Thanksgiving Q&As With our Advertisers

from Country Acres - November 19, 2021

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Mike Schweiss Schweiss Worldwide Door Sales | Hector

1. We get together with our kids and grandkids and we celebrate turkey day. We get together as a family and meet up in Florida every year. We have two daughters down there and the rest of the family packs up and heads down there. The day after Thanksgiving, we go to the Hog Waller Mud Bog and go four-wheeling.

2. That family is important, and a very, very special meal and giving thanks.

3. We have turkey and dressing prepared outside of the bird. My wife prepares it and I eat it.

4. We have a high noon meal and then just lounge around. At the Florida property, we just sit around the pool and enjoy.

5. Four kids and four grandkids and my wife. It’s very special to get one-on-one time with the family; otherwise, it gets to be a herd and it loses the whole punch.

6. My wife has the house decorated by Halloween and the gifts are already wrapped under the tree. She likes to be ahead of the curve. She gets on edge if it’s not done. Having it done early keeps everyone calm as we prepare for the holiday.

1. Getting together with our family, eating lots of delicious foods, watching football and taking a snooze on the couch, and for Amy, it’s also checking out the Black Friday ads. Amy and her dad love to shop so they always make a daughter/dad day and go shopping Black Friday – not the crazy get up at 4 a.m. and stand in line shoppers but they still like to get out and fi nd some deals. Our family has two Thanksgivings, one with each side of the family, so a few days after the fi rst, we do it all over again and eat some more delicious food, watch more football, take another snooze and, after a full belly, make a trip across the road to the local golf course and we walk through the woods looking for golf balls. Some years we can’t do the hunt because there is snow but the years we can we collect fi ve ice cream pails of balls.

2. We hope that they remember the togetherness and time spent together. Thanksgiving is a time to really focus on what you are thankful for and what really matters to you, and to have it all in one place on Thanksgiving is really special.

3. This question is impossible to answer- it is ALL so good! But if we had to pick our favorites, Amy’s would be the potatoes – prepared any kind of way, whether it be traditional mashed, cheesy, or sweet. We sometimes make a sweet potato crunch casserole with sweet potatoes, brown sugar, pecans on top and lots of butter. Darren’s favorite is traditional green bean casserole which is always a staple dish on the Thanksgiving table. And, of course, the kids love the pie.

4. Thanksgiving is usually an all-day aff air, we eat around noon, watch football, nap, eat again and then end with Black Friday shopping or golf ball hunting.

5. Our family gets together with our parents and siblings. We both come from pretty small families so we can all usually fi t around the table – with the exception of the kids, they get to sit at the kid table. It’s important to include our families because they are the people you love most.

6. Well, Christmas happens early at the Michaelis household. I actually have all my decorations and tree up, I put them up the fi rst weekend of November. I used to wait until the day after Thanksgiving, but with 2020 being the year it was I decided to switch it up and put it up early that year and it just stuck, I think from now on I will always put it up early. The decorations take a long time to put up so the longer we get to enjoy them the better. We also love to sit in our living room with our kids in the glow of our fi replace and lights and just relax. There is nothing cozier and it makes us happy. So, we do what makes us happy. edge if it’s not done. Having it done early keeps everyone calm as we prepare for the holiday. 1. What are your favorite Thanksgiving holiday traditions? 2. What do you hope your children remember about Thanksgiving when they have families of their own?

3. What is your favorite Thanksgiving dish and how do you prepare it? 4. When do your Thanksgiving festivities begin and what do they include? 5. Who do you join together with for Thanksgiving? 6. How early do you launch into Christmas preparations at your home? Any Christmas traditions that follow immediately on Thanksgiving weekend?

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1. What are your favorite Thanksgiving holiday traditions? 2. What do you hope your children remember about Thanksgiving when they have families of their own?

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John Huonder Huonder Livestock Nutrition | Milaca

1. They’re sort of new. We all used to get together when Mom and Dad were alive. Now we go to my brother Steve’s and he lives in Blaine. It’s myself, my wife, son and daughter. When my parents were alive, my siblings would all gather there – I’m the youngest of fi ve. Now we get together at my brother’s – all the siblings and however many of their kids.

2. Basically, that the best thing about it is the family getting together; it’s not the food or the decorations, it’s the family getting together. Because that’s something you can’t buy, it’s not something you can put in the oven and make. That’s something that’s there and the only thing you can count on. You can burn your turkey and stuff but your family, they’re going to end up being there for you.

3. I don’t prepare it; I just know how to eat it. Stuffi ng with gravy on the stuffi ng. We’re talking carb-central basically, which I don’t need but I don’t care on Thanksgiving, that’s my free day. Stuffi ng with gravy on it, you just can’t beat that; if there’s a choice of in-the-bird stuffi ng and out-of-the-bird stuffi ng, it’s always the stuffi ng in the bird.

4. We get together around 11 in the morning and everybody starts going home about 4. There’s always football on. I have a niece who gets a whole bunch of little prizes and they play games with the younger kids and hand out prizes.

5. All my siblings come and as many of their kids as possible; now they have kids too, so the grandkids come.

6. That used to be a Mom and Dad thing, too. Christmas is just more us; our family and we go to diff erent places. But basically, it’s just the four of us on Christmas day. Then we see which sibling has something going on, it’s not a set-instone thing. The tree goes up two weeks before Christmas and Thanksgiving is just about Thanksgiving. Between Christmas and New Year’s, we have a little down time and try to do something special, like we might go to a movie or do something a little bit diff erent.

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1. They’re passed on. The whole family gets together and usually has Thanksgiving dinner and we have all that good stuff . Most of the time, we would go home to the parents but they don’t host anymore. Now, that’s switched off and the kids are old enough they’re coming to us. Parents come maybe half the time.

2. Just getting together and having a good time. Just keeping family together.

3. The dressing – out of the bird. I just like that better. My wife, Sandy, dries out the bread for a couple days before and adds all the spices. 4. Usually around 10 a.m. we just gather together. Just talking and chatting. Just keeping everybody together. Just getting caught up on everything. We don’t play games or watch football; we just enjoy each other.

5. We have four children, all adults now, and they join us but sometimes Mom and Dad and the sisters come too. It keeps everybody closer.

6. The kids all do their own Christmas decorating at their homes starting that weekend. Our house gets decorated shortly after Thanksgiving, usually the week after. The weekend of Thanksgiving we just relax, sit around together as a couple and chat about the weekend.