Thanksgiving

[Jerry-atric]

Gobble gobble, my friends!

What will you be doing for this unconventional Turkey “Day”?

We will be traveling to my father’s home. But here is the catch: It will be an outdoors cookout.

On Thanksgiving Day.

Can you imagine!

 

[Moderator1]

Why is "Day" in quotes in one place and not in the other?

Thanksgiving alone. Me and the dog. Cooking up a 10-pound turkey and making Keto stuffing. Going to see kids/grandkids over the weekend for a brief, outdoor visit. Doing what we're calling Fractured Christmas (should "Christmas" be in quotes?). Whatever gifts we have, we'll exchange then. What we don't have, we'll mail when we do. Kids need to figure out a plan to see their mother over Christmas, so I won't see them again for a while. She's teaching, in school, in a very Red county and they want her to have time to isolate for a while over her Christmas break. So I go first.

Glad I didn't shave. I get to play "Grampy Claus" to the girls since there won't be any store Santas to go visit this year.

 

[Songbird]

My friend, I plan to "watch" what "happens" to turkey skin when it "bakes" for several "hours"!

 

[tea and ease]

Gobble gobble, my friends!

What will you be doing for this unconventional Turkey “Day”?

We will be traveling to my father’s home. But here is the catch: It will be an outdoors cookout.

On Thanksgiving Day.

Can you imagine!

I will be talking without any contractions, my friend, and hoping for a day where no one uses finger quotes to impart an idea. It will be a hoot.

 

[spikechiquet]

Doing the brine from ICAG's Facebook post this past week tomorrow then smoking the MFer starting Thursday morning. Just the wife and Spike Jr. this year so we opted for a pretty small bird so we aren't swimming in leftovers past Monday or so. LOL
We just signed up and got a box of veggies from Misfits Market (food that is too ugly for grocery stores, but still perfectly fine to eat) and will be supplementing it with sides like roasted golden beets and celery root, mashed turnips along with the standard hits.

 

[John]

Our family is doing an outdoor gathering at my brother's house. Each family group has its own table. Everyone brings their own food and drink. Sadly, the weather may not allow it to happen.

 

[Vombatus]

That’s a “hoot”!

 

[Michael_ Gee]

Just me and Alice, but we'll have video chats with our kids as we cook in our kitchen as they cook in theirs.

 

[The Big Ragu]

I was trying to remember if I have ever not spent thanksgiving with my sisters and their families. There may have been one or two in my late 20s, but I don't remember. We're just going to chill, cook a little, eat a little, go for a long walk, and do a video chat with the family we're not going to be with. What else is there to do?

 

[Cosmo]

My years in sports writing prepared me for Thanksgivings like this. I rarely spent it with family because I always had to either work that day or the night after covering prep football playoffs. So I'll probably have beers, order pizza and watch football. In other words, it'll be a Sunday. That's fine. It's honestly the holiday I give the fewest ****s about.

 

[MileHigh]

Thanksgiving has become the hardest since we lost my sister and her family. Thanksgivings were almost always spent with other Colorado family (and sometimes California family) in Fort Collins. This is the fourth one without them.

Planning to go to my other sister's in Boulder and see the nephew and nieces. It will be nice, but not the same.

 

[exmediahack]

Thursday and Friday with the kids - one back from college. Saturday on the Laz-E-Boy.

 

[Amy]

It was a lousy plan even before recent events. I will be driving to Perry, GA tomorrow to pick Opie up in the afternoon, start driving home and finish the drive Thanksgiving morning.

I had hoped this was the year he would be on TV Thanksgiving Day in the National Dog Show, but for the second year in row, he was a runner-up in best of breed. I’m not a big enough person to watch the dog that beat him compete in the hound group so I won’t be rushing to get home for the broadcast.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

 

[Webster]

We just moved our outdoor Thursday lunch to Friday because of weather. For the first time we decided to cater because our crowd is so small (9 instead of the usual 20-24) and I’m coming off of shoulder surgery and of limited utility

 

[heyabbott]

 

[qtlaw]

Instead of turkey, making prime rib because just 3 of us at home. I'm very sad because I LOOOOOOVE turkey and gravy, and mostly because I've always spent Thanksgiving with my sister, mother, dad and cousins and their families. Usually something around 24 people, crowded in my mom's house, eating lunch, hanging out, watching football, going to the zoo, then the big dinner. We are all making our own meat and then doing a side dish exchange. First one in my 50+ yrs without a Thanksgiving dinner. But safety is more important.

Stay safe everyone!

 

[WriteThinking]

Instead of turkey, making prime rib because just 3 of us at home. I'm very sad because I LOOOOOOVE turkey and gravy, and mostly because I've always spent Thanksgiving with my sister, mother, dad and cousins and their families. Usually something around 24 people, crowded in my mom's house, eating lunch, hanging out, watching football, going to the zoo, then the big dinner. We are all making our own meat and then doing a side dish exchange. First one in my 50+ yrs without a Thanksgiving dinner. But safety is more important.

Stay safe everyone!

I'm going to admit that we're doing exactly what you usually do (minus going to the zoo!), and what most would say we shouldn't, because two of my brothers will be moving very far away -- as in out of the country -- within the next couple of months, one of the grandchildren is here this week from across the country, and my mom is getting on in years, and frankly, all she wants anymore is just to see the kids and grandchildren. Thanksgiving and Christmas are always big deals for our family.

So, we'll be getting together at my mom's house -- 20 of us, down a few from the crowd that usually comes -- but we'll be doing what we can to spread out. We've got a plan for some to eat in the dining room and some to eat in the adjacent living room (so that, hopefully, nobody feels too separated). And if the weather's nice, some of us may eat outside in the backyard.

It's what everyone has decided they want to do -- my mom called everybody a couple days ago to double-check before doing any Thanksgiving shopping. So, yes, we're taking our chances, and we're going to hope for the best.

 

[heyabbott]

 

[DanielSimpsonDay]

- Wife, kids, dog, MiL, FiL
- MiL making her pork stuffing. I would kill any of you just to have it as a last meal.
- Making a dozen pies, three for the house, the rest for distribution on friends' front stoops
- Brining the turkey, which will be fried. Outside. Alone.
- Long Trail Double Bag to drink and a Room 101 Farce to smoke to get through the frying and viewing the putrescent fruit of the Belichick coaching tree.
- Primetime football game, online shopping, and whiskey from cleanup until I give up