My Turkey looks suspiciously like a giant ribeye roast I acquired, some sort of random root veggies (I think turnips parsnips and carrots) some other sort of vegetable, maybe potatoes, panettone bread pudding with apples and raisins, ice cream, cranberry rum punch, and probably doing much like Rico and making sure my xbox doesnt run off. Maybe prepping for my 2018 box of grm.
20+ people over. All family.
My wife turns into a mean Martha Stewart and the kids and I hide. This year she decided NOT to eat on the fine China and go disposable plates.
No alcohol is allowed in my house - maybe that’s the issue?
I'm working a 24 hour shift from 8 am Thursday to 8 am Friday. Sixth year in a row that I've been scheduled to work Thanksgiving. Not happy about it.
Datsun310Guy said:20+ people over. All family.
I can't say I miss that stuff. We have no family here in Atlanta, so it's just us. However, before we moved we used to go to my wife's family for Thanksgiving. It was her fathers' 20+ yyear "girlfriend"s house. Well, she had 5 grown kids of her own, who were mostly married with kids. She lived in a tiny cape cod style house, I bet it wasn't 1200sq ft total. So there would be 30+ people packed into that place. It was utter insanity.
Driving up to my fathers place with the kids, eat, drink, be merry and then head home.
Woody said:I'm working a 24 hour shift from 8 am Thursday to 8 am Friday. Sixth year in a row that I've been scheduled to work Thanksgiving. Not happy about it.
Same here......and I got mandated to work 24 hours on C shift too. 48 straight and my wife will be home all by herself both days. Retirement can't come soon enough.
Woody said:I'm working a 24 hour shift from 8 am Thursday to 8 am Friday. Sixth year in a row that I've been scheduled to work Thanksgiving. Not happy about it.
How many turkey fires do you expect to have to extinguish?
Chuck will be working, so I plan to spend a good portion of the day robbing and killing in Red Dead Redemption 2.
I’m gonna hold my grandbaby.
In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
Not a joke. It's the busiest day of the year, followed closely by the day before Thanksgiving, when everybody cleans their oven for the first time since the previous year.
Oven fires will begin around 10:30 am. Turkey fryer accidents and 911 calls from panicked neighbors who think that the garage next door is on fire but it's really fryer smoke will begin around noon.
Heart attacks start rolling in around 3:00.
Porch fires from visiting relatives smoking outside usually happen around 7 pm.
Thanksgiving is a very predictable day around the firehouse, although one year I did get to deliver a baby right after dinner. That was unexpected.
Since we have 3 international labs that don't shut down for thanksgiving (US), I volunteered for a couple hours of double time tomorrow morning. Then headed to my folks to eat and veg then coming home.
Woody said:In reply to mazdeuce - Seth :
Not a joke. It's the busiest day of the year, followed closely by the day before Thanksgiving, when everybody cleans their oven for the first time since the previous year.
Oven fires will begin around 10:30 am. Turkey fryer accidents and 911 calls from panicked neighbors who think that the garage next door is on fire but it's really fryer smoke will begin around noon.
Heart attacks start rolling in around 3:00.
Porch fires from visiting relatives smoking outside usually happen around 7 pm.
Thanksgiving is a very predictable day around the firehouse, although one year I did get to deliver a baby right after dinner. That was unexpected.
My son's a paramedic, they are extremely busy on Thanksgiving too. Any holiday really, people go crazy.
You know the percentage of shortness of breath complaints that clog up an er on thanksgiving and Christmas because of lazy slack ass children? All of them!
That grinds my gears to no end. Come in to grandmas house as she makes a feast for 30 “relatives” that show up maybe twice a year... Of course I’m going to be sob and weak and I’m half their age.
Cousin_Eddie said:Woody said:I'm working a 24 hour shift from 8 am Thursday to 8 am Friday. Sixth year in a row that I've been scheduled to work Thanksgiving. Not happy about it.
Same here......and I got mandated to work 24 hours on C shift too. 48 straight and my wife will be home all by herself both days. Retirement can't come soon enough.
I’m off for the first time in years thanks to a broken shoulder. I’m not suggesting trying it but it’s not the worst injury I’ve had. I may be off Christmas too.
I’m camped out at the mother in law’s with Mrs Crash. We’re going to get up to watch the parade, then watch movies until everyone shows up for dinner. I’m glad to be out of the cold but I kinda wish I was back to work, it’s one of our quieter days and I can usually get to see some of the parade stepping off.
The In-laws are coming over. Do you know the difference between In-laws and out-laws? Out-laws are wanted.
BlindPirate said:The In-laws are coming over. Do you know the difference between In-laws and out-laws? Out-laws are wanted.
In 7 years of marriage, my in laws were in my home precisely twice. That's still too many.
Family dinner is at my house from what I understand so I have a good excuse to try hiding in the garage. Maybe something will get done while I'm out there, I have doubts though.
In reply to z31maniac :
Trying to figure out where 34 members of the family can park their cars. The driveway will already be 1/2 filled with boats and our cars.
If weather co-operates I'll likely install a bollard at a vigilante landscaping project I'm working on. I'd love to be a fly on the wall when some day the heads of various public departments realize none of their departments installed it. After that I expect free food I can't identify (and that's probably a good thing) from various immigrant neighbors I'm constantly helping.
I'm cooking the meal for me family of four and my parents. I do most of the cooking in my house but haven't done a Thanksgiving meal since 1995. Coleslaw and cranberries done tonight. Tomorrow is the hot stuff including a fresh turkey that I'm cooking using the spatchcock method. Hope it works though it sounds like a porno directors term. I coated the turkey in a mix of sea salt and brown sugar early this morning. Picked up the pies and fresh veggies today along with the drinks-apple cider and cranberry juice for the boys, Pinot Noir for my wife, Chardonnay for Mom, and beer for me and Dad. Tomorrow morning is cinnamon rolls, bacon, and eggs breakfast then a long-running neighborhood get together down the street.
Angry-Kapusta in my Slovak family is sauerkraut soup with mushrooms and caraway seeds. My Slovak grandmother used to make it for the family Christmas dinners. Miss her, the big extended family Christmas (20+ people in her basement!) and the soup. My Dad will be with you in spirit at the Lion's game tomorrow. He and my son will watch it. The rest of us won't as we don't care.
My mother is in San Diego with her boyfriend, where we had planned to be as well. *Sighs*
We decided to skip my sister's house her 5 kids, my brothers 2, and all of my sister's, husband's family and relax.
Sorry for those of you that have to work.
In reply to wawazat :
We are Lions fans exactly one day per year. We used to go to the Thanksgiving Day parade but decided in 2015 to start a new tradition. E36 M3, between tickets and parking and stadium food and the trip to the mall for swag, it’s an expensive tradition.
In reply to wawazat :
My mom was Slovak - I miss her sauerkraut and rock solid dumplings and all her home cooking
They sell little cans of sauerkraut juice I’d buy her - that I don’t miss nor her purple cabbage kraut.
Cousin_Eddie said:Woody said:I'm working a 24 hour shift from 8 am Thursday to 8 am Friday. Sixth year in a row that I've been scheduled to work Thanksgiving. Not happy about it.
Same here......and I got mandated to work 24 hours on C shift too. 48 straight and my wife will be home all by herself both days. Retirement can't come soon enough.
Same here, but my opposite crew pointed out that next year they start a seven year stretch of Thanksgiving shifts. I haven't verified the calendar, but take his word for it. The company bought us a turkey, ham, and fixin's for tomorrow if were around the base long enough to eat it.
We and my sister's much more extensive household are all visiting our folks a couple hours away. I'm on dessert two of three as we speak. Mostly. Mince pies are 3/4 done; I need to do another partial batch. Milk Street recipe almond cake has a few more minutes in the oven, and peach/blackberry pie will be baked in the morning before we head out.
A day of hanging about with my folks and eating a bunch, and an extra day or two of visiting with a fair chance of catching up with JKB a bit. Good stuff.
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