Snow, wonderful snow

The snow queen.

Alex, Gabriel, Gael, Lucien, Yves.

Perfect snowball material. We went to the river park to have a snowball fight. Alex, Yves, Lucien, Gabriel and Gael had a great time playing snowball tag and sliding down the slides on their sleds.

The Best Breakfast

Pie and Hot Chocolate! We certainly had lots of pie left over for breakfast. Yum!

Lucien's Feast

Lucien decorated the table.

All ready, food and appetites.

Bon appetit!

A little of everything...lots of leftovers.

Yves' perspective...

Gabriel's pumpkin from the pottery in Felanitx.

It's a wonderful life.

Happy Thanksgiving.

A Walk before the Feast

We all went for a walk on the Highline, while the turkey roasted. It was so warm and lovely out.

Yves and Gael

Lucien and Gael

The sun setting all too early.

Happy Thanksgiving

This Thanksgiving was one with many plans that all ended with us having a lovely dinner at home. Greg bought the last turkey at the coop. Dorina generously let us have it. Lucien was very keen on the whole Thanksgiving feast. The night before Dorina brought us a lovely pumpkin bread that we served for breakfast with hot chocolate. It made a festive start to our day.
Then she surprised us with a pie as they headed out to her sisters! It was still warm!

For dinner, Lucien and I started to prepare last night . Lucien wrote out the menu. Surprisingly we were only really missing the brussel sprouts, after the turkey came. So I ran out to find them. We made the stuffing and the cranberry sauce before going to bed. The morning flew by but all went well. And everything came out lovely.Gael decided to finish his writing exercises, the whole last half of the alphabet. I think he was inspired by the thought that he could have a blog.
I made two pies, a cranberry and a pumpkin. Then stuffed the turkey while the pies cooked. Put together the corn pudding, the sweet potato biscuits ready to go, roasted the delicata squash, sweet potatoes and regular ones. Yves and Lucien set Gael and Gabriel up with email addresses and blogs. Time for a break.

Tuesday dinner

I can't believe we all managed to get together, well excepting K and Camille!
M came home with Gabriel from NYU Chorus. Yves came a little later from opera. And Dorina and C even later from violin. Just in time for dinner.
Later Dorina brought out the llama fleeces she had been given, a mountains worth! So beautiful.
We filled bags to pass around to our fiber obsessed friends, who spin and felt.

A Monday

Good Morning. Today there is piano for Gabriel and Lucien. Pottery for Yves and I. Annie workshop for Gabriel. Carmen fitting and rehearsal for Yves. Oh, Monday! There were also the electricians finishing up a job that of course turned out bigger than planned, 50% worth! Spider man twins, this somehow doesn't ever happen but there they were in matching pyjamas!

Yves' pottery experiment, pennies, phase one, after low fire. The pennies have seperated from their tin coats. The bottom has made strange white mounds. Next step, high fire which will melt the metal. To be continued...

A beautiful finish to a day. Lucien made Far Breton and Hot Chocolate, consumed in front of TNG.