Thanksgiving

[rosarugosa]

That sounds like delightful conversation, Rogar! I hope it turns out to be as good as it sounds. I just got home from Mom duty and DH and I will have a quiet dinner at home with ravioli as the main attraction.

[Tybee]

Rogar, that does sound great, and the book list is such a good idea for a dinner party!
We ended up staying home snowed in and then lost power, but luckily I cooked the dinner early so by the time we lost power, we were fed.
Power back on about five hours later, which was also lucky.

[iris lilies]

Rogar, that does sound great, and the book list is such a good idea for a dinner party!
We ended up staying home snowed in and then lost power, but luckily I cooked the dinner early so by the time we lost power, we were fed.
Power back on about five hours later, which was also lucky.

I’m sorry you missed out seeing family.

I overcooked our “one pan” dinner so it was not very good.��

[Tybee]

I’m sorry you missed out seeing family.

I overcooked our “one pan” dinner so it was not very good.��

Thank you, it's par for the course up here that the weather is so unreliable at the holidays.
I was saying to husband if I knew we were going to have to cook dinner, I'd have tried a one pot Thanksgiving crock pot recipe. Maybe I should just plan for it for next year!

[pinkytoe]

As often happens, the kitchen plumbing went awry at DDs house. Her DH is leaving for 3 weeks on biz trip so headed to Home Depot for a new garbage disposal before heading back. Chaos whenever we visit it seems.

[Tradd]

I had a nice time with my goddaughter's family. Two hour drive each way. Left at noon, home at 10pm. Had a nap after dinner on one of the choices in the LR (many of us did this) so I was good for the drive home. B

[catherine]

Rogar, that does sound great, and the book list is such a good idea for a dinner party!
We ended up staying home snowed in and then lost power, but luckily I cooked the dinner early so by the time we lost power, we were fed.
Power back on about five hours later, which was also lucky.

I saw on the news that parts of the NE got a ton of snow! But we actually just got rain. I'm not sure if the next big storm in the Upper Midwest will impact us.

[rosarugosa]

We had a rainy day too, which is welcome after the prolonged drought and so many wildfires around us.

[Alan]

We enjoyed a nice early Thanksgiving celebration with our daughter and grand boys last weekend before leaving town for our annual winter wander about on Tuesday. The holiday itself turned out to be memorable, but not in a good way. We checked into a Corps Of Engineers campground in the middle of nowhere Mississippi on Thursday afternoon and within minutes of pulling into our reserved camping space, I spotted a dead man lying in the grass at the adjoining campsite about 40 yards away. Of course, I didn't realize he was dead right away, I just noticed that someone was laying on the ground in his underwear on a crisp and damp afternoon in late November. Thinking he may be injured or ill I went to investigate and determined that he was deceased right away. Called 911 and spent a couple of hours talking with responding Deputies and Coroner who speculated that he succumbed to alcohol poisoning or possibly just passed out the evening before and froze to death overnight. That speculation was fueled by the deputies finding approximately 15 vodka bottles in his camper, most of them empty.

I've been thinking about this guy ever since, alone on a holiday of thanksgiving, and not surviving it. Makes me want to cherish my family and friends all the more.

[iris lilies]

Alan, that is a sad image of that guy’s last hours.