The Recorder on November 27, 2025
My daddy goes hunting for the turkey. He brings a shotgun. My dad rides a bear and shoots the turkeys down and wrestles it to the ground, I think. We slice it in our other garage and we usually um, um cook it in the oven because it’s a big turkey. I think we cook it at 10:30 at night. I think Mom cooks it hot because we like to play shooting turkey. We eat green beans and mac and cheese with the turkey and sometimes we get ice cream for dessert. I am thankful for my grandma and my aunt. I love my family and I am thankful for them! Happy pumpkin pie weekend!
Jesse Springer
We don’t eat turkey for Thanksgiving. Actually we do. My daddy, he makes it. He cooks it. I eat cake and I eat cupcakes. My dad and mom make ham. We cook it in the oven. It’s got to be hot, hot. Umm, I think they cook it at 6 degrees. We leave it in there for 8 minutes. I play on my phone while we wait. We put salt on the ham. We have mac and cheese and potatoes. And after that we have pumpkin and pumpkin pie! I go outside and we go outside and cook hot dogs. Ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise is what I have on my hotdog. And we also paint pumpkins, and we paint faces. And my mommy goes outside and helps me paint my face. Mike, Mark, Aunt Haley, and Becky and Lee, and Nana come over to celebrate. And my Mawmaw and Pawpaw. I’m thankful for… I don’t know! I am thankful for my mom. She’s nice. I’m also thankful for my baby brother. His name is Braden. Also, I love Sissy. I love you and miss you all!
Elizabeth Terry
First, we get a turkey from the mountains. We usually get a girl turkey because the boys will be better. Or, maybe the girls, either both of them would be really good. It’s sometimes frozen when we get it. Sometimes I don’t know. For seasoning, we put like stuff that makes it taste good like hot seasoning and cold seasoning and it will be good. You should microwave the turkey for 11 minutes, I think, or 10 minutes if it is a good one. The microwave has to be super-hot like, 500 degrees. While we wait, my mom likes to watch it, but I go into the living room and play with my sister Charlotte and Abigail. Then I come out and check the turkey, then run back and go to sleep. My grandma usually gets the turkey out. We don’t like to wait for it to come out. We just eat it like chomp, chomp, chomp! I dip my turkey in mashed potatoes. We zoom to school and drop it off. I eat it with salad and mashed potatoes. Have you ever dipped turkey in mashed potatoes? It’s really good! We eat strawberry cake for dessert. And cupcakes usually. We go to somebody’s house. We go to Mike and Lori’s house for Thanksgiving. I am thankful for Lori, my mom, my dad, my sisters, and Nannan. Bye Nannan see ya later, buffalo!
Atlee Brock
We don’t have turkey for Thanksgiving. We have chicken. We get chicken from the dollar store. It’s like about like $1. It’s cold when we get it. We let it cool off for about 40 minutes. Yeah. We put salt on it before and after. Nothing else. Actually my mom puts barbecue sauce on it. We bake it in the oven for about 100 minutes. The oven has to be 100 degrees hot. Mom actually lets me put the stuff in when it’s not hot, but she doesn’t let me take the tray out. We gotta let it cool so I watch TV. I don’t have an iPad but I do at my Nan and Pop’s house. I don’t dip it in anything. I eat it plain. I eat like French fries, hamburgers, shrimp, mashed potatoes, and chicken nuggets, oh, and ketchup. I like to drink milk with it. We have brownies and vanilla ice cream with chocolate syrup. My Nan and Pops come over and they bring my iPad and Zane has a phone but he only gets to watch it when he’s over there. And then after that I watch my iPad. I’m thankful for my mom and my dad and Nan and Pops. I think my brother Shilo will cry a lot at Thanksgiving. Bye. See you.
Oliver Hooke
For Thanksgiving we have turkey. We get a turkey at Walmart. It costs $10. It is frozen when we get it so we need to put it in the oven. We don’t put any seasoning on it. We microwave our turkey for 1 hour; 1 degree is what we set the oven to. I play with my brother while I wait for the turkey to be done. We need to wait for the turkey to cool cause it’s hot. I dip my turkey in barbecue sauce and it’s really good! We eat pumpkin pie, beans, apples, and nothing else. I drink apple juice with my food. I go over to my aunt Cheryl’s for Thanksgiving. And Charlotte is my cousin. I’m thankful for Charlotte and my grandma Cindy. Toodles!
Lyla Swecker
We get our turkey at the farm. We get a girl turkey because they’re pretty. You need to take the feathers off of it and then you can cook it. We don’t put any seasoning on it. Actually we put cinnamon on it. I put the turkey in the oven for 10 minutes and we set it for 9 minutes because it has to be really hot. I play with my friends while I wait for the turkey. My dad gets the turkey out and lets it cool off. He cuts the turkey with his kitchen knife. I dip my turkey in ketchup. I like to drink milk. Chocolate milk! We eat salad, chicken, and some fries. We eat mint ice cream and cookies and cream ice cream. My cousins come over for Thanksgiving. Also my family. I am thankful for my cousins, and my mom. Love you, Mom!
Lorrissa Vaus
I hunt for our turkey. My dad and I will go during turkey season. After you get your turkey we have to butcher it. You have to take the feathers off. Then you get it in the sink and scrub it. You put it in the refrigerator. When it is cooled down then you can put sprinkles on it. Then you put it in the oven at 60 degrees and cook it for like 5 hours. Then it will be done. Then we can eat it. My dad and my grandpa carve it. Sometimes my brother helps. I like to have chicken and salad and maybe some cookies when I am done. We have Thanksgiving at my Grandpa and Nanna’s house. We go there. We take Christmas tree cakes there too. After our dinner my brother and I will play baseball. I am thankful for going hunting for deer and stuff. I am thankful for my Dad and Mom and for my grandparents. Happy Thanksgiving!
Sawyer Alford
We get our turkey from Roots Market. We get a big turkey. You have to thaw it. Then you sprinkle it with salt. Then you put it in the oven at 80 degrees for 100 minutes. It is done because the microwave timer will go “ding-ding.” We will also have cooked shrimp. We will also have yams, fish and salmon. I help Dad and Mom cook. We will have lots of ice cream for dessert. Peter and Elisha will come too. After dinner I will play on my Nintendo. I will play outside and also play freeze-tag. Happy Thanksgiving!
Good-bye!
Aurora Bucker
We get a turkey from the store. Actually we don’t even get one at the store. This year we’re getting one from my aunt Misa. We’re gonna eat it for Thanksgiving. We put spices like pepper and salt on the turkey. We don’t really do anything else with the turkey. We cook our turkey at home. We either put it in the stove or microwave. I don’t remember. We leave it in there for like 20 minutes and it’s, um, 10 degrees; 10 degrees is kinda cold so maybe not. Maybe 20 degrees. We play while we wait for the turkey. Kinsley comes but Misa calls her Kiki, that’s her mom. Mommy cuts the turkey and then we eat! I don’t really eat anything to dip it in. We eat berries, cabbage, mashed potatoes, and that’s it. And gravy. Oh and also stuffing. For dessert, I have pie but it has to be pumpkin pie. We eat thanksgiving with mom, dad, S.J., grandma Danti, Grandpa, and Carson. I am thankful for my family, and my friends. Bye!
Evie Neil
I usually shoot a turkey in a holler. It’s a boy turkey. We need to peel it, so the feathers are off. Then I need to cook it. I put no seasoning on it actually. Well pepper and salt actually. We cook it in the oven for 10 minutes. I set it for hot degrees. I play with my cousin Beckett while I wait for the turkey. My Mommom gets it out with gloves. She gets it out so if I trip, I don’t fall. We need to wait for it to cool. You get a fan and let it blow on it. Me and Beckett go play on the playground cause we cook it at the firehouse. Then I bring the turkey to Beckett’s house. We don’t eat it yet. I play with Beckett some more. Then we eat it! I eat some corn, green beans, pork chops, and mashed potatoes. I dip my turkey in ranch dressing. And then Aunt Lizzy, Bam, Beckett, and Mommom, and grandad, we all eat the food. Oh, I forgot Uncle Eafy. And then Aunt Cindy and Uncle Jeff and Kirsten. She rides horses on Thanksgiving sometimes. And that’s it. I’m thankful for everybody! Bye.
Axel Beverage
My dad shoots the turkey usually ‘cause I only have a BB gun. We went back into the woods past my house. Like in front of the woods on Blueberry hill. We usually go on Blueberry hill cause that’s where the blueberries are and the turkeys go there. If we don’t have stuff that we need, like if my dad wants hot sauce, we go grab it inside then come out on the table. There’s a table in the garage about the size of the cafeteria. and we usually eat outside in the garage. And we usually eat there and do stuff. We cook it soon. We wash some of the meat off but it’s still all together. Then we bring it out on the table. Sometimes we set up a couple games to play when you’re done eating. For seasoning my dad likes putting hot sauce on his and sometimes my brother likes hot sauce and seasoning like spicy pepper seasoning. I like Legler’s seasoning and gas station hot sauce. I like the gas station hot sauce where you get the hot sauce from the gas station. Yeah, my dad calls it the gas station hot sauce. We have a grill that’s out back and we have a campsite and we have one of those things like a big plate over the fire stove and we have a dome that covers it. We put the turkey inside and cook it that way. We cook it for like 10 minutes. Then we take it off and put it on a big tray and put it on the table out front and put some flowers up. We have stuff like macaroni and cheese and broccoli and green beans and chips. Usually our grandma’s and mom and dad and Hunter and me and Frankie, Grandpa and our other grandma. We have three grandmas. I’m thankful for God, my mom and dad and my brother. Bye!
Colton Chandler
We get a turkey from outside in a chicken coop. Then we cut it up for Thanksgiving. We put salt, pepper, that’s all. We cook it in the oven for 3 minutes; 5 degrees is hot enough. I just sit down and wait to cut the turkey. We eat some corn, some mashed potatoes. Oh, for dessert we have some strawberry ice cream. Some families come over for Thanksgiving. I’m thankful for getting some chicken and Mamaw. Bye bye.
Junior Allen
Me and my dad go shoot a turkey and my grandad. We go out in the woods. You need to take the feathers off of it and then shove it in the oven. We put pepper, salt, that’s all actually. We put our turkey in the oven. One time my mom was cooking and she set off the fire alarm. I think it was ham. Put the turkey in the oven for 15 minutes. The oven has to be hot, like 80 degrees. Then we let it cool down and eat it. My daddy sometimes cuts it but my mommy does sometimes. Oh, we have chicken legs, mashed potatoes, corn, and ham, and cheeseballs. My Daddad, my Momom, my Gigi, my Pappap, come. Maybe more ham too? I’m thankful for my mommy. For dessert we have ice cream, strawberry. We have a bunch of them. Our whole house is packed with them cause we buy too many! More ham also. Also we eat hamburgers. Bye.
Owen McDaniel
We buy a turkey at a store. At the dollar store. I put gravy on my turkey. It’s kind of expensive. Like $5. We put our turkey on the stove for 10 minutes. It’s 1,000 degrees in the oven. We have cheese at Thanksgiving. We also have green beans, cake, and corn. I’m thankful for Billie, Mom, Colby, Dad. Bye!
Weston Clark
I get my turkey from my Papaw’s driveway. It’s a really good deer hunting spot. My dad cooks the turkey in the stove. It’s really hot. Mom puts pepper on the turkey. I eat chicken wings because when I was a little baby I used to eat chicken wings because I liked them. It takes 5 minutes. I like potato chips for dessert. I’m thankful because I’m giving people my chicken.
Lacy Terry
The store is where the turkey comes from. I eat ice cream and I eat pie. My dad and Pawpaw and Brittany and Pop Pop are there. You have to slice, slice, and cut the turkey. That’s how you cook it. Uh, the turkey is in the oven for days. Keep it going, keep it going. The oven is steaming! You put it at 5 degrees. We eat ketchup and bread with the turkey. I eat brownies and Swiss rolls and Twinkies for dessert. And I eat cake. I’m most thankful for playing soldiers and Buzz Lightyear and for soda and coke and energy drinks and cakes. I’m thankful for my dad and brothers. Uhh, I’m also thankful for my four wheeler so I can do burnouts.
Gabe Pullin
The turkeys are at my house. My grandma is the one who gets the turkey. You put the turkey in the oven to cook it. It is very hot. Umm, ketchup and cream and Ranch goes on the turkey and mustard. Ham and rice goes with the turkey. I have turkey and deer for dessert. The deer meat is on top of the turkey and some salad is on the deer meat. Chocolate is on top of the salad and the cream is on top of the chocolate and it is so good. My grandma and Katherine will eat dinner with us. Andrea and Burgundy and apparently Miss Jade will come too. I play with lots of toys all the time during Thanksgiving. I gotta charge my tablet. I’m thankful for my family and I’m gonna eat pig meat.
Henley Hedrick
My turkey comes from the grocery store. We get it at Walmart. We cut the neck off and then I cut it into a lot of pieces. You have to put some salt on it. Then we bake it up. We cook it in the microwave to cook on high. It might be done in one minute, if not it will be done in two minutes. I take it out and cool it down. I like corn and mashed potatoes with it. I like to pour gravy all over it too. My Dad and I will make a pumpkin pie. My Nanna and Poppa will come to my house. My other grandma will come and my grandad Ralph. We will play basketball. We will get some cow meat too. We will cook it up so we have enough meat for Thanksgiving. We will be so full! I am really thankful for my family. I love them!
Malachi Campbell
I go hunting for our Thanksgiving turkey. My Daddy and I go. We go in the woods. I sometimes use a nerf gun or a BB-gun. Me and my dad use a bag to carry it in. We take the turkey home and spray it with a hose. We cut off the feathers. I am starting to have a feather collection so I’ll add them to my collection. We take it inside and wash it again in the kitchen sink. It’s the biggest sink we have. I sprinkle “garma salt” that is from lichen on the turkey. We put it in the oven on 50 degrees for like 16 minutes. You know it is done when the oven is beeping. Then you put it on a big plate and cut it. I put ketchup on my turkey. We have macaroni and barbecue too. My grandparents come to my house and some of my cousins too. We also have pumpkin pie. Then we play. Sometimes cousins come and stay for one night. I am thankful for pumpkins and turkey. I am also very thankful for my cousins and grandparents and also my parents. I am thankful for everyone in my family, even the ones who have passed away. I hope everyone has a happy Thanksgiving!
Everett Simmons
I don’t know where we get our turkey. We may get it at the grocery store. You have to wash it in the kitchen sink. Mama puts it in a pan with a lid. You have to cook it for 2 hours in a hot oven. It has to cool off. I like mashed potatoes and gravy with it. We also have mac and cheese and also green beans. Daddy will have onions because he loves onions. He also likes bacon. We will go to Mimi’s and Pop- Pop’s house. Baby Briar comes too. Uncle Cody and Bethany will come too. We will eat and play games. I am thankful for my family and my bunny and my dogs and cats. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Hailey Hise Howard
We buy a turkey at the toy store. It’s not frozen so we don’t thaw it. We put blue seasoning and red seasoning and salt. My dad puts the seasoning on the turkey. You put it in the oven and have to make it really hot like 5 degrees and it is cooked for 7 hours. I play and watch TV while I wait for the turkey. My dad takes the turkey out and Mom cuts it. I eat it when I’m not playing. I dip my turkey in ketchup. I’ll eat French fries and apples and a cheese sandwich. I don’t have dessert. Zoey and Dad and Mom, and Colt eat with me. We play slides and tag. I’m thankful for Colt, Hunter, Josh, and my dad. My favorite part of Thanksgiving is playing with Colt.
Carter Cole
We get turkey from the woods. I get the turkey by myself. My dad cooks the turkey for 6 minutes in the oven. The oven isn’t hot. I don’t know what the temperature is. Salt and pepper and other things go on the turkey. I eat pepper and mac and cheese and stuffing. I don’t have dessert and I watch TV during Thanksgiving. I eat with my mom and dad. That’s it. I’m thankful for my family and my friends. I am excited for Thanksgiving. The food is my favorite part of Thanksgiving.
Aiden Whitelaw
I am pretty sure our turkey comes from Walmart. When we get it home we have to cut it with a big knife and put it in a big pan. My dad sprinkles it with salt. Then we put it in the oven on 5 degrees and you have to cook it for 4 minutes. You have to check it to see if it is done. If it is still frozen you have to keep cooking it. You might have to cook it for 4 hours. Then you can get it out and put it on a table. My mom makes some rice and probably some mashed potatoes. I also like to have mac and cheese and green beans. I love to have gravy with it too. All of my cousins come to my grandma’s house. We sit around a big table and eat. I hope we have some pumpkin pie. After we eat, my cousins and I will ride our bikes and play outside. I will ride my electric scooter. I am very thankful for having turkey and especially for my Mom and Dad.
Asa Sampson
Usually I get a turkey up the mountain at my dad’s house. We just set a big trap and it’s a live trap and it’s the size for a bear because I’ve seen that size before. Then, my dad puts him on the back of the truck alive and then he gets it out on the truck and first he hears something he was like, “There’s another turkey up the mountain!” And we went to like 8 a.m. and then we got it. That turkey was way up in the sky! And then bam! We got another. Now my daddy took it home and then he was going like one mile an hour. Then my mom cooks it with the feathers on it and then we eat it. Oh, we put on some seasoning. I would usually put ketchup. It’ll taste like turkey. We cook it in the stove for like 1,800 minutes. It’s like the same as a fire. So pretty hot. I usually just play hide and seek with my dog and when my dog finds me I have to run! Mama usually cuts the turkey. I just call her Katrina sometimes. I eat bear, deer, squirrels, grouse, there might be something else. Oh! Red wolves. I eat Thanksgiving with my dad and my mom. Hmm, sometimes with my grandad but he’s already in California. I’m thankful for the turkey, the bear, the grouse, the deer, and what else…the red wolves. One more. I don’t know. The end.
Charles Green