Evenin folks!

It is Tuesday night and I am so sleepy so don't be expecting much out of me tonight! After Dancing With The Stars, I'm hitting the sack! Haven't been sleeping well lately and I'm not sure why. Very aggravating though! Alfred got a small buck yesterday so we have deer meat now! I can hardly wait to fry some up with mashed taters and gravy! Ummm.....It is SO good on a cold night for sure!

I was thinking earlier today about a Thanksgiving we celebrated some years back. Our families were all here and I decided to cook most of the side dishes outside in my Dutch Oven! I did Broccoli Rice Casserole, Mexican Cornbread and Berry Cobbler in it! It was the NEATEST thing and tasted unbelievably good! We even ate outside around the fire and stayed there talking and laughing for hours! It was an awesome time for everyone! A Thanksgiving we won't soon forget! Now, for those of you who don't know what a Dutch Oven is, it is a big, cast iron pot with legs and a flat lid with a lip around it. You pull hot coals out away from the fire and set the Dutch Oven on top of them. Then you put whatever dish you want to bake inside it, cover with the lid and put hot coals all over the top. The heat from the coals creates an oven inside the pot and you can bake very much like a regular oven does in your home. It even browns like an oven! Of course you can't regulate the temperature very well so you just have to play it by ear! It was so much fun and made us feel like we had stepped back in time. If you are in an area where you can, I recommend trying it sometime!

We are so blessed and this Thanksgiving we need to slow down and enjoy the simpler things. We get so caught up in the cooking, cleaning and preparing for the festivities that we miss the blessing! Let's not miss out this Thanksgiving! How about we slow down and look around at all God has done and then give Him our heartfelt thanks this year.

It is good to give thanks to the Lord, to sing praises to your name, O Most High.
—Psalm 92:1

AMEN BROTHER! :) God bless...