11 Years Later and I’m Once Again Picking Lettuce on Thanksgiving Day

Reddish plastic pot filled with bronze-tinged crinkly green lettuce leaves.

In 2013, as part of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), I chronicled my goal of picking lettuce from my garden on Thanksgiving Day in southeast Michigan.

Not an easy goal, given our nighttime November temperatures were often in the mid-teens (Fahrenheit).

And a trip to Florida in mid-November that year meant I had to rely on a heavy mulch of leaves to protect the lettuce while I was away.

It worked! Eleven years ago today, I picked lettuce for our Thanksgiving holiday meal!

This year, I did the same thing. But not intentionally.

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Celebrate World Kindness Day on November 13

Collection of rocks with bright yellow painted rock in center with the words Bee Kind and a drawing of a bee.

Holding a door open for another person, sharing kinds words with someone you care about, or paying for the meal for the person behind you at the drive-through are unexpected acts of kindness that can make someone’s day.

And sometimes we forget about that as we focus on our own life struggles.

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