Schmidt’s Sausage Haus: a Columbus institution. Every bit as good as I remembered.

Turkey Day with most of my siblings. A small cheat: this was taken by my DH.

Copper paint technique in my Nan’s condo:

Her view over Bexley/Columbus:

And my sister’s awesome looking preschool classroom:

Not sure what happened here, but I seem to have lost a day…

No picture of the day here.

Pirates on the highway

Is 3 shopping bags of fixins too excessive for Thanksgiving dinner? I think not, especially when those bags contain preserved goodies like duck prosciutto, fig & plum jam, tomato jam, bacon, and pickled beets.

1 sleep to go & then it’s off to Columbus to see the family units!

Happy birthday, ma. Walked around the holiday shop booths at the Union Square green market, loaded up on Thanksgiving ingredients to share with family, bought a tee and hoodie at a local business, and ate some tasty, tasty sushi at a great little spot you’d love. Uni… Yummy…

Mmmmm…. cider.

The only type of Nembu face portrait Nembu wants me to take:

Close to what I want to take (after much cajoling, pleading and a firm ‘don’t go anywhere’ hand):

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