Jeanie, happy Thanksgiving to you and the rest of the Forum.

We plan on having a good time, DW hav been cooking for days. We expect to have people from Ghana, west Africa, Elsalvadore, Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. We also plan on taking out a few plate to the neighbors that are not able to get out or have no family in the area.

This is my most favorite Holiday.

Larry

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Pray for safe traveling mercies for those traveling. I'm so thankful for everything I've been blessed with. Jay

ANd a Happy Thanksgiving to all from me too. We are having ours tomorrow as work schedules prevented today. Too, youngest son who works out of state couldn't get here till tonight.
Have a few small tomatoes left from the garden, but they were picked so green that even though they turned color, they don't really taste "ripe" so made a cole slaw for tomorrow and added a green onion and some arugula from the garden, and thinnings of radish and beet leaves from the greenhouse. Hope some of the rest of you had something from the garden. Will also cook homegrown sweetpotatoes.

We had tons of food even after snacking and eating most of the day. My daughter and her family left for Utah at 5 AM today, my son and DIL left mid-morning, and my husband went deer hunting. Even after sending turkey, dressing, gravy and pie home with my DIL, I wondered what I would do with all of the food. Part of it became a turkey pot pie, and I made two sweet potato pies out of the left-over sweet potatoes. The cheesecake is down to the last piece, but I still have pecan and mincemeat pie left. No one else likes mincemeat but since I almost never make it, I treated myself to one this year. I may not like them it by the time I finish a whole pie. LOL

I could eat turkey for a week but Al will be very tired of it after the holiday, so I will probably just freeze most of it and spring it on him at some later date. The problem is that my refrigerators still look as full as they did before the holiday.

We had a good time with most of our immediate family (minus son & daughter-in-law, who we will see in a couple of weeks). We also had a retired missionary friend and a friend of hers over. It was good. I shot a deer on Monday. Friday we turned most of it into sausage, which was an experiment for us. The sausage came out real well.

I sold six pasture fed turkeys, just before the holiday. They brought in over $300, which was a big help.

I could eat turkey for a LONG TIME before getting tired of it! We'll see when we finish ours. It will be a while before we get to roast a duck, which we normally do on Thanksgiving. But we were not enough to finish the turkey. A duck would have been overkill.

I still have a ton to do in the garden. It's hard to make time. Firewood calls, etc. Still, we are enjoying turnips from the garden and I got my garlic and multiplier onions planted.

George
Tahlequah, OK

I hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving.

We traveled down to the Stephenville, TX, area for Turkey Day, where our extended family had the largest Thanksgiving gathering we'd had in several years, including 3 new babies born into the family since last Thanksgiving. It was fun and since the weather was so gorgeous, the older children got to run around and play outside all afternoon.

The only downside to having Thanksgiving at someone else's house is that you don't have leftovers. I'm thinking about cooking a turkey and dressing tomorrow because I do like it, and don't mind having turkey leftovers for a few days.

Larry, It is my most favorite holiday too. We had only Texans and Okies at our gathering though, so not nearly as diverse of a group as yours. I remember looking around the living room/dining room at one point and thinking just how grateful I was that we all are still here and were together for the holiday.

I avoided all the Black Friday shopping nonsense too, which is one more thing for which to be grateful!

Dawn