Winter Closes In

November found us in the tiny town of Cottonport, LA. We spent a week there enjoying the last warm days of our Autumn, before spending a damp, drizzly week in Bossier City, LA right next to the casino/horse racing track. From Bossier, we made the short (7 hour) trip home to Boerne to spend Thanksgiving with the family.

The younger brother, an enthusiastic student of HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), graced us with a demonstration of his skills and a blurry picture of his new sword. We ordered it in May from a bespoke weaponsmith in the Slovak Republic for his high school graduation and it finally came in the first week of November.

The man himself and his Sigi Feder

We spent the week at home, preparing for and hosting Thanksgiving. Michael is a great cook and does all the cooking when we’re on the road, so Thanksgiving is my only time to shine in the kitchen. Together we roasted the chickens (instead of Turkey this year), made the stuffed mushrooms, the mashed potatoes, the pecan pie and this Apple Pie Cheesecake from Blue Bowl Recipes.

Our third Thanksgiving together ❤

We left home on Saturday and spent the last week of November in Clarkesville, GA. This is a very pretty little southern town full of huge, white, columned mansions.

Next stop is Omaha (cold), Santa Fe (colder), and Scottsbluff, NE (SUPER cold!!).