Things went along fairly well for awhile and we were becoming more content with our country estate. Things were going so well we decided to have Thanksgiving Dinner all by ourselves. I woke early to put the turkey on, bake a pie, peel potatoes, and generaly prepare our little abode for our first holiday. After breakfast we took a long walk through the woods, watched a mama and baby deer meander through the fields, carried in some firewood, and tried to pretend we were early pioneers on our way to visit the Indians.
Our day was nearly idyllic - until dinner. Not that the dinner itself was not perfect, I am a good cook afterall, but among the treats of candied yams, stuffing, mashed potatoes, and my world famous gravy, I started to notice something was slightly amiss. Hubby and I are just about the same height but as I was shoveling, I mean daintly putting, a spoonful of corn pudding into my mouth I noticed that he appeared to be growing taller across the table from me. Ordinally I would have thought this was a good thing but I knew in my heart something about this was not going to end right.
Not wanting to alarm anybody, I kept my fears to myself and just kept right on eating. Okay, so maybe I was just hungry, but I still didn't want to scare anybody. Along about my second slice of pie I looked across at my sweet hubby was at least four inches higher than I was. I was beginning to have trouble shortning my fork to mouth stride so no one else would notice that I was coming surprisingly close to eye level with my Cool Whip covered cherry pie.
Fortunately dinner ended and the children scooted off to listen to old reruns of "The Shadow" on PBS radio. It was then that hubby looked across and made the astute observation, "are you shrinking"? Duh, do you think? "I think I am going to need some help getting out of my chair."
Turns out our kitchen floor had some weak spots. Many weak spots we were to find out. Since winter was coming upon us we decided to put carpet squares over the weak spots until Spring when we could replace the entire floor. At first we had no trouble, once we moved the table, missing the carpet squares but the longer winter drug on the less uncarpeted space we had. In fact, by the time we replaced the floor, it was almost completely carpeted.
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