You can keep the turkey . we are having rib eyes, baked potato, salad, mixed berries with cool whip. Sunday all 3 girls are coming over, and i am making pumpkin pie cake, single layer chocolate cake and will buy a pie.. I am not a pie maker
I went grocery shopping today, because I needed to. It seems I end up in this spot every Thanksgiving. I went to Aldi, Kroger and Walmart. Aldi only had maybe 10 cars in the parking lot, and the other two were medium-busy. I was the 2nd or 3rd customer in line to check out at Kroger and Walmart. Maybe people already shopped. Or maybe they'll be in after work.
I have my turkey too. I usually get the $.39 draw turkey to donate to salvation army. The places that advertised them said: first come first served, and they were all gone. Giving a check is too easy. I used to like hauling in boxes of food for the warming shelter etc. But I don't think I am up to the task any more anyway. One year I gave boxes of Bella, my old cow. She is an acquired taste.
I needed to get some peanut oil because the stuff I had hit it's expiry date, and the shelves were bare. Then it hit me...turkey friers!!! At least when they replenish, it will be fresh.
Well, it is now Friday, and I guess we will be having turkey and dressing leftovers for lunch and dinner. I put up the Christmas Tree last night, and got all the decorations down from the attic this morning. Tree will be decorated this weekend or early next week. We don't do much out side, just a few lights on the palm tree. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, Hoot!!! I was listening to a talk show host last week who lives in New Jersey. He puts his decorations up in early November on an Indian Summer day rather than wait for Thanksgiving to roll around. He did not say exactly when they get taken down.
I put ours up a couple of weeks ago, outside, so I did not have to do it in the cold. I turned the lights on for company but probably won't again till December. I had a friend with a big display who left his up so he didn't have to do it again this year. He ran over some wires with his lawn tractor.
My Christmas decorating: Swap front door wreath: Check Take pre-decorated table-top tree from spare room closet and plug in: Check
Today is the day my wife engages her OCD--Obsessive Christmas Disorder. While others are out shopping, my wife is home changing almost everything in the house. All the dishes get changed, the curtains get changed, all the wall displays get changed, towels and bed linens are changed, even the ones in the guest rooms that are seldom used. I have always curtailed her OCD until the day after Thanksgiving, but she has free rein until after Epiphany. Things get back to normal rotation after that. Winter stuff stays up--snowmen and such. A few things change at Valentine's Day, St. Patties' Day, and much more get changed for Easter season. Spring stuff follows, etc., etc., etc.
Years ago I saw a guy launch a great product: digitally-controlled outdoor string lighting that had different modes for different seasons: Christmas, St. Patrick's Day, Independence Day, Veteran's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, etc. That way you can leave them up all year long and claim "I meant to do that," even if your home's not on wheels.
My daughter works at a big box store and I was worried that she was working today. Black Friday used to draw insane crowds with all check out lines going to the back of the store and then some. When she came to the barn after work, she said that it was no more crowded than a regular day. hmmmmmmm... Could the rumors be true that things are not so good?
Rumors on Facebook say that Target is busy, but Walmart is almost empty. Retailers were relying on the holiday shopping to recover some of the problems from the pandemic. I guess that isn't working. The Administration should be ecstatic.