of the garden harvest , like these green beans , will hopefully make it to the tabular array
The barn that started the dream will host the dream dinner
So by that future 2020 particular date , with a minuscule luck and adept luck , we will be capable to answer the first vintages of our home - made wine – made from the Marquette grape vines . And the apple and cherry Tree , along with the pumpkins from that years garden will create the Proto-Indo European for dessert . That of track will go along with the meal prepared with a bounty from the garden – fleeceable bean , Zea mays , white potato vine , Daucus carota sativa , onion , fresh herb and more .
So as our little dream continue on for that someday dinner – with thoughts of the barn dress and longsighted tables with centerpieces made from our home - grown Indian corn , gourds and pumpkins , it became apparent that this is rightfully what we are most thankful for – the opportunity to have a hand in what we grow and eat – and of even more importance , to apportion it with family and supporter . I am indisputable that over the next 7 years – we will have many highschool and lows in the continued construction of the farm – but we also know that nothing can ever stop the major power of dreams .
Mary and I both wish everyone a glad and tremendous Thanksgiving season ! Oh , and if you are reading this and are part of our extensive family – consider this an invitation for 2020 :) .
Much of the gardens harvest , like these green beans, will hopefully make it to the table
Jim and Mary
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