Thanksgiving 2010

Beef soup on Wednesday, delicious!

The bird.

The helpers!!! (Not)

Loading up on coffee with the new Keurig.

Green Bean casserole.

Making the deviled eggs look sooo professional!

The gravy Queen!

Molly did the carving.

The happy family.....

and sooo much food, but very tasty and great for leftovers!

John's deer.

We had a fantastic meal on Friday...I had to work on Thanksgiving so we just celebrated the next day.  It was pretty slow on Thursday..just one helicopter transfer to DHMC first thing in the morning with an MI patient.  Molly and I got up early on Friday and got everything ready...bought a plain old Hannaford's bird (15 lbs.) instead of the expensive fresh Stonewood farms turkey and it was delicious!  Lots of other goodies too and Martha joined us at 4 pm.  John called just before this to say that he got a deer!  It was a nice 5 pointer that he shot below Dan Boyce's home.  (Dan got his deer on our land or somewhere between our land and Robin's)  He was very excited!  131.5 lbs.  I'm also including a little video of the gravy Queen.  Martha always makes gravy and it's always good.  Here are some pictures.

John's 2010 deer

So here are more pictures of John's deer.  It was 5 points, 131.5 pounds, shot on Dan Boyce's property.

More pictures of my visit to NH

Here's some breakfast pictures!  Molly comes home tomorrow, yeah!  Making homemade beef soup with crusty bread and pumpkin cake for dessert!  Saturday will be a fish dish that is out of this world...tilapia, baked with white wine, lemon and butter, layered over tomatoes and topped with freshly grated parmesan cheese!  Anybody want to join us?

Yesterday spent the morning in Rutland, grocery shopping then home to unpack everything then back to Rutland to the hospital Auxilary dinner.  Pam and I submitted a request for funding for the SANE program to buy scrubs and they gave us $500!  We also got to eat a delicious meal at the country club!  Not bad!  Pam is off to the big apple today on the train....I'd really like to do that again!

SANE prep course

So the SANE A prep course was a hit!  We had 40 people and got great reviews and best of all Pam and I took our national certification exam the week after the course and WE PASSED !!!! 

Lunch out with Molly a few weeks ago

A few Saturday's ago I went over to New London and visited with Molly.  We drove around and checked out the shops in Lebanon, had a great day!  This restaurant was in New London.  We had breakfast early in the day and were still pretty full so just asked for an appetizer each....as you can see there was more than enough to eat!  We ended up getting a doggie bag to go.

Camp in West Haven

John took some nice pictures of the camp in West Haven.  They are really getting psyched about deer season.  2 nice buck's on our land (as seen by Dan's camera)

pumpkin carving

Molly came home on Friday....was able to finish her Bio lab early and arrived home before me.  I had the SANE conference at the hospital all day on Friday.  It went really well, we had 40 people come from all over the Northeast.  The speaker was great.  Now just have to pass my SANE certification exam next Thursday....we'll see!!   Molly's back in NH tonight. Had a safe but rainy ride.  We sent her home with some left over lasagna for dinner.  She has a busy week and then a show at UNH on Sunday.

Kacee is lame...sore back hind leg, ?abscess or tendon, not sure.  Ken the farrier is coming on Wednesday to take off her shoes and check for an abscess.  I'm soaking it twice a day in Epsom salts and hot water.  Today it's more swollen, but she seems to be bearing weight better.  It's always something!!

We carved pumpkins and roasted the seeds....delicious!  Had a great homecooked meal for Molly on Saturday, fresh Turkey breast, rice and corn, brownies for dessert.    Molly got a 91% on her Psych exam!!!  Very psyched!