I got to thinking about the weather yesterday while making the short drive out to Red Haw for Thanksgiving dinner with Bonnie and Alan, Mary Ellen and Jan, and four lively dogs. Fantastic meal, cooked by Bonnie; good company and conversation; happy pups.
Among many things to be thankful for --- including the weather: Mild and sunny totally lacking in the drama late November weather sometimes can impose on Iowans. I can't count the times I've slipped and skidded and shivered while trying to get from one place to another to celebrate.
This is one of my favorite Thanksgiving greeting cards, postmarked Midland, S. Dak., Nov. 22, 1915, and sent to my grandmother, Jessie (Brown) Miller, by her best friend (and niece of a similar age), Ida (Brown) Rogers. The weather had been fine and mild out in the middle of South Dakota during November, Ida reported in her note on the back, and she had been cooking daily for the six men involved in hauling hay on the Rogers ranch.
"Who brings sunshine into the life of others has sunshine in his own." Ain't that the truth? Happy Thanksgiving, a little belatedly, to all bearers of sunshine.
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