My daughter woke up early Thanksgiving morn to a police officer banging on her door.  Her truck had been stolen after she had fallen asleep at 3:30 a.m.  Right out of the driveway.  Of course, she left her keys in the ignition, but who could believe anyone would steal her 1991 Mitsubishi - well, it's not really a truck, but a 4-wheel drive jeepy/boxy thing, that won't start for her, even if she shuts it off for only a few minutes.  She always has to get out and get under the hood with a wire brush and clean up the battery terminals.  But of course, it started right up for the thief.

It was some 22-year-old youngster, having left a late-night drinking party, very drunk, who thought he would just walk home in the very cold night.  Perhaps realizing his mistake, he first stole a bicycle and went on his way.  But he was completely lost and didn't know where he was.  He must have been near frozen when he turned into my daughter's driveway, threw the bike into the back of her truck, fell down once, but started it up and prepared to drive away.  But failing to realize that the driveway could have been used to drive out, he tried to go through the woods - backed up and smashed my son-in-law's car and finally got away.  Until he somehow drove through an unplowed woodland road until he came to another road, where he completely mowed down a utility pole, breaking it in half and totally destroyed the Mitsubishi. 

A police officer, who lived nearby, was just leaving to go to work, when he spied the broken utility pole lying in the road and saw the poor vehicle all smashed up.  Realizing that someone was inside, he got out of his car and went to see, found the kid still trying to drive away.  Then the kid got out and fled on foot!  Well, the arraignment is this morning, but my daughter and son-in-law are home-bound, as both their vehicles are undriveable, to say the least.  The kid was not hurt at all, of course.  But the Mitsubishi is totalled.  The car can be towed in and repaired, though. 

The only other news is that we all enjoyed a good Thanksgiving Day feast anyway at my daughter's house, except for one thing.  She had charged me with making the pumpkin pie, and wanted me to use the pumpkin I bought at Halloween, which I suspect now was a field pumpkin more suited for making a jack-o-lantern, and not for making a pie.  Something was not quite right about it, and I warned everyone that they probably wouldn't like it.  They were brave enough to agree with me, and I hope that Suzie, the chicken, will like it, as that is where the rest of it is going.  What a disappointment!  But we all agreed that none of us is that crazy about pumpkin pie in the first place, and next time, there will be cherry, apple, cheesecake, or some other dessert, we all agreed. 

I called my brother and he is doing well, having been invited to a friend's house yesterday for turkey/duck dinner.  I watched a program on tv about stuffing a turkey with a duck and then stuffing the duck with a chicken, calling the whole thing a turducken.  All day long, I was going around saying "turducken" every so often.  I ate this dish once at a restaurant, but didn't care for it as much as the traditional feast, and tomorrow, I think, I am going to do the roasting of the turkey that John brought home.  It has been thawing for 2 days in the refrigerator, and I believe it will be ready to roast tomorrow.  We'll finish up an English pot roast made day before yesterday, tonight.  Gosh, all I ever talk about is food? 

I am beginning to feel the stirrings of something like an urge to clean house and decorate, which I have not begun to do yet.  The weather has been fairly mild and still, there is a very light covering of snow everywhere.  This can't and won't last much longer, I think.  I feel the need to do something interesting, or crafty, for a change.