Pre-holiday preparations
Okay, the apple pies are in the oven; one of them has already gotten a bit of extra brown crust. Our oven is a persnickety thing, it seems. The butternut squash is in the pressure cooker - well, most of it, anyway. My SIL bought two big ones, and they didn't all fit. The sweet potatoes are in the stock pot, merrily cooking away, or so I hope. Tom Turkey is in the fridge after spending some time out on the counter this afternoon. Why? Because he's been in the fridge since Monday, and he's still frozen. I really don't want to deal with trying to pull frozen gizzards, etc. out of an equally frozen bird. He was still cold when he went back inside so I'm not worried. No, really I'm not.
The Niece is making broccoli and cheese casserole. SIL is bringing her pumpkin cheesecake (hopefully made yesterday or today so it's not warm from the oven at work as she'd planned...). Bro is bringing Kung Fu Panda, and his appetite. Actually, SIL (and probably Bro) bought most of the food - SIL and I went shopping for all kinds of stuff on Monday. So we get to cook and host. A good thing considering that SIL has to work. She almost was scheduled for 10 to 8, (meaning she would miss EVERYTHING), but her supervisor remembered that the opener couldn't be there. So she gets to work from early (5ish?) to around 2, I think. I'm hoping to have everything done for 3 or 4 p.m.
No writing today, unless I manage to pop some out once everything is cooked, peeled, etc. But I'm really ahead, I think. We'll see.
Gotta go get the pies! Happy Thanksgiving, y'all!