Can't think of a catchy title!

Yesterday evening Thomas took Eler Beth to get that asparagus he found, as I mentioned in my previous entry, and he took along his shotgun because, afterall, it is turkey season.  Sure enough he came home with an 18-pound gobbler.  Beautiful bird!  A guy he works with got one last week and gave it to us, (His was even bigger than the one Thomas got) because he likes to hunt, but his wife doesn't like to cook wild meat.  So he gives us most of anything he gets when he hunts and just asks that I send him some of the finished product!

I do love wild turkey.  Some people don't like the way it tastes, but I think they just don't know how to fix it.  Thomas always takes off the skin when he cleans it, and I think that makes the meat milder tasting.  Some people we know only smoke their turkey meat, but I bake mine.  I season it just as I would one from the store and I bake it in an oven bag.  The meat is much sweeter than a store-bought turkey.  Probably because of their diet.  The ones we get from this property have a diet of soybean and corn.  I'm not usually a big fan of turkey, and when I get one I am usually fixing it for a big group of people because neither Thomas nor I like turkey leftovers much.  But when it's wild turkey, I'm just a little bit stingy!!  I will eat those leftovers in a heart beat.  That is, if Thomas or the kids don't beat me to it.  Now that we have two in the freezer, though, we're thinking of fixing one for his brother and wife when they come up to visit.

They went back out this morning, taking Andrew with them.  Drew hadn't had a chance to turkey hunt yet this season, and you can only get one.  But they didn't see any.  I guess they'll have to go back in the evening about the time they went last night.

I stayed home and had fun watering all my newly planted goodies early in the day.  It was so nice and crisp this morning.  Thomas and the kids each stepped outside preparing to leave and commented on how chilly it was, and there I was in shorts and a t-shirt, barefoot, watering plants!  I had to laugh at them.  I would love for it to be cool like that every morning.  It could warm up during the day, but I love those cool mornings.   I'm hot-natured, anyway (must have very rich blood), and Thomas, being from Alabama, is the exact opposite.  The kids waver in between.  I guess when "normal" people would be cold, then they're cold, (I would be comfortable then and Thomas would be freezing), and when "normal" people would be hot, then they're hot, (and of course I would be sweltering and Thomas would be comfortable.) --  Thomas and I have learned to compromise on the temperature of the house and vehicles in the almost 19 years of our marriage!

I played with the dogs for awhile and puttered around in the back yard.  Then I came in, lay down on the couch and took a little nap.  Then T and the kids got home and I got up, fixed lunch and helped them get ready for a fishing trip.  Andrew decided not to go and retreated his room, video games and friends on the phone.  Thomas and Eler Beth were supposed to be taking a friend of ours and his son fishing.  This friend, Larry, doesn't fish much, but his son, Sean, (Eler Beth's age) loves to fish, and we had taken him with us on our camping trip to Patoka Lake last year.  So Larry had asked Thomas if they could go fishing with him and Eler Beth today.  (Btw, Sean is Eler Beth's boyfriend!!  Don't tell her I told you!  She gets crushes easily, and he has been her main one for over a year now.  I think it is mutual.  They are in our congregation and Sean's mom takes Eler Beth with them every Wednesday evening to go skating.  Wednesdays are dollar days and they go every week.   Usually there are other friends of ours that go, too.)  Well, anyway, when they were on their way to pick up Larry and Sean, Thomas got a call from Larry that they had to cancel.  Tracie (the mom) had stepped on a metal stake (I don't yet know how), and was at the emergency room.  So as Thomas was on the phone with me telling me this a call came through from his friend Tony (where he and Eler Beth had "played" last Sunday) who wanted to know if they wanted to go fishing.  So they still got their fishing trip for today, and they aren't home yet.

I worked in my yard (couldn't get myself to do any housework), did some shopping and read for awhile.  Now I'm going to play on the computer for a little while, then get ready for bed.  They have another fishing trip planned for tomorrow afternoon with another friend of ours who doesn't get to go fishing very often, and I probably won't go since his wife isn't going.  I'll have another afternoon to myself.

Well, more later.