Mills River Thanksgiving

We flew up to Asheville Airport on Wednesday morning . Miranda, Richard's girlfriend rode with us. She goes to UNC Chapel Hill and had never ridden in a small plane before. She seemed to enjoy the ride.


Just a photo of the approach to the Asheville Airport - it was a pretty day, but we had a big headwind...yuk. The song "Slow Ride, take it easy" kept playing in my head as I watched the airspeed drop the further west we got...still just about 1 1/2 hours from Raleigh to Asheville, so not too bad!

Everyone was going to have a "traditional" Thanksgiving meal on Thursday somewhere else, so Mom made a really great salmon dish instead. It was just salmon wrapped in puff pastry dough, and stuffed with spinach and cheese. Easy, very pretty and really good!

Here are the "young ones" at the "juvenille" table...


In-depth discussion going on here...

Eddie and Trudi - this was about the 4th take - Trudi's eyes close too quick when you try to get a shot. Nice one.

Denise had to work (night shift), so Bridget and I went over to take her a "to-go" plate and say hello. She took me on a little walking tour of the retirement center. Very nice place, kindof like a resort, not a "rest home" at all.

All my boys together!


This is the following morning - I smoked a ham and turkey for the McCraw gathering on Thanksgiving Day. I started the smoker at about midnight - and here is the pretty result early in the morning. It was yummy - more on that later - gotta go for now.