Thanksgiving is coming up fast and I have a special place in my heart for wild turkeys as my mother once befriended one. She fed him cereal and he got to the point where he was more finicky than a five year-old. If it wasn’t sweet, he wouldn’t eat. He knew when she came back from the grocery store because he used to follow her from the car to the front door. “Tommy” was a very bold bird!

At the time, I was writing a  Kid Craft column  The Connecticut Post. Mom  had an obsession with picking up pine cones out of our yard. After awhile her collection got so large there were bowls and baskets of pine cones all over the house. That’s when I decided to put two and two together and came up with “pine Cone Table turkeys” they make great Thanksgiving place markers that you can use year after year>