One of my brothers flew into town last Wednesday, and on this last night of our Thanksgiving weekend I am thankful for all the family time I’ve had these past five days.

My husband, brother and I spent Thursday with my dad’s sister, my aunt, talking about people from generations before, and eating traditional Thanksgiving fare.

The rest of the weekend we hung out around home, watching the nature in my backyard…

…and today I took him out to Kensington to experience the bird in the hand phenomenon.

All of it was so much fun.

He goes home tomorrow, his own dog is anxiously waiting for him, but Katie sure loved having another admirer in the house. We played together in the new snow a couple of times, and she was all smiles.

I’m not looking forward to telling her that her new loyal subject won’t be around to wait on her after tomorrow.

She and I are both going to miss him.