We don't take nice, posed pictures of Thanksgiving dinner at my house, we take pictures of everyone after they've already dug in. The food this year was phenomenal. Seriously. I don't remember the food ever being this delicious. We had turkey, mashed taters, gravy, cranberry salad, stuffing, green bean casserole, poppy seed rolls, olives, fruit salad, cherry pie and pumpkin cheesecake. Yep, we skipped the traditional pies this year.
Did you know that turkeys now come with gravy stuff in them? You mix it with water (I mixed it with chicken broth and added ptarmigan and grouse giblets) and bring it to a boil. It made some damn fine gravy, but it also made me start thinking about the reasoning behind this new insert in the turkeys cavity. And my conclusion is that people are getting too lazy to or are incapable of making gravy. Which makes me sad. It's not a hard process to learn.
This is my "there is glorious amounts of food in front of me and wine in my glass" smile.
We stuffed ourselves so much on the actual dinner that we had to take a two hour break after dinner before even attempting dessert. Well, they had to take a two hour break, I had to take a 6 hour break before I could even attempt desert. I done myself proud.
I swear his face gets sweeter and cuter every single day. Mister Blue is aging so gracefully and he's still as soft-hearted as ever. Just before I made him sit for this picture he was eating snow. I love it when he does that and gets snow on his nose. I have to take a picture really quickly because he licks it off fairly quickly.
We set some snares on Sunday. Naturally I decided to take a picture. The I had the clever idea to...
practically lay down in the snow so I could get this angle. I LOVE IT! Hopefully our labor will pay off with some fur.
These were set on November 30th. The last day in November. Trapping season in our hunting unit begins on November 1st. But up until Friday we did not have snow and for the most of November the river wasn't really safe. Pretty crazy and pretty disappointing. Actually... seriously disappointing. I had three weeks where I was out here in the village to dedicate to trapping before I do some work travel and then spend three weeks with the manfriend out in Montana. What the heck, weather? What the heck?!?!
I thought this was the flipping coolest thing. It looks like a wolverine and fox are best friends and traveling some epic journey together. I'm sure that's not the case, but wouldn't that be magical if it were? They were so fresh and beautiful. I really wish we'd had enough snow to go and attempt to track them and hunt them down on the tundra. But there was no way to get up on the tundra from the river. Someday. Someday, I'll be able to track something.
