Thanksgiving At Sertoma

Thanksgiving at Sertoma starts early. The Ranch provides the turkey and everyone brings a ‘covered dish’ to contribute. They start on Wednesday evening cooking the turkeys in giant BBQ’s. They stay up all night to cook them and people come and go all night to talk and pass the time with the team of cooks. Everyone is welcome to come and get dinner, then the music on the stage stats at about 3.00 and goes on util about 10.00.

Due to the kindness of Connie and Jim we had been invited to the Soggy Bottom Bunch thanksgiving dinner, which was centred round Connie and Jim’s and Brenda and David’s RV’s. Connie had got up at 6.00 to roast a 22b turkey in a giant electric roaster, by 12.00 people were starting to gather at their RV. Everyone helped to set out the food that had been brought. Turkey, Sweet Potatoes, mashed potatoes, scalloped potatoes, potato salad, hash potato salad, sweet potato stuffing, bread stuffing, two other stuffing’s that were indescribable. Loads of different salads, fresh fruit (yes with your dinner), Cranberry jelly and sauce, apple sauce and pickles. You couldn’t get a sample of everything on a single plate, you had to take at least two turns at the table, Let alone getting a lot of dishes which were particularly nice. After this we had to eat the desserts, apple pie, sweet potato pie, pumpkin pie, pecan pie and cherry pie. Brownies and bits.

The real joy was that Connie and Jim had opened their RV/home to us as complete strangers, we almost felt that we were part of their family. The afternoon moved on and we then got round to playing some bluegrass together. We finished at about midnight, though Sally went to bed at about 9.00, exhausted. It was another lovely day for Sally and me.