{"id":25957,"date":"2016-11-24T00:01:52","date_gmt":"2016-11-24T08:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=25957"},"modified":"2016-11-24T00:01:52","modified_gmt":"2016-11-24T08:01:52","slug":"turkeys-at-our-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/turkeys-at-our-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Turkeys at Our House, Dead and Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Turkeys at our house:\u00a0this one was delicious. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Hope you are having a great Thanksgiving surrounded by friends, family or both — of every political persuasion<\/a>. As always there’s a lot to be thankful for, but today I’m feeling especially grateful for that most American of birds, the turkey.<\/p>\n

Every year around this time a bunch of them\u00a0show up at our house. One arrives in a shopping bag, all plucked and cleaned and frozen and ready to be stuffed. <\/p>\n

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Christina and her 2011 turkey. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The other turkeys arrive in our back yard on their own two feet, fully feathered and wattled. (Honest, they show up in our neighborhood right around Thanksgiving as if to\u00a0. . . what? Guilt us? Apparently the invasion of turkeys<\/a> in California neighborhoods is the result of importing by the state.)<\/p>\n

Our daughter Christina has been the Thanksgiving cook for several years now. But this year, with Jon laid up with a broken ankle and Christina distracted by wedding plans for next May, I forgave myself for taking the ultimate shortcut yesterday: I drove over to a local supermarket and bought a ten-pound turkey with all the trimmings for 99 bucks.<\/p>\n

When I searched my digital photo collection the other day for “turkey,” these photos turned up.<\/p>\n

Read more about\u00a0Thanksgiving\u00a0gratitude<\/a>. And about what I did with\u00a0my old wedding dress<\/a> a few Thanksgivings ago.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Christina’s 2012 turkey. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 2013 bird. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Turkeys at our house in 2014: live in our back yard. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A search for “turkey” in my photo collection brought up this photo of Jon in an Istanbul cafe. Turkey was not on the menu. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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