Author Topic: What kind of holiday would it be without some drama... (Read 13573 times)

mtnbkr · « **Reply #25 on:** November 25, 2011, 09:37:12 AM »

Quote from: kgbsquirrel on November 25, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

Probably going to. This really did happen just a week ago, had the ultrasound of it done 2 days ago, waiting on the docs now. I really don't begrudge you all a merry turkey day, just felt like participating in the Drama Thread.

Ahh, gotcha. The diet comment sounded as if you were using diet to avoid the surgery

Chris

K Frame · « **Reply #26 on:** November 25, 2011, 11:35:29 AM »

New stove will be here Sunday.

HeroHog · « **Reply #27 on:** November 25, 2011, 12:42:31 PM »

As usual I injected our bird and smoked it and now I have to smoke 2 more for other family members! That's what I get for doing such a good job!

PS: On that injecting the Turkey? My dad and his friends are the ones who came up with that YEARS ago. I still have his original syringe, a glass and stainless steel veterinary affair with the two big finger loops on the plunger!

HeroHog · « **Reply #28 on:** November 25, 2011, 12:43:50 PM »

PPS: Notice that the breast is DOWN. That is the secret to keeping the breast meat juicy and from drying out!

Jamisjockey · « **Reply #29 on:** November 25, 2011, 04:27:59 PM »

Honey baked ham for the win

First year in VA we had a housefull at Easter. Day before Easter dinner.....fridge died! Had to go to Potomac Mills Sears outlet at 9pm to get a replacement....that was fun....

K Frame · « **Reply #30 on:** November 27, 2011, 03:20:30 PM »

It's 3:18 Sunday.

That stove had damned well better be here today or there is going to be living holy hell to pay.

Just finished priming 20 new deck boards for the porch (pleasant job) which will be installed on the side porch in December to replace decking that is in desperate shape.

Where the flying three-fingered *expletive deleted*ck is the stove I bought Mom?

charby · « **Reply #31 on:** November 27, 2011, 08:21:09 PM »

So did the stove arrive?

K Frame · « **Reply #32 on:** November 27, 2011, 09:09:34 PM »

I don't even want to talk about it I'm so pissed off right now.

wmenorr67 · « **Reply #33 on:** November 27, 2011, 09:11:41 PM »

Quote from: charby on November 27, 2011, 08:21:09 PM

So did the stove arrive?

Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 27, 2011, 09:09:34 PM

I don't even want to talk about it I'm so pissed off right now.

I would take this as either no or something was totally screwed up upon delivery.

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #34 on:** November 27, 2011, 09:13:42 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 27, 2011, 09:09:34 PM

I don't even want to talk about it I'm so pissed off right now.

Translation: Oh hell no!

BryanP · « **Reply #35 on:** November 27, 2011, 09:28:09 PM »

This was my first time hosting Thanksgiving for the family. My parents have always done it, but their health has been declining and I have to say, in addition to being a lot of work, feeding that many people is expensive.

No drama, all went well. But we'll make up for it with more drama at a later date.

Mike, here's hoping you can straighten out whatever problem has arisen with your mom and her new stove or lack thereof.

MillCreek · « **Reply #36 on:** November 27, 2011, 10:29:29 PM »

^^^ We had dinner for 18 people on Thanksgiving. We are only now finishing up the clean up and putting away of things for another year. I just shampooed the carpets in the living room and family room, since we set up tables there as well.

Lee · « **Reply #37 on:** November 27, 2011, 10:46:04 PM »

Fa ra ra ra ra ra...ra ra ra ra.

K Frame · « **Reply #38 on:** November 27, 2011, 11:03:38 PM »

They brought a stove. Had to run to the store in State College, 30 miles away, to pick it up. Was it the right one? Hell no.

The warehouse monkey apparently picked the first stove he came to and never verified make or model.

The delivery guys, at the end of a long day, never bothered to verify the make and model, either.

How a GE coil top is the same as a Whirlpool solid surface is beyond me.

Short of it is, there's no stove in the kitchen right now. The initial sales person who set all this up called and apologized profusely. Not her problem, she was fantastic.

I'm supposed to hear from the store manager tomorrow morning about what they're going to do to make this right.

The delivery guys already spotted me a brand new cord for the hassle, a $25 piece of kit. I was just going to use the old one.

I'm supposed to head home tomorrow, but I want to be here to make sure that what Mom gets is what she's supposed to get.

I didn't spend nearly $600 for this *expletive deleted*.

If I wanted this kind of hassle, I would have bought the thing from Home Depot, not Lowes.

charby · « **Reply #39 on:** November 28, 2011, 04:40:00 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 27, 2011, 11:03:38 PM

Whirlpool solid surface is beyond me.

Is that a glass top range?

Scout26 · « **Reply #40 on:** November 28, 2011, 11:39:20 PM »

So Mike, what you're saying is that you had Propane Turkey Flambe' for Thanksgiving?

Or Spam?

K Frame · « **Reply #41 on:** November 29, 2011, 09:29:48 AM »

"Is that a glass top range?"

Yes.

"So Mike, what you're saying is that you had Propane Turkey Flambe' for Thanksgiving?"

No, we had a roasted turkey done in the GE countertop roaster.

One of these:

Except for not browning the top of the bird, it did a damned fine job.

charby · « **Reply #42 on:** December 14, 2011, 06:28:40 PM »

Quote from: Mike Irwin on November 29, 2011, 09:29:48 AM

"Is that a glass top range?"

Yes.

Does your mom use cast iron?

RoadKingLarry · « **Reply #43 on:** December 14, 2011, 06:47:16 PM »

Quote

Except for not browning the top of the bird, it did a damned fine job.

Do you not own a propane torch?

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #44 on:** December 14, 2011, 08:22:46 PM »

Dang Mike, you were 3 miles from my "new" central pa digs.

zxcvbob · « **Reply #45 on:** December 14, 2011, 08:27:46 PM »

Quote from: RoadKingLarry on December 14, 2011, 06:47:16 PM

Do you not own a propane torch?

Electric heat gun works better. BTDT.

AJ Dual · « **Reply #46 on:** December 14, 2011, 09:48:29 PM »

Quote from: Lee on November 27, 2011, 10:46:04 PM

Fa ra ra ra ra ra...ra ra ra ra.

It's... it's... Smiling at me.

THWACK!

K Frame · « **Reply #47 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:09:45 PM »

"Does your mom use cast iron?"

Yes. And yes, you CAN use cast iron on a glass top range. You just can't slide it around like a big damned metal curling stone.

"Insert Quote
Dang Mike, you were 3 miles from my "new" central pa digs."

No I wasn't. The Lowe's guys went to State College. I never left Lewistown.

"Do you not own a propane torch?"

Harold Tuttle · « **Reply #48 on:** December 14, 2011, 10:25:56 PM »

Well heck, come on up over the 7 mountains next time.

Phantom Warrior · « **Reply #49 on:** December 15, 2011, 11:11:17 PM »

Quote from: scout26 on November 24, 2011, 02:01:31 AM

Golden Corral FTW....

Word. My parents flew in to visit me and I took them to Country Buffet. Easy AND delicious.

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