We arrived at the farm to find it very autumnal and pretty.

This year Josie, Lisa, and Mama Jo joined us for Thanksgiving. Ez and I got to see them three times in one year!! And they loved the little snowflakes that fell on Friday.

Abby and Dan were home, and Dan’s parents and grandmother also joined us for Thanksgiving dinner. We had 17 people! Ezra’s mother was in heaven with all those people.

I must say, this year I got a Tofurky “vegetarian feast” because Wegman’s in State College was sold out of my usual Quorn roast… and the Tofurky was in fact delicious and much better than the Quorn roast. (Yes, it’s worth mentioning.)

This year’s farm projects included clearing away lots of branches from a line of gigantic pine trees that they had cut down the day after Thanksgiving, working on a long trench that is somehow involved in getting their new furnace operational, moving said furnace (all 3800 pounds of it) onto a concrete slab, and attempting to fix a toilet. I was primarily involved in the first project and photographically documenting the whole shebang.

Ezra knocked himself out and drove the new tractor.

Here he is working on that trench.

…which winds around the house…

… and down between the garden and the pool where it will eventually (I assume) meet up with the furnace.

Needless to say, Ez (and everyone) was plenty hungry for leftovers and tired at the end of the day.

(…but not too tired to play Risk, which I’d never played before.)

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