Thanksgiving At The Ranch

I appreciate the guest post, Jenny Caldwell

A lot of people have thanksgiving dinner traditions but few of them include a trail ride, cattle round-up, and grilling steaks outside on Thanksgiving. While the grilling part might be fairly common I'm certain the other things are rather unique to my family. We're cattle raising folk and while it's not necessary we love to do a little work in the morning while our special ladies cook a good down home meal for us. Fried chicken, mashed potatoes, sweet potato pie, I drool thinking about it half the time.

We go out while dinner is cooking and we trail ride on horse back. Some of this is for fun and some of it is to check out the other pastures since we normally move the cows and horses around this time. The grass is largely dying in the larger pastures and it's easier to feed them in the smaller ones.

Once we're done messing around with the animals we come in, get cleaned up, and have a good time with the family. Half the time the house is filled with people we haven't seen all year. After dinner we sit down and watch direct star Tv, usually a ball game. Eventually we get together and just talk or play games, depending on what we feel like. The best part of the day is just getting together with people I haven't seen since the last Thanksgiving. It's nice to get in touch with the family.