Thanksgiving away from home can be a mixed experience. My first one was in the Peace Corps while I was teaching in Ethiopia and turned out quite good. There were several Peace Corps Volunteers in the village of Emdeber. So we banded together for the holiday, invited some of the other teachers at school to join us. So the feast included a canned ham, spicy Ethiopian chicken stew (young chickens are never butchered in Ethiopia) with injera, and Indian curry. There was lots of beer and some honey wine. So we had a very good time and were quite wasted the day afterwards.

This year Judy and I are joining my mother down at the farm on Georgetown Island, along with Judy's brother and his wife. We'll be roasting up two ducks for dinner, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, and a salad. Mother will be baking a sour cream raisin pie and my sister-in-law is baking an apple pie. We're probably bringing some sparkling cider since my sister-in-law doesn't drink alcoholic beverages. We may have a round of bourbon and cider before they arrive!

Charley Noble