MANITOWOC – Sure, we all love to sit down to a big table full of turkey, dressing, mashed potatoes and all the fixings on Thanksgiving, but not all of us want to work over a hot stove to get there.

MANITOWOC – The food was tasty, the weather in the beer garden was perfect (other than a few annoying wasps buzzing around) and the company — OK, my co-worker, Alisa Schafer — was top notch. But what ...