Taking the "cut your own Christmas tree" and "pick your own pumpkin" ideas to their logical next level, Cooper suggested the other day that we go out and "kill our own turkey" for Thanksgiving. Not quite sure what to say, Deanna went with an easy out by pointing out to him that we have no gun. Unfazed, and apparently having already contemplated this possibility, Cooper earnestly responded that all we would need would be a net and a knife.
While I appreciate his old school, do-it-yourself Pilgrim attitude, I am not quite sure what he is picturing will happen once the family, armed with our largest kitchen knife and perhaps some of our impressive collection of plastic light sabers, manages to trap a wild turkey in a net somewhere in the woods. What I imagine, however, is each of us standing around in a circle, passing the knife on to the next person and saying "I'm not doing it, you do it" and the whole thing ending with us having a new pet named "Gobbly" living in the backyard.
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