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Subject: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bobert Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:05 PM Well, well, well... So much for tradition as the P-Vine's kids have made their plans without us this year so... ... we're gonna have all the "holler" misfits and unattached up for Thanksgiving... Ougtta be a hoot... Let's see, Donnie "I'm a drunK" Pettit, Mr. "Cranky" Clifford, George "Can't hear a lick" and his very sickly wife, David "The F-Word" and his very sickly wife an'a couple of folks who rent from me down in Luray... Two days ago it was gfonna be just me and the P-Vine and now we're up to 12 and countin'... Hmmmmmmm?... At this rate, we'll prolly end up with 15 or so folks right out of a "One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest"... Oh well... So what are other folks doing??? Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST,.gargoyle Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:11 PM
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:08 PM Eating or serving? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Rapparee Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:20 PM Gonna go to Strongbow Inn here in Valparaiso, Indiana with friends. They specialize in turkey there. Tomorrow I'm going into Chicago to see the new Tut exhibit at the Field Museum. It's supposed to be as good as the first one, back in 1977. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: jacqui.c Date: 21 Nov 06 - 10:25 PM Dinner with Kendall's daughter is a tradition. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: wysiwyg Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:05 PM Rap's in VALPO? Heck, we pass through there almost regularly. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bee-dubya-ell Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:20 PM All the relatives that would usually come visit us are going off to bother other people this year. Looks like it's gonna be just another day. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: number 6 Date: 21 Nov 06 - 11:30 PM "just another day" Another day to hear the music, another day to see the sky, another day to go out for a walk, another day to taste a pumpkin pie, another day to reread your favourite book, another day ... Another day ... a lot to be thankful for. biLL |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 06 - 03:45 AM Interesting subject this "Thanksgiving" Is this not when the Americans set down with the natives and shared dinner. And then shortly after it conned them out of their land ? Correct me if I am wrong. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Charley Noble Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:08 AM We host Thanksgiving at our house this year, which means we get to clean up the house for the first time in years. What joy! My mother will be coming, along with Judy's brother and his wife, and they get to see several of our home improvement projects in "process." Fortunately, the bathroom "improvements" are mostly completed; the throne is functional! The cat gang will be delighted with the big bird leftovers, although I'm not sure what the other folks around the table will think when they jump up on the table to help themselves from the platter... This will be fun, no? Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Clinton Hammond Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:16 AM It's 11 months until Thinksgiving... who's thinking about plans this early? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: mack/misophist Date: 22 Nov 06 - 09:39 AM I'm thinking about making a production out of it this year. I may send out for Chinese. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bill D Date: 22 Nov 06 - 10:13 AM Drive....Eat...digest...sing...drive....sleep. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Scoville Date: 22 Nov 06 - 10:17 AM We never go anywhere but we look forward to staying in and watching the dog show. Seriously--I look forward to that more than anything else, even though my favorite breeds never win (although we were pretty happy a couple of years ago when the Newfoundland did). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: wysiwyg Date: 22 Nov 06 - 11:26 AM I seem always to be able to spot the Best in Show as soon as it enters the ring. Wish I could make money on it! T'giving is one of the very few annual holidays that is not also a church holiday, so it is a real day off for Hardi and we generally do not include others in this sort of holiday. We usually spend this sort of day sleeping in, feasting on the breakfast he eventually makes in his pajamas, watching TV sports or old movies, and eventually one of us gets the creative urge to explore the kitchen to start a holiday meal. Recipes will be created on the spot, all day from there on in (a bit competitively) as one of us at a time goes to the kitchen with a grin to execute something that's been brewing mentally for an hour or two. By 9 PM there may or may not be a large dinner on the seldom-used, candlelit dining room table, with ice water and wine poured. Or we may hors d'ouvre it all day in a succession of tasty treats to surprise one another. All I know at this point is, we have some of the usual T'giving food suspects already incarcerated as well as a few other interesting items in the freezer, and there may be a trip late tonight to the all-night grocery to supplement these. Of course there will be weeks worth of dinners-for-two once it's all over (say by Friday evening), to stow away in the fridge and freezer awaiting our return to our crazy-busy life. This is all done in jammies except the times we must go out. Tonight, probably a hockey game on the radio for two adjoining recliner-occupants huddled under blankets-- the heat's not working right and it's COLD!! Prep today-- washing the several weeks worth of not-quite-finished loads of dishes that have been piling up while we were crazy-busy-- so we have a clear playing field tomorrow. I drew this duty this year. ~Susan |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: SINSULL Date: 22 Nov 06 - 12:16 PM Dinner with Bat Goddess and Curmudgeon is a tradition. Then sleep in the guest room with the bats. Note to self: check shoes and undies before donning them. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: JenEllen Date: 22 Nov 06 - 12:27 PM Initial plans were a nice, quiet day off from work. Something along the old Muppet lines of: "Finish work, go home, read a book, have a couple of beers, take myself for a walk and go to bed". Those plans have subtly morphed into a huge potluck and game night at my house. I get to learn a new card game called "Spite and Malice"--The general consensus being that I'll be a fast learner. (I can't help it if my graciousness in defeat is matched only by my humility in victory). I just have to figure out the safest way to do the victory dance with a belly full of pie. *bg* Here's hoping y'all have blessed days and good folks to share them with. ~J |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: SINSULL Date: 22 Nov 06 - 12:35 PM Get some practice here for free, JE: http://www.gamesville.lycos.com/games/spiteMalice?FOD=1& |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Sorcha Date: 22 Nov 06 - 12:45 PM Bah Humbug. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: JenEllen Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:00 PM FANTASTIC, Sins! Nothing more spiteful or malicious than a late night cram session so I can whup butt tomorrow! I'm going to try it! *bg* Still it'll be hard to top last year. I got so worked up over a stupid UNO game that I threw the deck at the guy who won (more of that quiet dignity and grace I spoke of earlier). Some of the cards actually went between the sliding window panes. I ended up outside in the cold and dark, prying the screen off of the window to get the cards back. I had my temper to keep me warm...LOL ~MizJE |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Scoville Date: 22 Nov 06 - 01:48 PM The rule at our place is that if you can't help us get dinner on the table (or if you object to serving yourself food-line style from the kitchen rather than have all the food on the dining room table), you're not invited. We don't like to go anywhere but after the dog show we're going to a friend's for dessert. She has small grandchildren, though, so we figure we'll have an excuse to leave once they get sleepy and need the house to be quiet. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Wesley S Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:01 PM We're still unboxing stuff at the new house - but there is light at the end of the tunnel.We had to buy a cheap aluminum roasting pan since we can't find the real one - we're pretty sure it's still in storage. We expect a few folks to drop by tomorrow - like the brother-in-law with his new wife. But overall just a quite day with the usual menu. However you plan to spend the day I hope you have many things to be thankful for. May there be plenty of the food of your choice on your table and good friends and family to share it with. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: kendall Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:11 PM When was Canada,s first thanksgiving? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Wesley S Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:15 PM 1879 |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bat Goddess Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:44 PM Sins, only banjo players don their attire without checking the interior first. And it only happened ONCE, fer-pete's-sake! I dunno if we have any bats left -- I think the flying squirrels chased them away. We DO have a raccoon in the cellar. Tom baited and set the Hav-A-Heart yesterday, went upstairs and heard the trap snap shut. He went back downstairs to investigate and found an annoyed raccoon OUTSIDE the trap, trying to snag the jelly donut bait. He looked up at Tom with a look on his face like, "You're gonna get me that donut, right?" Welcome to the Wildlife Sanctuary! (Can we get a tax break?!?) Arghhh! I love living in the middle of the woods! Oh, Jeri will be at dinner tomorrow, too. And I suppose Curmudgeon will be wearing his Pilgrim chapeau while cooking. And on Friday we're welcoming a new felinity to the household! Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: LilyFestre Date: 22 Nov 06 - 02:47 PM Ahhhhhhhh Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving Break! I'm not sure which I look forward to the most! In an hour or so, I'll start making cranberry sauce and pumpkin bread. Ridge Plucker will make the apple pie in the morning and we'll join the rest our of family while the pie is still warm. Some friends will be joining us and I am really looking forward to the day. Of course there will be turkey, Mom's German stuffing and all the other fixings but mostly I am looking forward to being with my family and friends tomorrow! It won't be a crowd but a small group of folks who love one another...what more can a body ask for? :) As for my Thanksgiving Break, I'm looking forward to sleeping in, getting ahead with some work (ok...not a lot...but definately some...I just can't leave it alone!), visiting friends, making new curtains for the kitchen and for a friend's nursery, adding a music room to our house (construction starts Friday), and of course, a family tradition, Black Friday. :) I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! Michelle |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bobert Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:40 PM Well, since starting this thread we have picked up two more folks who had no plans so we are nhow up to 10 misfits and reprabates... But they will be well fed misfits and reprabates come tomorrow as the P-Vine has been busy all day slicin', dicin' and all that T-G stuff... We have two turkey breasts brining away in the outside refrigerator... Now, how about that bean thing with the onion rings and cream of possum soup caserole??? Okay, you all know what I mean... We've all eaten a variation of it... Well, we ain't havin' it... Nope... I went down to Mr. Cliffords this morning an' filled up a paper grocery bag with kale and so we're gonna break tradition and serve kale... But, kale or not, the best to all my Mudcat friends and hopes that your T-day will be the bestest... Bobert |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 06 - 07:59 PM True facts about thanksgiving.. if you don't know the real story about how Americans shared food with the Indians, took their help then stole all their land then gave them disease then enslaved them, read up on it before your dinner. A lot to celebrate ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: bobad Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:04 PM Thanks Killjoy - "Life is bad enough, reality is ten times worse." |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Kaleea Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:10 PM I am truly thankful, because I do not have to cook a Thanksgiving meal with all the trimmings, nor do I have to clean up the mess. The bad news is that I won't have any leftover turkey. The good news is that I won't have any leftover leftover turkey. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: catspaw49 Date: 22 Nov 06 - 08:29 PM Karen's been working too many hours and we're not doing squat. Matter of fact, I'm even cooking beef! Turkey may be good for you but everything I know how to do and love to eat with leftover turkey is fattening as hell and I need to lose weight desparately. I'm 40 pounds up over my hospital discharge weight last December and I'm breathing too hard and the heart is working too hard. 25-30 pounds and things will be farrrr better. The rest of y'all can eat the turkey pie, Kentucky Hot Brown, turkey and noodles over mashed taters, etc. So enjoy it for me and..... BITE THE BIRD!!!Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 22 Nov 06 - 11:04 PM So nice of you to let that woman you are always complaining about, cook for ten of your miscreant friends, bobblehead. But then, you're a republican. I would expect as much... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Peter Kasin Date: 23 Nov 06 - 04:28 AM We have some great family traditions at our California thanksiving. Grandma sets the steamed tofu on the table while talking on her cell phone. Mom and dad carve the imperial rolls with hoisin sauce. Sis and junior are in charge of the Blackberry pie, which is very hard to cut and makes strange mechanical noises. Uncle Poindexter, decked out in his cardigan v-neck sweater and bowtie, sings Grateful Dead songs while playing his hammered dulcimer, accompanied by aunt Betty on her kazoo. After dinner, we settle in for a family hot tubbing, and turn on the traditional jacuzzi, pouring a bottle of fine sparkling applecrangrapeplumraspberrylemon. Our neighbors then drop by for some group therapy with their sons Kyle, Tyler, Kyle, Kyle, and Max, and daughters Jennifer, Jennifer, and Jennifer. The evening ends with everyone hugging the leftover tofu platter. Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Old Guy Date: 23 Nov 06 - 07:54 AM We are having 20 guests today for ham, turky etc. All my children and grandchildren except for 2, inlaws, outlaws and the extended family from Chicago are here. We cleaned and cooked our own pumpkin last night for the best part, punkin pie. The main event is when my wife, Dr. Maw, plays Over The River And Thro The Wood on the piano and we all sing along. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Linda Goodman Zebooker Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:34 AM This year, just for once, I have NO special Thanksgiving plans. Ever since 1970, when I attempted my first turkey, I've spent the day mostly preparing to cook and cooking. Close-ish family is all out of state, or out of the county, and I've been doing a lot of traveling all fall. A co-worker has invited me, but I'm not going. I plan to spend most of today, tomorrow and the remainder of the weekend cleaning and organizing an incredibly messy apartment, and getting ready for the rest of my life. Something to be thankful for all by itself! Have a wonderful day, everybody :*) Linda |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bat Goddess Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:32 AM Anybody remember (from the '50s or maybe very early '60s) -- Over the river via the cloverleaf To Grandma's house we go. Daddy-o knows the way To drive the freeway By the path that's free of a toll. Linn |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Becca72 Date: 23 Nov 06 - 11:56 AM I am working at my 2nd job today, doing transcription for the radiology dept. of a local hospital so that one of my coworkers can take the day off and spend it with their family. Double time and no drama...you can't beat that with a stick! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST,Desdemona Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:02 PM I've been hosting Thanksgiving dinner at my house since my youngest was born, so we're continuing with that tradition; we'll have around 15 people this year. Making this an especially memorable one is the fact that my eldest son turns--gasp!--TWENTY today, which is definitely something to be thankful for (for awhile there it looked like I might still be in labour on his 20th birthday...ouch), if more than a little surreal. I wish everyone a very happy day doing just as they please! ~D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: frogprince Date: 23 Nov 06 - 12:16 PM "Uncle Poindexter, decked out in his cardigan v-neck sweater and bowtie, sings Grateful Dead songs while playing his hammered dulcimer, accompanied by aunt Betty on her kazoo." Chanteyranger, that is such a great picture of non-traditional tradition that I kinda hope it's literally true. If you all don't actually do that on Bird Day, someone should be doing it! Traditions evolve; we will set out soon, as we have for the last few Thanksgivings, to dine with my father-in-law's girlfriend's household at her granddaughter's house. Tomorrow we will go a few miles further away to have "mainly leftovers" with blood relatives, some coming from a couple of states away. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST,mg Date: 23 Nov 06 - 03:43 PM Well I planned to drive to Tacoma to my sister's house but most people would not be able to make it this year and I woke up too tired to drive that far...so I went to McDonald's for breakfast, and went to the store for some magazines, and recycled a bunch of stuff from my car and came in to work to use the computer since my home one is toast. Weather is frequently changing, getting stormy again. Later I will go home and do a couple of loads of wash. Quite a perfect day. Happy Thanksgiving to all across the world. mg |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 23 Nov 06 - 04:47 PM Listening to my twenty year old niece whine about not being able to go out tonight after Thanksgiving dinner is getting old. Listening to my 83 year old father complain about losing his Yahoo home page, is getting old. Listening to the cousins argue is driving me crazy! Help, I'm trapped with my relatives! yikes! Bring on the food... |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST,Scoville at Dad's Date: 23 Nov 06 - 05:54 PM Damn--the toy poodle won Best in Show. I knew that was going to happen. We were rooting for the Great Pyrenees (my mother loves Pyrenees). |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: mack/misophist Date: 23 Nov 06 - 09:43 PM Now that the day is here, I decided not to splurge on Chinese food; left over hamburger, frozen cauliflower, and sauteed peppers instead. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Desdemona Date: 24 Nov 06 - 08:40 AM I watched the dog show while basting the turkey (meanwhile, my dog was watching the trkey show every time I opened the oven), and was also rooting for the Great Pyrenees, but was unsurprised that the toy poodle won...it was like a doggie interpreted as a topiary! ~D |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 24 Nov 06 - 08:44 AM What about the Indians ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Charley Noble Date: 24 Nov 06 - 09:46 AM The best part of Thanksgivings is walking up late at night and raiding the refrigerator! Everything went well here in Maine. I agree that Chantyranger wins the creative Thanksgiving award, fiction or reality, he gets all the points I can award him. And here's a virtual left-over drumstick for mg in Washington state. Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Bee Date: 24 Nov 06 - 10:49 AM Have a happy one, U.S. Mudcatters. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST,Scoville Date: 24 Nov 06 - 04:24 PM My personal feeling is that anything with that much hair ought to have to be shown shaved. I'm for either natural coats or no coats. I think the "topiary breeds" encourage mental illness among their owners/handlers/groomers. (I've got an American Eskimo dog; trimming is prohibited by breed standards. Not that I show dogs, anyway.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: RangerSteve Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:09 PM I drove down to my brother's house in SC, usually a 10 to 11 hour drive. 11 hours after leaving NJ, I was only two thirds of the way there. At one point, it took 6 hours to go 60 miles. I seriously considered turning around and going home, but I promised my Mom I'd be there, and she's in a nursing home and I refuse to disappoint her. The last leg of the drive on Thursday morning was hardly better. Massive traffic jams in rural areas where nobody lived, and absolutely no reason for the jams, no accidents, nothing. They just happend. It took me 6 hours to go about 200 miles. But the dinner was great and in the end, almost worth the trip. I don't think I'll do it again, though. I had to drive back on Friday, because my health insurance refused to cover dialysis in South Carolina. And, Guest, who hates Thanksgiving, I'm part Native American. I got over it, so can you. Steve |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: SINSULL Date: 24 Nov 06 - 11:31 PM Good for you, Steve. I spent Thanksgiving with Curmudgeon, Jeri, a raccoon, a squirrel and BatGoddess but I just realized Tom (Curm. not the turkey) never donned his Thanksgiving costume. Fie! Fie, I say. Tomorrow I cook a turkey breast and most of the trimmings including creamed onions just for me. SINS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Nov 06 - 12:15 AM Quote from WYS.... "feasting on the breakfast he eventually makes in his pajamas" Now THAT is a picture worth seeing... just mind where you put the mustard... LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Peter Kasin Date: 25 Nov 06 - 02:53 AM Well, it started out as always, but ended up with a slight twist. We gathered in the living room before eating, for a prune soda toast. Aunt Betty brought a turkey, then announced the serving of the turkey with a blast from her kazoo. It really startled the turkey, which leapt onto the table, knocking over three of the rare 17th-century prune soda glasses brought out just for the occasion. Uncle Poindexter slipped on spilled juice, and plunged head-first into his hammered dulcimer, tangling his hair in the strings. He tried to wheel himself, face down with the dulcimer, to the bathroom, looking for scissors. However, on the way, he bumped into aunt Betty, who swallowed her kazoo. After giving her the Heimlich maneuver, the kazoo squirted out and knocked junior in the head. Thinking that someone had hit him on purpose, he grabbed the closest person to him, which was Poindexter, and shoved him, face still in the dulcimer, towards the dinner table, which tipped and catapulted all the food into the air, sticking to the ceiling. Police were called, and pried off the food, then pried Poindexter loose with a Slim Jim. Other than that, it was uneventful. Chanteyranger |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Liz the Squeak Date: 25 Nov 06 - 09:08 AM But what happened to the turkey Chantey?? Enquiring minds (with very little to occupy them this Saturday afternoon) want to know! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Charley Noble Date: 25 Nov 06 - 09:57 AM Chanteyranger- You wouldn't be just a-pulling our pinfeathers, would you? I assume the ceiling was texured as a 1970's relief map of the Rocky Mountains. Is it too early to make reservations for your next year's family gathering? We could bring a covered-dish to pass, pagan-pink jellowed salad with marshmellows! Cheerily, Charley Noble |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Melani Date: 27 Nov 06 - 09:53 PM Our house is so trashed that we are hoping for clean-up by Christmas, maybe, so we left town for Thanksgiving. We went to the Sierra Club's Clair Tappaan Lodge, near Truckee, CA, where they have had Thanksgiving dinner for something like 72 years. There wasn't enough snow to ski, so we hiked around the Donner Party's campsite, which is a rather weird way to spend a traditional feast day. Had turkey and all the usual for dinner. Chanteyranger, you are really strange. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: Donuel Date: 28 Nov 06 - 12:44 PM To visit grandma I drove a 1000 miles and made the wife happy. It was easier than cleaning out the untility room. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:18 PM Hope you all had a good 'un. Of course there's no such feast here, though, since we ended up going to three Christmas Bazaars it was a celebratory day anyway. Teasing letter in today's Guardian, responding to a leader the other day speculating as to whether we should introduce Thanksgiving here: The UK should have Thanksgiving as a festival (Leaders, November 22). We could celebrate it on July 4. JA Brough Mansfield, Nottingham |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: RangerSteve Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:36 PM This year, thanks to disability retirement, I qualify to be on the recieving end of the town food drive. I've always tried to donate to food drives in the past, content with nothing in return but a good feeling, and it's paid off. I got a 12 pound turkey, which I cooked the a couple of days after I got home from my trip down south. It was the first time I'd ever cooked a turkey, and all modesty aside, it was perfect. The left overs are in the freezer, for future turkey based dinners. Lot's of other goodies were delivered, along with a few duds - canned peas, canned stringbeans, canned carrots. I'll donate them to another food drive for Christmas. On TV cooking shows, making a perfect turkey is akin to brain surgery. I rubbed it with salt and pepper, stuck it in the oven and basted it twice. No stuffing. No exotic spices. I don't know why people on TV insist on complicating things. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: bobad Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:44 PM I'm with you there on roasting a turkey, Ranger, that's how I do it except for one diff, I put it in breast side down for all but the last 20 - 30 min. to crisp up the skin. This ensures a very juicy breast, just the way I like 'em. BTW I roast chicken the same way with the same results. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: GUEST Date: 28 Nov 06 - 01:45 PM No Stuffing ? The Indians got stuffed ! |
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Subject: RE: BS: Thanksgiving Plans???.... From: LilyFestre Date: 28 Nov 06 - 03:46 PM My Thanksgiving was wonderful and my break has been throrougly (is that spelled right?) enjoyed! I go back to work tomorrow well rested and raring to go! A university professor asked me to come in as a Guest Speaker and I went in and spoke today....it went very well with lots of participation from the students....I am most happy!!!! Michelle |
