On the Brink of ... Thanksgiving

[dawn_felagund]

Bobby and I are hosting our first ever Thanksgiving feast this year. I suppose that it is a rite of passage for every young couple, to be sitting around with the family while everyone is hemming and hawing over who will take what holiday this year, arriving at Thanksgiving, and intrepidly piping up, "Why don't you guys take a year off and we'll do

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[tarion_anarore]

You mean Lancelot doesn't make up for the lack of feather by bringing leaves inside by mouth?? ;)

I should've bathed my dogs while it was warm out, but I didn't, and now it's cold. Meh, for Christmas then.

Ironically, I was just lamenting that my family never has a large Thanksgiving (either at our house or someone else's). We're friendless. And my extended family is too weird (and lives far away). Maybe I'll show up to your place one year. ;)

Hopefully your pie plate turns up. Sparkly clean.

I'm on for cooking tomorrow (or today, technically). O.o I'm thinkin' the Elves better help!

Happy Thanksgiving!

[pandemonium_213]

Tarion! Totally off topic, but my son and I watched "Jesus Christ, Vampire Hunter" the other evening. It was hilarious! Thanks for calling it to my attention. I'll probably review it on the Refuge as part of the continuing "Doc Bushwell's Mystery Science Theatre 3000" series.

Happy Thanksgiving and good luck with the cooking.

"It's all good! It's all right! Everybody get..." :^D

[tarion_anarore]

Excellent!! I'll watch for the MST review.

"It's all good! It's all right! Everybody get..."

*snerk*

Happy Thanksgiving!

[dawn_felagund]

You're welcome at the House of Felagund whenever you would like! We had a little ... erm ... extra this year, so we could have easily accommodated an extra. Or eight. ;)

(You and seven sons of Feanor!)

Lancelot has not figured out carrying leaves in his mouth yet. Though he did sneak a stick past his daddy yesterday.

The pie plate turned out ... not well. Not sure if I'm up to a post about it or not. Suffice to say that I'm pissed off.

[dawn_felagund]

Always good advice ... ;)

And we did ... have fun that is! (And so far, Alex has stayed out of the poop too, knock wood.)

[evils_hero]

Happy Thanksgiving! Have a great day :)

[dawn_felagund]

We did, thank you! *hugs*

[heartofoshun]

Have a great day, Dawn. I'm off to Laura's momentarily, she and I are cooking together. (I so sympathize with the loss of your pie and, especially the plate. I cannot tell you how many beloved pieces of cookware I have lost in the a similar manner of the years! Grrrr!)

[dawn_felagund]

I hope that you and Laura and wee Findekano had a lovely day. :)

The Saga of the Pie Plate did not turn out well. I'm trying to decide if I possess the strength to angst about it on LJ ... and answer the slew of sympathetic comments that will follow. (Part of me feels bad about angsting over a pie plate--albeit a very nice one--when the world has much worse problems going on and making Teh Flist feel that they must comment.) If I don't post about it, suffice to say that this was my first--and last--potluck party at work. I'll be forgoing participation henceforth.

[heartofoshun]

In long years of working in offices, I have noticed that in subtle, petty ways people tend to lose their morals in that environment. In more than one law firm where I worked, the secretaries complained about food they stored in the kitchens to last them for lunches throughout a week (dated and labeled clearly) disappeared overnight. Invariably, when anyone did an investigation to find out who was stealing, they would first suspect the cleaning staff (poor and paid minimum wage) and it always turned out to be the highly paid attorneys who had taken the food, rather than simply pick up the phone and order take out/delivery when they stayed late.

[pandemonium_213]

Congrats on your first big "we're hosting Thanksgiving" fête! These certainly can be labors of love, and your efforts certainly reflect that. My SILs in Wisconsin take turns hosting T-day festivities, and these are fantastic. I always helped them out and was up to my elbows in preparation. Now that we're out here, it's just the four of us.

When doing the potluck thing, I neurotically hover over anything remotely of value that I bring to the table due to a past bad experience in which a fine steel mixing bowl, filled with potato salad, disappeared from a big picnic in a park in Madison. I usually try to bring food in dishes that I don't care about if the event takes place among people I don't know well, i.e., those I can't hound with phone calls or e-mails to retrieve a pie plate, bowl or casserole dish.

Re: the happily beshatted Alex - *snort*! What a dog!

Tomorrow's frozen treats are the traditional pumpkin ice cream pie and a German chocolate ice cream pie that I've never made before.[Homer Simpson drooling noise]Mmmmmmmm...

[dawn_felagund]

I hope that your fearsome foursome had a lovely holiday