Thanksgiving...

Bill and Betsy Newton hosted Thanksgiving Dinner in Honaker, VA.

My contribution was the pumpkin and chocolate pies and homemade rolls.

However, before dinner...

Elder Butler split wood...

Last week our young Elders "hucked" trees down the mountain.

Brother Newton sawed them into chunks preparing for today.

Elder Moore sorted and stacked smaller pieces of firewood.

Indoors, this is the "wood box" next to the refrigerator, ready for the winter storms to begin.

Betsy taught me how to make New York style cranberry sauce:

Dissolve 1 cup sugar in 1 cup water.

Add 16 oz. washed whole cranberries.

Stir constantly over medium-high heat until the berries "pop"

Stir in 16 oz. orange marmalade.

Chill.

On the way back to Raven, we stopped at various homes to visit new members and investigators.

For some, Thanksgiving brought hunting success.

Here, hunters sit in "tree stands" waiting for the deer to come by!

First they put out food under the designated tree...example...corn...

to feed the deer for a period of time prior to "the hunt!"

A "tree stand" is a platform built high in the tree..sort of like Collin and Tara's treehouse.