Happy Thanksgiving my friends, my extended family since 1999, I just don't tell the "Other" family about you but maybe one day :shock:
It's a happy turkey day in Detroit, lions are mauling the Eagles. Some how though it doesn't seem right to not see lions fans freezing their butts off in the old stadium. BTW what was the name? U of D stadium? I wonder if returning to College football might look pretty attractive to Chip Kelly right now.
Yeah Terry we should have some in Texas again next March thru early May. They will probably be at HEB grocery and possibly Fiesta supermarket as a friend of mine from Tampa took over the produce purchasing for that grocery company. That's if we ever experience winter this season, at this point it's been non-stop summer, this is not productive to growing a peach.
Happy Thanksgiving a day late. I spent half my day in Moulton, Alabama listening to these crazy ass relatives of my wife (who did not attend the wedding) talking about how they have to be low key since the SPLC started investigating them for links to the Klan 5 years ago. This year those fringe parts of their family opened up to me once they found out I have confederate roots on one side of my family. I don't know either guys, I just go with it. The only sane person I know in that city is my buddy who is a school teacher... and he brews moonshine up on their family land just inside Bankhead forest. Then I spent the other half the day at my former in-laws, which is not as awkward as it may seem. Most of the people there are cool and having the baby means you get to blend in the background. There are still some leftovers that make things weird, but it's worth it to make sure my son gets to spend time with the other side of his family for the holidays. All in all a good day. No turkey frying though KP, I try to avoid November fireworks shows.
My son-in-law is a yankee transplant so I had to keep a close eye on him. I was with a combination of my family and my wife's....I don't which side is worse???? I will be with both daughter's and one of my brother's for the Auburn game today. Hopefully the hangover tomorrow will be because of an Alabama win....but I'm afraid there will be a hangover involve either way. 8)
Happy Thanksgiving to all. Mine was a little dull but that's ok...enjoyed dinner with my Dad and Stepmother at the assisted living place...dinner was actually quite good. Then went home and worked on my project of getting rid of stuff...we are downsizing from our house to a 3 bedroom condo...life will be much simpler. Usually we stay here for Christmas (this year as well) so the grandbabies can have Christmas in their own homes, which is how we feel it should be. They are all far out of town and live near the in-laws...so we try to let the in-laws have the kids for Christmas and we steal them for Thanksgiving. Usually we rent a big house in North Carolina or Gatlinburg because everybody is within driving distance of there (Orlando, Nashville, Dayton, OH, and Mansfield, OH)...but this year the kids wanted to do a cruise so we're all going on a cruise next week (15 of us). So looking forward to the Christmas cruise next week and got to be with my Dad for Thanksgiving as well as Christmas Day this year...life is good.
8) We had Thanksgiving dinner at Grady and Jenny's new house in Ontario. It's very small and we ate in the backyard despite the rain. Grady cooked the turkey with a Rube Goldberg contraption that looked like something from the game Mouse Trap. He built a primitive fire under a big kettle filled with oil. Then he lowered the bird into it with a system of pulleys that he had gerry-rigged to an aluminum ladder. He warned all the children to stay away from it, because he wasn't sure what it would do...
My stories are never as good as yours (whose are?)... But the year my Mom died we wanted to do something different for my Dad so we flew down to Orlando to Jeremy's house for Christmas and took Dad with us (our first grandchild and his first great grandchild had was just 9 months old there). So...Christmas in Florida...when Turkey Deep Fryers were all the rage. Susie and I bought a Turkey Fryer for the kids for Christmas (along with injectors, etc)...it didn't look like a huge fryer, so I bought what I thought was plenty of frying oil...2 gallons of it or so. (Big mistake for a guy whose usually a big RTM advocate). Christmas Day we go to fire the thing up and discover it required 5 gallons of oil...and of course all of the stores were closed. What to do? Jeremy's father in law was friends with a guy who owned a couple of McDonald's so he called him up and he graciously met us at one of his (also closed) McDonald's...went in and got us a big multiple gallon container of McDonald's french fry oil... So our Christmas turkey was cooked in McDonald's french fry oil...was actually quite good!