Holiday thoughts

I had the pies and dinner rolls done yesterday. This morning, for pre-feast nosh... a plate of deviled eggs were made and a bag of walnut sized red potatoes were baked, scooped out.....the 'scooped' was mixed with lots of sour cream, finely diced shallots, ground white pepper, piped back into the little potato shells and topped with a dab of caviar.......that's my contribution to dinner. Now I'm off to soak in a bubble bath, and take my time to primp, then I'll be swept off to dinner at "the kid's place".

I'm thankful I taught my son to cook and that he married a woman who actually LIKES to do dishes ;), I'm thankful that the recliner is reserved for Mom and there's a strategically placed side table for a glass(es) of wine, I'm thankful I don't have to clean up (before or after) and I'm thankful this is the one day of the year when we declare gravy a "food group". And I'm *really* thankful for all the wonderful people on RCTQ!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Val

We're having a ham drizzled with honey and sprinkled with brown sugar (First time I've tried this), canned sweet potatoes with a bit of brown sugar, cornbread stuffing, corn, peas, steamed asparagus, baked acorn squash, Brussel sprouts, fresh carrots, celery, black olives, gherkin pickles, cranberry sauce, cottage cheese, Hawaiian Rolls, with Sara Lee blueberry and cherry pies for dessert. This is a EASY on the cook dinner this year :)

Save a turkey....eat ham.

Butterfly

Our thanksgiving started with a 2 hour power outage, obviously not due to the weather this time (we were amongst the million or so homes without power due to windstorms before Christmas last year), but thankfully they sorted it fairly quickly. It's been the poke up the backside we needed to be more prepared for this kind of thing and we spent some time a Bartells stocking up on emergency supplies!

Anne

The pig still had to make the supreme sacrifice (vbg> I haven't seen too many 3-legged pigs snorting around. Cheers Bronnie - sorry, couldn't resist that one!

I think I ate so much that I added another handle....

Dogmom

Thanks. Same back at you. I was in such a funk yesterday I was sure I'd have a horrible day. I had minor heart surgery a week ago and wasn't really able to put on a big dinner, and my Dad is in hospital really bad sick. My daughter had to work, my sis stayed at the hospital with Dad. That's all that remains of our little family. So DH & I, and our son went to a restaurant. But weirdly enough, I was really thankful to even be there, thankful that the rest of the family is intact, and that we were able to go to a crappy restaurant and eat horrible buffet food. :-)

Sherry

Sherry-

I'm glad you found some bright spot in what could have been a not-so-good day. I will pray for your father.

My almost-ex stopped by to pick up a television and I made some pancakes and sausage- that was Thanksgiving dinner for both of us. LOL I was invited to a big 'do' but decided to pass on that.

But The HairyButt Gang and I enjoyed a day of just goofing around and doing a few tidying up type things. It was a good day- every extra day I get with my precious Missy girl is a good day..

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies >> Here's wishing everybody a wonderful Holiday celebration. Don't eat

That's an easy concept to GRASP!

Val

Oh, thanks, Taria. I had a quad bypass several years ago. Since then an artery in my heart was kind of "folded over". They just had to straighten it and stent it. It turned out fine. My dad originally needed prostate surgery, one thing led to another and he ended up with aneuryism surgery, bypass surgery and having 3 toes amputated. Too much trauma for a 74-year-old body at once, methinks. He isn't doing well. Thanks for the prayers. That's the best thing anybody can offer. I could get into a real funk if I didn't try. Pity, party of one? LOL. Still, we had some new memories for this year!! We're still talking about how dreadful the food was. That'll make us all more grateful for a "normal" T-giving next year.

Sherry

Sometimes the holiday without the "do" is best. Scritches for MIssy-- hope she's here to see many more holidays.

Sherry

On Nov 22, 12:17 pm, John wrote:

After reading other peoples tales of woe, I thought I would tell you ours. My wife went out to the garden last week to plant some bulbs. Now this is not anything for most people to be cautious about. But you see, if there is any poison oak or poison ivy anywhere within 3 miles of where she is digging around in the dirt, then she will become infected. Most people think that there is a season for poison ivy, spring and summer. Well let me disabuse you of that notion. You can tell where this is going already I am sure. Yes 5 days ago she came down with the tell tale rash on her arms and this time it was a duezzy. It caused swelling and the worst rash and eruptions I have ever seen in my life. I had to take her to the doctor for predizone steroid shots and we have spent the week changing dressings and helping her get around the house. Her arm was so swollen that she could not move it and her fingers couldn't grasp anything. Needles to say, that lovely 5 course thanksgiving dinner that we always look forward to was out of the question. So what did we do for thanksgiving? Well we had some packaged Indian dishes that we had picked up from the Indian food store that we sometimes go to, as they looked like they would be fun to have when you didn't have any time to make the real thing from scratch. That saved the day. It was a special dinner that we will probably always remember, and laugh about. The year of the Poison Ivy. I am not sure if that is on the Buddhist calendar but we celebrated it anyway.

John

Oh my. A poison ivy reaction that severe can be dangerous, too, or so I've heard. It doesn't affect me but DH is like your wife. Sounds fun to have a nontraditional, interesting meal though. Sherry

WHOA STOP!!!!!!!! Don't you go having a party of one. NO WAY! We love Parties and we'll take them any time and almost anyway we can have em. So ya wanna PARTY Say so....we'll join in and really have a good 'cry' and then a smile and pass the M&M's round.

Know someone on here does a Prayer Wheel of some sort--sorry don't know much about them.

What's that saying about a share of troubles and a share of happiness. something about one being divided? (help, I know what I mean just can't remember it correctly)

My Wings are on their way...wrap them round yourself and just let them do their thing.

Butterfly ( it's almost like waiting for the next shoe to fall sometimes....you don't have to wait alone on here..we'll come sit with you until you kick us out)

Please keep an eye on her...Bro got it and it went into his lungs even AFTER he was on Prednisone...ended up in the hospital for over a week. Said it felt like he was breathing smoke in every time he took a breath.

Hope she gets better quickly. Butterfly

She is on the mend. and taking a course of prescription meds. It has now stopped swelling and it doesn't weep any more. It should be all gone by next weekend. This was the most severe reaction I have ever seen her get. She usually gets a bit of it every year and it spreads from me to her or from our dog to her. But nothing like this. She must have handled the stuff without thinking it was there as she was pulling out "weeds" in order to plant the bulbs. She said she was moving to a 12th story high rise apartment in a concrete landscaped city, and if I wanted to come along then fine. She calmed down later after the meds seemed to be taking effect. I don't seem to be affected by the stuff so I am oblivious to it. It is a mean looking rash, with a lot of alligator looking skin, so you don't want to have any contact with it. Maybe the high rise apt. doesn't sound so bad after-all. She says that she has officially given up gardening of any kind from here on in. And, I am authorized to beat her unmercifully if she tries to do any more of that kind of thing. That not being my style, I will wait until the spring and gently remind her of this event, and see if she is still committed to gardening abstinence.

John

"Friends double our joys and divide our sorrows"

Is that the phrase you wanted? Besides, friends are there with a shoulder to ry on, or lean on, and a clean hankie if we need it. And, they bring chocolate, or tea, and a smile to share. Knowing you have friends makes the day more bearable.

G> WHOA STOP!!!!!!!!

You did plant her bulbsfor her? Right?

I've been prevented from doing my year end tidying and planting by this thrice bedammened glandular infection. I keep hinting that it would be nice if somebody else did it, but may end up beating everyone with a stick to at least get the morning glory vines chopped down.

NightMist A spatter of snow >