A harvest festival-ish holiday celebrating thankfulness and gratitude? What could go wrong?
This year we’re very thankful to celebrate the second anniversary of Kelly’s miraculous recovery from an aortic dissection. But, for the first time in memory, both Kelly and I did nothing on Thanksgiving. We had colds and spent the day at home watching movies. We ate pasta for dinner.
Between coughs and sniffles, I had a few idle thoughts on ways the holiday could be improved:
- Ditch the turkey. Ask around and you’ll find out it’s probably not most people’s favorite food. Why not serve something else?
- If you are going to serve turkey butcher it first and then roast it. Roasting it whole leads to dry meat.
- While we’re at it how about ditching the traditional side dishes? They have the taste and texture of baby food.
- What would happen if we gave the women in our lives a day off and had the men folk do all the work? Women seem to get the brunt of the holiday domestic duties.
- I suspect I’m preaching to the choir to suggest skipping the consumption nightmare that is “black Friday.”
Consider this an open thread on the holiday. What did you do? Did a political debate break out at the table? Who did all the work? Have our international readers even heard of Thanksgiving? Note that our Canadian readers have had an extra month to debrief on the holiday. Comment!
Having no pictures of Pilgrims, please excuse my use of this terrible magazine cover depicting Puritans. I can’t tell the difference. Plus the central figure has the haggard look of someone who just spent the whole day making way too much mediocre food while the rest of her family kicked back and watched a bowl game.
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But I also found them handy for assembling a new fence over the weekend. I wanted 1/4 inch gaps between the fence slats and used a shaft key as a spacer when I assembled the fence.