Today my top pri­or­ity is get­ting out the posters for the upcom­ing “Feather Party” at our local Legion. Every year I won­der at the “title” for this lit­tle get together but appar­ently it is the thing to do as a fund raiser around here for all the local legion posts. Since some are closer than oth­ers, I won­der how much they raise, or if it is really just a chance to get out of the house the week of Thanks­giv­ing.
Just so you know, there are no “feath­ers” given away, it is not some secret “wher­ever your mind might go” party, it is a get together where a light meal is served, raf­fle tick­ets are sold ahead of time for beef and pork cer­tifi­cates (where are the feath­ers there, might you ask???) and they play bingo for turkeys and ties for bacon (no feath­ers here either). Basi­cally, from what I gather, since I am not a mem­ber of the legion nor the “good old boys club” (are you lis­ten­ing SP?) it is to give away turkeys for thanks­giv­ing. Now I don’t know about you folks, but as the gro­cery shop­per in this fam­ily, I would have my turkey well before next Tues­day when the actual party is, but hey, if the guys need an excuse to party, let them party I say. You can always make the turkey for Christ­mas. When I ques­tioned my hus­band, the legion com­man­der, on the pos­si­ble turnout since the town only 3 miles away from ours is hav­ing their feather party 3 days before his, he seemed to think there might be “feather party” hoppers…those with lit­tle else to do on cold Novem­ber days then attend all the feather par­ties in a sev­eral mile radius. I hate to say it, but I think it gets worse as win­ter looms and farm­ers, who are nor­mally busy every minute of every day, look for ways to pass the time. Yessiree…sounds like a whole lot of fun to me!!! And no, I won’t be attend­ing. The Legion com­man­der and his fam­ily are not allowed to win a turkey, bacon etc. Ah, the pain of lead­er­ship.
Well off to do my civic duty…in case you are interested…the legion, next Tues­day, 7pm …any town in rural america.….…..