HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
For the past two years we haven't really celebrated Thanksgiving in the traditional way with turkey and dressing and all that good stuff. Last year we ate fish; more like the pilgrims really did, or so I hear.
This year we decided to go for it. I bought a frozen chester, which, as near as Alan can tell from his search on the Internet, is just a big chicken with a a lot of breast meat. Hence, the name Chester. I bought a deboned one because it was half the price of the other ones and I figured I wasn't paying for bones either, so it would be a really good deal. We'll see how that goes. I'm crossing my fingers. Right now it looks kind of like a deflated turkey costume that someone left in a pile on the floor.
This one is for me. I always love a good belly-button joke.
This one is for all the Idaho relatives who are freezing their tails off right now.
We actually have imported items to try to make this at least resemble a Thanksgiving dinner. The only problem is that I had the kids send stuff we had in our storage room at home. From the date we had written on top of the can, it looks like we bought the pumpkin in 2006. It has an expiration date of April 2009, and it's not bulging or anything. I'm not too nervous about it. I may let Alan and/or the missionaries go first on the canned yams though. It looks like we bought those in 1999. Canned yams aren't my favorite anyway. ( I also can't figure out how I missed donating those for the Scouting for Food drive all those years.)
This one is for Alan. He's out on the treadmill as I type. He is way excited for the pie tomorrow.
Wish us luck!
7 comments:
I hope that Uncle Alan's pie is worth it! I loved all your comics! Happy Thanksgiving to You.
Good luck with Chester.
Hey, I thought when we had Christmas dinner down there that we had turkey...or was that a chester too? Can you not buy turkeys there anymore or were you just feeling like a giant hormone pumped chicken?
Oh,and interesting choice for that first Thanksgiving picture. It looks like something some might have tole painted for Mini Bazaar in 1985...no offense to Mini Bazaar or to 1985.
Happy Thanksgiving to you guys, too!
Hope your turkey or chester was all you hoped it would be. Hey, I was also pretty good at using food color in jergens lotion for our tanning lotion!
Bobbi, Uncle Alan savored every bite of the pie and he's back on the treadmill today.
Becca, We did have a turkey for Christmas. I just didn't see any at Pao de Acucar yet. That's why I went with the Chester. It was pretty good, just shot up with a little too much of that salt solution for my taste. Hey, and I thought those simple little Pilgrim drawings were cute. Long live tole painting, Mini Bazaar, and the 80's.
Lucy, sorry I forgot to mention your mad mixing skills for our "tanning lotion." It really was genius even if the color came off on our anklets that were folded down low over the top of our white tennies? That was just before penny loafers with no socks were the rage. That was a loooong time ago.
Isn't it funny how much we need the familiar things for it to really feel like a holiday? Our Thanksgiving was with Aaron's family this year and it just didn't feel like Thanksgiving without Grandma Batt, familiar foods and the whole family. I hope yours felt a little like Thanksgiving this year.
Fun post, Millie! Glad you commented on how it all went. I didn't want to be left hangin'
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