What are you doing for Thanksgiving

Linda

Linda

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Central California foothills
Are you looking forward to Thanksgiving? Do you have plans? Besides missing all the TGs of the past with both my original family and the one my husband and I made, I don't mind Thanksgiving like I do the other holidays.

Last year was special as our 7 year old Swedish grand-daughter came over and spent a week with us in LA so she could experience a real Thanksgiving. :) This year a 28 yr old niece, who is trying to get to know family, asked if she could spend it with us so we jumped on that. We only met her this summer and we just love her to death. One of our X-daughter-in-laws usually spends the day with us and that will probably be it. My brother likes to deep pit turkeys and roasts in a big deep pit we have outside. He delivers some of them to his kids in the valley but always comes back up here to eat dinner. Our oldest son who recently passed always spent TG with a local friend (actually, he was at that friend's house when he died) since they both liked to watch football. My husband and 2 of our son's don't watch any spectator sports. Our second oldest lives in Europe and won't be here. We have an open invitation to spend TG with our daughter as she and her hubby both have custody issues so they stay in the big city for TG. Our youngest son just married into a large Filipino family and they all get together for holidays and every time someone has a BD or a big moment in their life. If we wanted to we could tag along but I'd rather stay home during the fog season and let people come to me. :)
 

My roommate is going to a church dinner, so I'll be on my own.

GLORY! :devilish:

Actually I'll probably just sit here like Eeyore and say "It doesn't matter anyway ..."
 

Last year, I was invited to spend it with a friend and her family, this year the friend will be going up north, and other friends are also heading north to NJ and NY that is. So it will be movies and hopefully some really good reading materials. :)
 
We usually try to have a good movie to watch on Thanksgiving. Last week my husband ordered a Turkey dinner off the senior menu at IHOP and he said it was great. It looked good to me and it was under $10. I told him if we weren't having people over I'd go to IHOP for Thanksgiving.
 
Shalimar said:
Philly, April, Although the Canadianim celebrate Thanksgiving in October, I am sending a huge virtual helping of my virtual T. Dinner to each of you. Enjoy!
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Thank you. I expect it will be a nice day. As long as I don't step out into the street, this place turns into a ghost town Turkey day day and Christmas.
 
Awwww Phil I wish we could invite you. We're going out with my Dad, son 1 and son 2, daughter in law and daughter, n' best of all the new Grandboy! Who cares about the food, I just want to hug that baby to pieces:):):)
 
We've done our TGiving, but can do it again -- tofu mock turkey, lentil dressing, mushroom gravy, veggies galore, pies and tarts and ice cream! Can't ever be too thankful!
 
I am having 5 for turkey dinner

My son and daughter in law, my older grandson and his wife and my younger grandson.

Turkey
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Bread stuffing w/ onion, sage, celery & rosemary
Buttered green peas
Creamed onions
Mashed rutabega
Corn casserole
Cranberry sauce
North Carolina lemon pie
Apple pie

Beer, wines, apple cider, coffee
Pot in the upstairs bathroom, turn on the fan.
 
RadishRose said:
I am having 5 for turkey dinner.

My son and daughter in law, my older grandson and his wife and my younger grandson.
Turkey and gravy
Mashed potatoes and gravy
Bread w/ onion, sage, celery & rosemary stuffing
Buttered green peas
Creamed onions
Mashed rutabega
Corn casserole
Cranberry sauce
North Carolina lemon pie
Apple pie

Beer, wines, apple cider, coffee
Pot in the upstairs bathroom, turn on the fan.
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I'm going to RadishRose's house for TG and I'm not saying why. :)
 
When I was a kid, the tradition was for either my Mother to prepare dinner, and my sister and her kids & husband came over, or, the other way around. When the festivities took place at my sister's house, it involved many other folks: her husband had 2 sisters with families. Those get-togethers invariably involved heavy drinking, poker-playing, loud, boisterous activity which my folks retired from early, taking me with them.

My Mother favored roasting a big Goose for these occasions, big ham also, for the non-farmers. (!). Several years, my sister's in-laws came too. Her father in law, a notorious
imbiber of whiskey, snuck out several times before, and after, eating, to their car, where my younger nephew, Mike, who related this to me years later, watched from in-hiding as the extra bottle was extricated from beneath the seat. Later, a commotion could be heard in the middle bedroom, where one of Mike's little sisters was bouncing up and down on Grandpa Willy's belly, he being blissfully unaware.

The days gone forever. This year, inexplicably, we received free offers of both Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner feasts at the Edgewater Hotel, these each including b3 free nights stay. My wife asked, should we? I figgered, Why Not? imp
 
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