Thanksgiving Eve and Tuesday 4

Pre-Thanksgiving eve...last night to be exact, we were headed into town to go to the Community Thanksgiving Service at our church.  I told my hubby that the sky had a "pumpkin glow" to it.  I guess I had pumpkins on my mind...or maybe pumpkin pie...

Anyway, we enjoyed the community service very much. Our Pastor gave the sermon, and others from the different community churches shared in the different parts of the service.  It was very nice. We enjoyed singing some of the old familiar Thanksgiving hymns, 

"Come Ye Thankful People, Come", "We Gather Together", and "Count Your Blessings".

It was a wonderful way to prepare our hearts for these days of Thanksgiving.

I thought this flower arrangement was lovely...

This morning hubby and I took our usual walk in the woods, and God's creation displayed its own kind of autumn bouquet:

These leaves are from the common "Turkey Oak" tree, found here in these woods.

It's not a particularly pretty tree, and really the leaves only look this interesting because the early morning sun was shining through them, lighting them up and showing off their autumn colors.

Who says we don't get autumn leaves in Florida?

Here are some other interesting colorful leaves, I think on some immature wild persimmon trees.

I believe I've told you about them before HERE.

Even common ordinary kind of trees can be beautiful when clothed in God's heavenly light.

Yesterday morning I had to go have lab work first thing in the morning, and then we went out to breakfast at one of the local restaurants in Palatka.

Always a blessing to sit across the table from this smiling face.

Maybe he was smiling because he was looking at the bush of hair on top of my head.  I have been without a haircut in a while, and it just seemed to be growing up higher and higher. Thankfully today I was able to get it cut, but no pictures yet. Maybe tomorrow. 

I missed doing the Tuesday 4 Meme yesterday, but I think I will be answering the questions here:

Welcome to Toni Taddeo's Tuesday 4...


Thanksgiving is the subject.

1. What are you most thankful for this year?   I have to say my health and my family's health, and all the blessings God has provided for us this past year. Our kids have a wonderful "new" business, (Dixie Cottage), I am healing from my surgery slowly but surely, we have had a very good year in every way and I am so very thankful.

2.Company or just immediate family?  See my answers in the paragraph below...

3 Cooking or catering? Home or eating out?  "  " " "

4. What's for dessert?                                       " " " "

Here's the answers to the questions above:  So today I've been busy getting things ready for tomorrow. Even though we are just having our immediate family of five here at our house for dinner, there must be pumpkin pies. My sweet DIL is bringing an apple  pie too, along with the turkey and green beans. In addition to the pumpkin pies I am making the sweet potato casserole, stuffing, and jello. Oh, and Scott picked up some rolls. We should have more than enough food to fill us up and make us full to the brim with thankfulness.   

What's on the menu at your house?

Oh, BTW, the "Kids Table" is already set and ready for Lily Grace and her friends.

Tonight for our Thanksgiving eve dinner we had beef burritos with black beans. 

Scott was a little late getting home for supper, so he created his own spin on the burrito, using tortilla chips, some fried potato, the beef, cheese and sour cream. I think I like his concoction better, but it was too late. I was already full with my own burrito.  For some reason his food always looks better to me.

To top off this day and end it on an even more beautiful note, this was tonight's sunset:

I love how it keeps changing every few minutes...God's creative masterpieces never run out...

Even when it is practically just in black and white, it is still magnificent!!

"Oh give thanks to the Lord, for He is good,

For His steadfast love endures forever."

Psalm 107:1

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!