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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Jamisjockey on November 22, 2017, 12:29:10 PM
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How's everyone celebrating Thanksgiving?
We're staying in town but eating with friends and their family.
Weather looks good, I'm expecting to get in a 2 hour ride in the morning too. Burning calories off before the eating and drinking commences!
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Spending it with special lady friends family.
I'm smoking turkey's for it today. Two 12 lb birds. For her family and extended family. No pressure! =)
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Wife's aunt's house as per our usual. We typically spend turkey day and Christmas Eve with her dad's side of the family at her aunt's.
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Get up early, head to my brothers. Set up popup deer blinds in the AM for December gun season. Chainsaw out shooting lanes.
Eat lunch with his wife and my wife. Try to be back home by 2pm and head to the deer stand.
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Hosting dinner for my Mom and the in-laws. Wife may or may not feel up to helping with dinner. I'm cool either way, I love it when I get to do larger scale cooking.
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Same as always, except a little less festive since my mom and niece (and Romy) have passed. My nephew-in-law is a good guy, and his Mexican family doesn't do much for Tday, so he's coming up here with my grand niece for a couple of days so she can ride her electric four wheeler around the farm and play with the chickens and stuff.
I would normally also go dove hunting, but there's practically no dove population this year, and I just can't bring myself to go without Romy.
Man. That's a bit more depressing than I wanted to come off.
I hope everyone in the APS family has a great Thanksgiving though! :)
Oh, we're also supposed to have record breaking temps - probably close to 80. Which kinda sucks, because usually one of my favorite things is the Tday fire in the wood stove. This year, I might be turning on the AC. :laugh:
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Front brakes and oil change on the truck. Maybe some time at the reloading bench. I like to have something to do on holidays because generally, the more members of my family get together, the bigger the argument.
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How's everyone celebrating Thanksgiving?
We're staying in town but eating with friends and their family.
Weather looks good, I'm expecting to get in a 2 hour ride in the morning too. Burning calories off before the eating and drinking commences!
Everyone to my sister's house, ~30 miles away, eat and talk.
My son says he'll be there, which will be nice, since we tend to not see him for long stretches.
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Staying home just me and the wife. Since mom died last month and my sister has been driving a lot for last few years she wanted to stay at her home and have her adult kids come there.
I'm going to rework some cabinets and counter in the laundry room and hopefully do some bowhunting for the deer I haven't had time to shoot.
8 pound turkey breast slow smoked in the charcoal fired pit barrel cooker and whatever wife does in the kitchen.
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Just me, the missus, the dog, and possibly a flock of wild turkeys that have decided to hang out in our neighborhood. Which is convenient. >:D
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I took today off and my wife should be arriving home soon from a half-day of school. We are then loading up the dog, food, and heading for the Edmonds-Kingston ferry to go to my wife's sister's home on Bainbridge Island. They have been hosting Thanksgiving for the past few years. We were assigned to bring the green bean casserole and sweet potato pudding this year. The worst part about the event is that we have to wait several hours in the ferry line both going to and from.
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We just arrived in SW VA to spend Thanksgiving with my in-laws. I packed my Encore 35 Whelen carbine and some blaze orange and will spend part of the day wondering around a nearby WMA looking for a buck. My effort will be half-hearted as I don't think I want to deal with butchering and packing this weekend. It'll be more about walking around the woods with a gun. :)
Chris
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It'll be more about walking around the woods with a gun. :)
Chris
Always a good thing to do. :)
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Still deciding; cousins are doing the usual Thanksgiving, but nobody's coming from out of town for it, so just the ones I see fairly regularly anyway. If I ride out there, that would be 10 miles each way toward burning off the turkey, though. Alternative is mom's church is doing a Thanksgiving activity that's more likely to have a few friends I haven't seen in years, and possibly more deviled eggs than the cousins.
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Dinner with friends. Glad I don't have to travel anymore.
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First Thanksgiving in the brand new house and kitchen. Should have a bunch of guests. Wife burned muffins on Sunday, so we're calibrating the ovens by sacrificing a couple of roasts. Found out both ovens are over 100 degrees off (250=350, 350=480). I hope everything goes OK. We'll be calling the stove manufacturer on Friday.
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That's too bad about the ovens, must have been built on Monday morning. ;)
If set at 250 and was really 480 I could tell you the problem, you have European stoves.... but that isn't quite the temp diff.
bob
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Oh man..... I'm still not sure what I've gotten myself into.... But tomorrow we're going to have 28 people in my house. 16 adults, 12 kids...
24 lb turkey, and if I remember correctly about a 10-12 lb ham. Couple pans of sausage cornbread stuffing, and the rest of the fixins.... Looking forward to the chaos and insanity....
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We used to have family gathering like that when I was a kid. Anywhere between 15 and 20 people.
Everyone came to our house because we had a huge house and a huge dining room to handle it. Still not sure how my mother pulled it all off over the years.
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Took my sweet time getting going this morning. Just finished a 19 mile ride, 1600' of climbing, a couple very nice gravel sections including a grueling climb on gravel.
Time to get a shower and go get fat!
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Went to work. Cleaned up dog *expletive deleted*it. Boss was late because she actually overslept for a change, which I thought was funny.
Just chilling now, until 2 when I'll head over to the farm for dinner with the boss's and whoever else shows up. Hopefully I won't be partially deafened this year because I end up sitting next to the boss's sister and the Redskins do something they shouldn't during a football game. I won't really care even if I am deafened. The food will be glorious.
Dad's already gone out to his pick of the yearly invites. He's hitting up his friend Lou and family this year.
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Turkey is in the electric roaster; it's about time to check on it. Pie is in the oven. Broccoli is cut up ready to steam. I need to go find a heat gun to brown the turkey skin, and a can of cranberry sauce...
No stuffing/dressing this year.
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Dinner won't be until 6:30 because DIL had to work. I think we have the new stove dialed in enough to get by. Mostly just my family this year, about 20 people. We're having a get together at mom's retirement home on Saturday. My sister from NY and brother from NM will be there, along with a bunch of cousins who want to see mom. Then we'll probably come out here and give grand tours of the house.
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Served a metric ton of meals at the USO.
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We went to the in-laws. Thankfully, only the ones I like were there this go around.
The heinous part was the detour on the way home. The wife's computer experienced a HDD failure and she insists she has to have it back up and running ASAP.
The only place to score a drive around here tonight was BestBuy.
Wholly Gourd what a freaking flustrcluck.
I told my wife that sending me into that scene rates some gratuitous and slightly pervers sexual favors.
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Went for a walk with the dog this morning. My old buddy 12.5 year old lab kicked up a fat ringneck and I was carrying the 20g Ithaca model 37 featherweight delux that my dad gave me around 1970. 1 shot and old Ryder made a nice retrieve on tomorrow's dinner. The turkey that came out of the charcoal pit barrel was awesome and even went for another walk with my wife. She didn't make any nice retrieves but we had pleasant conversation then we hauled a nice antique dresser home from moms house. Gonna hunt for a couple hours in the am then work at moms to keep plugging towards getting the house ready to sell.
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Oddly, no turkey at the cousins' lunch, but a good sized ham and a huge brisket. Then some desserts that pretty much canceled out the 15 mile round trip ride.
Speed could have been a lot better, but I was in jeans, and it was a nice day to take it easy, so I averaged about 11mph. Had a bit of a load too, mostly because I wanted my jacket and tools, but didn't feel like taking the extra commute stuff out of the panniers, so I stopped by the shop and checked the bike on the digital scale; 55.1 lbs total.
Apparently I wasn't the only one riding off some calories, though.
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My BIL and his family (wife and 3 kids age 4mo to 5yr) showed up as a surprise to my MIL. They live in SC and weren't expected to be there due to BIL's work schedule (holidays are his crunch time). I decided it would be better for me to hang around and play "uncle" rather than hit the woods. Will do that today instead since there are not "Black Friday" deals I need. :)
Chris
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Well, sadly, a Thanksgiving tradition has bit the dust here. Every Thanksgiving, my niece and I would have a Three Stooges (just Curly) marathon. From the time she was old enough to watch TV to the time she died.
It was always a big bonding thing with us and we had started doing it with my grand niece too, because my niece wanted to keep up the tradition. No Three Stooges this year. My grand niece's dad has decided the stooges are too violent. He never liked them, but my niece had always overidden him when they were up here. Now the stooges and me don't have an advocate anymore, and the tradition has ended. Totally bummed out. I'll probably do a marathon by myself tomorrow in honor of my niece.
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Thanksgiving is like 364 days away! Isn't it a bit early to be asking now?
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Well, sadly, a Thanksgiving tradition has bit the dust here. Every Thanksgiving, my niece and I would have a Three Stooges (just Curly) marathon. From the time she was old enough to watch TV to the time she died.
It was always a big bonding thing with us and we had started doing it with my grand niece too, because my niece wanted to keep up the tradition. No Three Stooges this year. My grand niece's dad has decided the stooges are too violent. He never liked them, but my niece had always overidden him when they were up here. Now the stooges and me don't have an advocate anymore, and the tradition has ended. Totally bummed out. I'll probably do a marathon by myself tomorrow in honor of my niece.
Okay, that's just *expletive deleted*ed up. You should tell grand niece's dad to stick it where the sun don't shine. :mad:
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Okay, that's just *expletive deleted*ed up. You should tell grand niece's dad to stick it where the sun don't shine. :mad:
Well, he's actually a good dad - just kind of a coastal CA city slicker, so he picks up on some of that stuff. I think maybe his great worry is that she'll pull some Three Stooges routines in pre-school and get expelled. I'm pretty sure anything the Three Stooges ever did is a social justice felony in this state now.
Still, a sad state of affairs when something made in the 30s-40s, with no cussing or r-rated material, is "worse" for kids to watch than so much of what they are exposed to in modern media.
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Well, you could offer him a parenting choice...
Listen to the collected works of N.W.A at full blast.
Uncensored Bugs Bunny marathon, including the wildly racist WW II propaganda cartoons.
Three Stoodges.
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Uncensored Bugs Bunny marathon, including the wildly racist WW II propaganda cartoons.
Heh. I'd already been slowly working her into the older Tom and Jerry cartoons. My plan is to at some point talk him into letting her come and stay with me for a week during Summer vacation, then thoroughly indoctrinating her in politically incorrect stuff. :laugh: