{"id":40028,"date":"2023-11-18T23:50:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-19T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=40028"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:13:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T05:13:40","slug":"talking-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/talking-turkey\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Talking turkey at our house: this one was delicious. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I’m still a little — just a little — woozy from the “acute viral labyrinthitis” that hit me last week. Instead of writing a post this week, I’m traveling back in time to Thanksgiving 2016.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

November 24, 2016<\/strong><\/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 show up at our house. One arrives in a shopping bag, all plucked and cleaned and frozen, ready to be stuffed.<\/p>\n

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Talking turkey with Christina . Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/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

More about food at “The Kettle Corn That Show Up in our Pandemic Shut-Down Food Order<\/a>.”\u00a0 More warm-blooded animals at “At Pt. Reyes — Animals Wild and Tame.”<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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Christina’s 2012 turkey. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The 2013 bird. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Turkeys at our house in 2014: live in our back yard. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/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<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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