Thanksgiving 2025 - Good Morning!

Thursday, November 27, 2025 

Thanksgiving is here and were getting a little sun to go with it. Snowed yesterday overnight. The above picture is the view from our front stoop.

This is the view from the back stoop. 

Tuned in to the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade at 8:30 am. Some highlights:

Cynthia Erivo opened the parade.

Debbie Gibson sang my favorite Debbie Gibson song, Only In My Dreams. 

Darlene Love sang Christmas (Baby Please Come Home). 

The Rockettes performed. 

And, as always, Santa showed up at the end. 

We got the turkey in at noon. 

The dog show came on after the parade....

Which was my cue to play Puppies Are Forever by Sia. This song drives Dale nuts but I usually play it for him to help ring in the holiday music season with the promise I won't play it again until next year. 

Also got started on the Stribs turkey coloring contest. 

Thanksgiving 2024

Thursday, November 28,  2024

Made a Bloody Mary...

...and turned on the parade at 8:30.

Sylvester burrowed into a pile of pillows making a little fort for himself.

He came out eventually and made himself comforatable on whichever of our laps was available.

Dale supervised the making of the feast but I helped quite a bit. 

Mom came over around 2 pm and we ate at 3:00. All in all it turned out great. 

Dale seems to think I do a great job carving the turkey. I feel like I'm hacking away with an ax to the carcass but I guess I do okay since there's barely any meat on it when I'm finished. There's gotta be a youTube video out there that shows the most efficient and perfect way to cut it up. Maybe I'll look for that sometime. 

Mom brought over a pumpkin pie that some friends from church had made. She said they usually make about 100 pies every year to sell to people for Thanksgiving. It was delicious and one of the better pumpkin pies I've ever had. That's sayin' something cuz I LOVE pumpkin pie. 

She also brought over some port wine. Dale didn't think he'd ever had any before. I poured some for us after the pie. Mom and Dale didn't like it. They said the alcohol level was too hight (turned out it was 20%) and they just didn't like the taste. I thought it was fine but what do I know. 

Thanksgiving 2023 - The Parade

Thursday, November 23, 2023

Mom and I arrived yesterday at Dulles around 4 pm. Pete picked us up. 

It was good to see everyone including, Thora Peaches and...

Loki Lani.

Watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. 

As always there were lots of cool floats. 

Also, appearances by Cher...

The Rockettes...

...and the Singing Christmas Tree (Mom really got a kick out of this one)...

...and, of course, Santa Claus. After the parade we watched the dog show.

Thanksgiving Day 2021 - The Parade

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Woke up early this morning, about 5:00. Laid in bed for a while. Finally got up at 7:00 and ran into Pete who was on his way to the gym. Didn't see anyone else until Mom got up around 8:45 which really stunk because I couldn't figure out the coffee maker! 

Emma made blueberry muffins and we watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade at 10:00.

I'm getting old because I only recognized 2 of the many musical acts who performed. 

The floats were more familiar to me than the people. 

Note: Top photo by Dawn Parson and appeared on usinterior@instagram. 

Holiday Season 2019 - Thanksgiving Day

Thursday, November 28, 2019

Happy Thanksgiving! It was a lovely and wonderful day of rest, food, & family. 

Mom, the kids, and I turned on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade this morning and had a fun time with that. 

The winds in New York City were probably the strongest they've ever been on the day of the parade. 

For this reason the balloons had to stay quite close to the ground. 

The ended up being a big advantage because it was easier to see them. 

During commercials I had some holiday magazines to look through. 

Eighties pop queen Debbie Gibson performed.

As did Billy Porter and, of course, many others. 

The kids love Diary of a Wimpy Kid.

And I'm a fan of Sponge Bob Squarepants. 

The kids were tickled to see Santa Claus.

So, I guess we can safely say the holiday season has begun!

Dinner was fantastic. Pete and Steph always do such a great job. 

The only thing that would have made the day better would have been to have Dale with us!