As I mentioned in a previous post, I've gotten a bit twitchy this year about my birthday. Medical people have been asking me my birthday all year. Then, when I answer, they inject me with something: chemotherapy or immunotherapy drugs, radioactive sugar, or CT contrast material. So it was good to have my birthday come and have it be a cause for celebration—with no injections!
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| My birthday, with no needles! |
Thanksgiving was also a cause for celebration. We had family and friends and lots of good food. In keeping with my custom in recent years, I harvested carrots that day. I otherwise left most of the food preparation to others, ably spearheaded by Gita.
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| Thanksgiving carrot harvest |
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| Plentiful food prepared by others |
We had a full house of family and friends for both Thanksgiving and my birthday. It was wonderful to see everyone, and a great joy to me to have gotten this far. I certainly had things to be thankful for on Thanksgiving, with the improvement in my health over this time last year. It was exhausting, though. I find I have very little stamina, and I keep being surprised at just how quickly I get tired. This week my priority is rest.
That b-day cake looks kind of carrot-colored too, though I bet it's not carrot-flavored (I looove carrot cake). As further evidence that I'm a weirdo, somehow my brain also linked your carrot harvest with Gita "spearheading" the rest of the feast (because carrots are spear-shaped, see). It's also sending me images of "The Carrot Seed" by Ruth Krauss and Crockett Johnson - not as zany as the purple crayon books, but a nice hopeful story nonetheless! Meanwhile, Thanksgiving was a normal teaching day here....
ReplyDeleteWow, amazing carrots and a lovely meal! Thanking God for a relatively ordinary birthday and Thanksgiving for you!
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