Seeing how only a couple days of classes remain before Thanksgiving break, I think that it would be appropriate to blog about Thanksgiving and even a little about what I will probably be doing during my break. Thanksgiving will be different this year as compared to other years simply because of the fact that I now go to college six hours away from home. I consider myself to be more changed going into this Thanksgiving, because of the fact that I have been living on my own and have been solely responsible for myself. Not only is it just the responsibility factor, but for the first time I am technically an adult because I am eighteen and I have noticed how my childhood has been fading away. I still hope to have a traditional holiday, because being home will provide a great opportunity to get back to my roots and to enjoy myself.
One of the things that I’m looking forward to the most when I think about going home is the chance to hunt. I was only able to bow hunt one morning this year, when I would normally have hunted around a dozen times by now. That one time that I did get out in the woods, I was pleasantly surprised to see a good amount of deer. This has made me extremely excited to get back home and hunt some more. What is even better about hunting this week, is the fact that this week is a week of shotgun hunting. The only reason that I couldn’t take a shot at the deer when I hunted this year is because they were too far away for me to get a good shot with my bow. However, this week I probably won’t have that problem because I will be hunting with a shotgun instead of a bow. I will also be able to hunt on the best day to hunt all year: the opening day of shotgun season, which is Saturday, or the first day of the break. This day is by far the best day to hunt because there will be more hunters out on Saturday than any other day. This means that there will be a lot of deer being pushed around the woods, meaning there is a much better chance of seeing and possibly getting a shot at one.
I also can’t wait to be home for Thanksgiving because I can’t wait to do all the things that my family and I traditionally do each year. As a kid, Thanksgiving would always start with lunch over at my Grandparents’ house. This was no normal lunch, but it was actually called a “Snoopy Picnic”. The meal was of course named after the Peanuts movie, “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”. My mom and grandma are huge Peanuts fans, so naturally my sister and I were big fans as well when we grew up. This meal is different because we eat it on a blanket that we spread out on the living room floor, which is to resemble the impromptu thanksgiving meal that Charlie Brown threw for his friends in the movie. After eating, we would lie around the room and groan while watching “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving”. I haven’t eaten this meal in about four or five years because it was always tradition that the men (my dad and his dad) would hunt every Thanksgiving morning, because it is one of the only days my dad gets off of work. When I was old enough, I began hunting Thanksgiving mornings too, and afterwards we go over to my grandparents’ to clean up the leftovers. We then spend the rest of the day at their house and eat Thanksgiving dinner there at night.
I’m counting down the days until thanksgiving break because I can’t wait to slip back into tradition after the giant changes that college has brought. Here is a clip of “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” that my family tries to emulate in our own way (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DME_Hpk8IeU&feature=related). This is a great movie, that I hope to be able to even pass on to my kids one day. It makes my Thanksgiving holiday better, and I hope it can do the same for you.
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