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Thanksgiving, 2012. For the first time in perhaps twenty years, we are not hosting Thanksgiving. My oldest sister has volunteered to have the celebration for her family and Dear Husband and me. It seems so very odd not to be cleaning, and cooking, and decorating tables!
We will be selling our home. We hope to put it on the market March 1st. We have a bit of work to be done in the basement, yet. This summer we boxed up all the china and most of the crystal. I still have all the silverware where I can get to it, but we would need to use Chinet paper plates (as we did last year), if we were hosting dinner. We’ve even boxed up the table cloths!
The real reason we are not hosting Thanksgiving, is that Dear Husband has had a knee replacement recently. His surgery was November 12th, and he needs to be the focus of my attention as he heals and recuperates. He’s doing very well. As a matter of fact, his physical therapist will be here in fifteen minutes, and I know he will strive to do EVERYTHING she asks, and more! *G* He should be back to a relatively normal life in three to five weeks, by Christmas, or New Year’s, I’d think.
For our Thanksgiving feast I will be making Vernice Kastman crescent rolls, and this year I’ll cook carrots. I know there will be at least one pan of just plain old buttered carrots, but there might be a second dish with something fancier. It depends on how I feel tomorrow morning as I pull things together. (I should tell you that no one other than My-Sister-The-Nurse will get any of the Vernice Kastman rolls. She’ll grab the bags of rolls and hide them in her bedroom!)
I have so very much to be thankful for. My husband has come through his surgery well. I still have all my siblings, and their children, and their children. Our children are all doing well, and our grand daughters are growing like weeds! We are sliding into retirement as our company slowly comes to a close. We are fortunate to have food and shelter, and love from our families. I hope you are all as fortunate.
Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Glad to hear that the surgery is behind your DH. He’s tough; but, I’m happy that he will soon be in a “happier” place with his body!
Only you and Peg (of Kansas Prairie blog) would have the luxury of taking a year to ready for a move. It’s been interesting following your progress.
Funny…Dudette sets the pans of crescent rolls that she bakes for Thanksgiving meals in thier bedroom (on the bed?). In all the years that I’ve been cooking, I don’t believe that I’ve ever stashed food in a bedroom – probably because my mom is still in my head whispering, “Food will draw bugs.” Of course, other than a few spiders and the occasional wasp, I’ve rarely seen a bug in this house (14 years’ occupancy, shortly).
Cop Car, I never meant to take this long getting the house ready for sale. Our realtor is rigorous in what he’s asking to make the house inviting. We’ve packet at least half of the main floor (more or less), and it looks like a normal house except for the book case in the hallway which is pretty bare. Unfortunately, the longer we stay, the more clutter takes over, so I’ll have to go through and pack more. It was irritating to have packed the winter clothes and now have to shift over wardrobes!
My sister hides the rolls in her bedroom simply to keep from having to share them. I doubt seriously that a bug would dare to enter her house, so I’m not worried. I make the rolls Thanksgiving morning, and she’ll have them by noon. How fast can one woman eat 60 rolls???
Like you, I’ve never stashed food for a celebration in my bedroom, but I have a lot of counter space and nooks and crannies where I can set things. I have to admit that we have used the garage as refrigerator, very temporarily! lol
Fourteen years! Can it really be that long? It seems to me that it was just the other day you moved into that house.
Happy Thanksgiving, my friend. I hope you and HH and your children and grandchildren are all well, thriving, and will have a lovely day with you!
Garages (and porches, if the food can be completely protected from critters) are good temporary food-stashing places. (I used some flags to see if WordPress allows them. Your last blog did not.)
If you read Bogie’s blog about her meal prep for yesterday, you’ll see that she even used her shed for food storage.
Flags?? Did Word Press allow them? I’m not sure what they are.
Yes, the garage is only a temporary storage place for food, and only that which is very well wrapped. We’d have to fight off too many critters if they thought there was a constant supply of food available.
I’ll read Bogie’s entries later this afternoon. I’m surprised she doesn’t get MUCH bigger critters looking for food, if they can smell it out in the shed! lol
Yay! WordPress allows them!
P.S. And your new blog makes it so much easier to leave comments. I like!
I’m so very glad that ~T~’s shift to Word Press is making it easier for you to visit. With any luck it will also make it possible for me to type entries on the office computer. I was worried that when our personal computer crashed that would be the end of my blogging because MT wouldn’t let me connect from the office computer.
Hope you had a great time with your family.
Thanksgiving is just about the only Americanism we haven’t adopted over here. It’s also just about the only one I would welcome!
Hey, BW, nice to see you! I’ll be b to see what you’ve been up to, now that Fred is becoming more independent.
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite times of the year. I’d really like my family to make it a tradition that every person says one thing they are thankful for, before the feasting begins. I’d also really appreciate it if stores were closed for the day. All this stuff about Black “Friday” irritates the heck out of me, when we should be focusing on how fortunate our lives have been, and the sales rush is starting Thanksgiving evening now.
Clarification – I kept food in the leanb-to attached to the house. it has not entrances (except from the house) and a metal roof. nothing except mice can get in there and I make sure food either has an extra heavy lid, or is inside a cooler so the mice can’t get in. I also keep food out on the deck – but only for a couple of hours. Don’t want to tempt the bears (any more than the bird feeders).
Bogie–Sorry that it was only later that I realized to what you had been referring. Sorry to have had the wrong mental switch flipped.
Bogie, I was thinking of the bears you’ve talked about in past posts. I can see where the lean to would be relatively safe. We tend to use coolers for things in the garage, because we have a regular highway for mice, and I don’t care to share.
I always appreciate it when Mother Nature lends me a hand keeping the overflow cold. *S*