...why, with all the total insanity going on in the world, I've spent time posting innocuous things here--like finishing the purple socks, starting roof repair, refurbishing a living room--does it mean I don't care? (the common attack when someone isn't talking about whatever your favorite problem is) or I'm too stupid to realize what's happening ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving is the one big feast I do...yes, there are other parties, but they're all more casual.   For Thanksgiving, I pull out all the stops in terms of table decorations and food.  (At my level, that is.  Others do much more.)   Ordinarily, the prep starts back in October and carries on in an orderly fashion.  This year, however, the discovery ( Read more... )

It is a beauteous evening, calm and free...cloudless sky, light breeze has died.  It was lovely all day.  But...it's Thanksgiving Eve and I have wonderful friends coming tomorrow, so my day was not spent lounging about the yard enjoying the cool, crisp air and sunshine.   Instead, it was spent inside, frantically trying to cram two days' work into ( Read more... )

Yesterday was cloudy and windy, all but one hour when the wind died.  That was between the warm-to-hot wind that blew from the SW until sometime around 11 (I was busy, OK?)  so we were all a bit too warm, running around in short-sleeved T-shirts & jeans, doing the prep work for the dinner.   Making dressing, putting turkeys to bed in the roasters, ( Read more... )

Best wishes for a happy one to all who observe Thanksgiving.

We're having our usual interesting mix of guests--those who've been with us for...approaching 40 years now, and those who are new this year, and those in between, in terms of longevity.   The present count is fifteen and I'm hoping the weather allows the four who are nobly making a long ( Read more... )