Today I am taking the matriarch to the dentist to get her six teeth cleaned. They called with a cancellation appt or she would have had to wait until April. Dentists are busy I guess. And as a life long smoker she does not have many teeth left. So I am grateful we could get her in.
So while you are waiting for me to get back from the dentist, pop over and read this weekends TKG newsletter. Have a look at this weekends photos and go on a farm walk-about with me. I love writing the newsletter! It narrows my focus somehow.
Cecilia at the The Kitchen’s Garden at Substack
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November 28 th is Thanksgiving which all the stores wish us to skip straight over because it is not a gift giving day. It is a day for giving thanks and pigging out – my pigs do very well on that day.
So we have all month to think about what we are thankful for.
Do you practice gratitude? Giving thanks. I never really have. I have a naturally optimistic nature ( except for the days I don’t) so hopefully I am grateful on a subliminal level. This month I am going to make an effort and make a list of things I give thanks for. Maybe a new one each day!? Is that going too far?
While I am waiting in the dentists waiting room on tiny hard chairs – pushed too close together. (And my sense of smell is coming back in wide swathes now after my continued sniff therapy so I will need distracting) I am going to create a November Thanksgiving Calendar.
Today is the 4th of November so I will make a list of 24 more things to be grateful for. Things I give thanks for. Firstly I give thanks for being able to jam my tongue firmly in my cheek but I will try hard to take this seriously. Should there be rules?
I would love to give thanks for peas. But do peas count?
Today I will give thanks for still being able to bend over and touch my toes. Is that a good thing to give thanks for? I vote yes.
Am I allowed to have another moan about daylight saving? That’s not very grateful is it.
It is raining. A very nice solid spring rain in autumn. It is 63f/17c. So the fields are greening up! The weather is upside down.
Have a gorgeous day.
Do you want to join me in making a thanksgiving calendar? I am going to literally put one item a day into my Google calendar. Which, thankfully, will make my life look very active and busy.
Have a lovely day!
Celi
The Kitchen's Garden 
21 responses to “A Thanksgiving Calendar for November”
I am grateful that my life is simple, and circumscribed, and plain. How refreshing to not be able to choose which of many glamorous, far flung destinations I will spend a small fortune visiting, only to be laid low with Delhi-belly. How lovely to not be forced into ever-expanding, performative ‘celebrations’ of various holidays, because “This year has to be the best ever”. How nice it is that I can reverse the flow and send out good things instead of wishing to draw them into my life. I am grateful for my contentment.