The surprise hit of Thanksgiving dinner this year was the paper tablecloth, which was printed with puzzles and turkey cartoons to color (boxes of crayons were distributed around the table). I had the pleasure of sitting next to a Hillendale Elementary School student, and we had great fun creating and pronouncing nonsense words from the hidden-word puzzle (SUBLATS!).
Across the table, the boy's parents were deeply engrossed in the game where you try to create more squares than your opponent out of a grid of dots. Dearest Partner sketched a rabbit and a cat on the tablecloth, then switched gears and helped a couple of kids tune their ukulele.
We were very fortunate in the timing of our journey to Perkasie for the Thanksgiving celebration. As we were zooming up the Northeast Extension in the early afternoon, we saw the aftermath of a chain-reaction crash involving several cars on the southbound side of the highway. Traffic was backed up for miles, and it looked like emergency vehicles were having trouble getting to the site because it's in a construction zone without shoulders. On our return trip at about 6 p.m. the roadway was as clear as could be.
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