{"id":257,"date":"2011-11-26T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T13:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=257"},"modified":"2011-11-26T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2011-11-26T16:18:12","slug":"turkey-bowl-vi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/turkey-bowl-vi\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Bowl VI…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our annual Turkey Bowl has become a\u00a0fixture of our family weekend.\u00a0 And the play has improved each year, mostly because our grandchildren have moved up to high school and college.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Grandpa, in the center, has also moved up to great-grandpa and has been assigned a more limited\u00a0role to a few plays as nose guard and center.\u00a0 This is a recognition not of his skill but his singular lack of mobility.<\/p>\n

Son-in-law Paul, the quarterback of our team, is the prime force in organizing the game and always has a few trick plays up his sleeve, which insure that our team will continue its losing streak.\u00a0 We were further set back when 10-year old grandson Luis decided he’d rather fish.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Still, we have a likely-looking prospect coming along.\u00a0 Great-grandson Rowan made his first visit to Thistle Hill and took all the new sights in stride.\u00a0 The beautiful young woman behind us, almost as big as Rowan, is his mother Ashley.<\/p>\n

Rowan is quite a remarkable young man, of course.\u00a0 Almost 11 pounds at birth, he’d be a testimony to grass fed beef if he’d ever\u00a0had any.\u00a0 I have no problem with the idea, I’m a great-grandfather.\u00a0 Dealing with the thought that my daughter is a grandmother, is a bit more difficult.<\/p>\n

And since this is, after all, my blog, I will indulge myself with one more picture.\u00a0 Believe me, there are more.\u00a0 When I counted my blessings this year, Rowan and his mom, Ashley, were right at the top of the list!\u00a0 Rowan’s dad, my grandson, is pretty special, too.<\/p>\n

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Our annual Turkey Bowl has become a\u00a0fixture of our family weekend.\u00a0 And the play has improved each year, mostly because our grandchildren have moved up to high school and college. Grandpa, in the center, has also moved up to great-grandpa and has been assigned a more limited\u00a0role to a few plays as nose guard and center.\u00a0 This is a recognition not of his skill but his singular lack of mobility. Son-in-law Paul, the quarterback of our team, is the prime force in organizing the game and always has a few trick plays up his sleeve, which insure that our team will continue its losing streak.\u00a0 We were further set back when 10-year old grandson Luis decided he’d rather fish. Still, we have a likely-looking prospect coming along.\u00a0 Great-grandson Rowan made his first visit to Thistle Hill and took all the new sights in stride.\u00a0 The beautiful young woman behind us, almost as big as Rowan, is his mother Ashley. Rowan is quite a remarkable young man, of course.\u00a0 Almost 11 pounds at birth, he’d be a testimony to grass fed beef if he’d ever\u00a0had any.\u00a0 I have no problem with the idea, I’m a great-grandfather.\u00a0 Dealing with the thought that my daughter is a grandmother, is a bit more difficult. And since this is, after all, my blog, I will indulge myself with one more picture.\u00a0 Believe me, there are more.\u00a0 When I counted my blessings this year, Rowan and his mom, Ashley, were right at the top of the list!\u00a0 Rowan’s dad, my grandson, is pretty special, too.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}