Kitchen Preparation Duty

Your message said Thanksgiving is less than a week away and called for turkey help, so I marched straight into the kitchen on official culinary duty! Resting against a wooden cookbook stand was an open recipe notebook showing an illustrated roast turkey, right beside an upright sprig of dried fragrant rosemary. Bracing my white boots on the cool laminate, I wedged the crystal base of my floral staff under the sprig and hoisted it upward. It stood tall like a fragrant miniature pine tree, dusting the counter with tiny sweet leaves. I saluted the picture—kitchen rehearsals have officially begun!