It seems my neighbors and I are filling the air with the delicious scents of cooking for the ThanksLiving Day feast. Earlier I had the doors open and holiday cooking smells were sweeping through the room. Mmmmm…..Most of my preparations are done, all they need is to be reheated and/or placed on the table after the football game tomorrow. Whoo hoo! Go Pack Go!
Since most of my prep was done, including dressing the table, I had considered going over to Victory for church. Pastor sends an e-mail outlining the service coming up, and this week I got two of them. One is for Thanksgiving and the other for Sunday’s service. Justin discouraged me from going tonight though as his father and Janet were planning to attend. Just as well, I can stay put and rest my bones for tomorrow.
The cooking and such went so smoothly today that I also had time to write my CHRISTmas letter for inclusion in my cards this year. Somehow I found myself awake before 6:00 a.m. and because I have my downstairs neighbor, Cassidy, staying with me, did not get busy in the kitchen. That room is right off the kitchen and any noise I would make would resound in her room. A good hostess would not make all sorts of racket in the wee hours of the morning. I thought she was coming in much later as she was meeting some friends last night, but she told me that she was home by 11:15 or so. I never heard her come in at all, how about that!?
I had gotten a package from Amazon a day or two ago, and opened it when Cass was in my room. She might want to watch one of my videos so I was sharing with her. Inside the box was the book I ordered plus a couple videos. And another box…hmmmm. Inside that box were two unusual items, including a fancy cigarette lighter and something for sharpening bullets. I did not order these items and am not sure what they were doing in my purchase. I wrote Amazon a note to let them know, as I would certainly like to find out what happened to my purchase which was lost. Interesting!
Later this afternoon Randy popped by, fully expecting me to be in a frenzy with the meal preparations. He declared my kitchen far too clean to have meal prep going on, but explained I was mostly done and the dishwasher is handling the mess. More than once I have said I like the kitchen to look like nothing happened here, move along. He was also astounded to see the table dressed, for all except the food!
My back held up nicely today even after carrying the extremely heavy basket of wet towels from Jessica’s porch railing. I told Connie I would wash and dry them since they were hanging there since yesterday’s flood and were getting wetter from the rain showers in the morning. Connie gathered them up and put them in my basket, which I then carried to the laundry room. Soaked towels are incredibly heavy! They are now fluffy and dry, ready for the next water adventure!
Randy is making sure we have ‘regular’ cranberry sauce to eat with his turkey and is making sausage cornbread stuffing. Oh, and bringing his own wine since I don’t know what kind Larry is bringing tomorrow. All this talk about food is now making me hungry so I will go scavenge in the kitchen for something to eat. Food food everywhere but not a thing to eat!
