Ten Turkey Day

Our family Thanksgiving will happen next weekend, due to conflicts and scheduling issues.  Since Thanksgiving is a day to be shared, we did not want to stay home alone today.  Therefore, we signed up as volunteers to work in the kitchen at the Cortland United Methodist Church.

We have had the experience before of volunteering, where there was not really much work to be done.  That was not the case for Gerry and for me today.  We got assigned to a very important task!  Cutting, de-boning, pulling apart the turkeys!   All ten of them.   I guess we were so good at it that no one else got assigned to take over that particular job, so we had to keep at it until they were all done.  To be honest, by that time,  both of us had terrible back aches and pain from the lifting,  bending and standing in the same position.   I am still recovering!

I did see some folks I had not seen in a while, and got a big hug from a young woman whose wedding I conducted quite a few years ago. (that makes me a special person in her life, I could tell).  She was there with her daughter volunteering.  There were also people there from the community that we knew.  We got to eat our meal there, which we helped to prepare.

It was hard work.  Still it was infinitely better than staying home and watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.

So many blessings.  I'm really glad to be able to de-bone ten turkeys!