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  4. 4.

    Phylllis

    Happy Thanksgiving to my favorite corner of the intertubez. Hope everyone stays safe and healthy.

  6. 6.

    OzarkHillbilly

    A 32 tweet thread about a survivor of heroic proportions:

    Slava Malamud
    @SlavaMalamud
    Another personal thread. Previously, I have told the story of my grandfathers, both genuine, extremely badass WWII heroes, whose stories I have only recently uncovered in the Russian Defense Ministry archives. This time, I will talk about my grandma. Who was even more heroic.

    Slava Malamud
    @SlavaMalamud

    Yelizaveta Pokhis was born in the Russian Empire in 1915, in a tiny Ukrainian village of no historical import and negligible population, to a family of a Jewish farmer, 5th out of 7 children. Her grandpa poked his own eye out to avoid a 25-year conscription into the Czar’s army.

  10. 10.

    satby

    Good morning and Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. I’m excited to NOT have to go anywhere, though I miss seeing my kids. But haven’t done the big Thanksgiving holiday get togethers for years anyway, so not much is different about today.

  11. 11.

    sab

    I normally hate Thanksgiving. Too many loud relatives in a confined space. Our cats agree. So I have always volunteered to cook, and hide in the kitchen. Should be peaceful today, but my husband will be lonely. Yay cats.

  13. 13.

    Baud

    Happy Thanksgiving.

    Obviously, we are all in a much more thankful place politically than we were four years ago.  Thankful for everyone who showed up to do what needed to be done.

  15. 15.

    sab

    @mali muso: One Thanksgiving we sat with my sister and her husband at the kids table in the hall. My husband mentionned going into the Coast Guard at 18 during Vietnam war, first Thanksgiving away from home. My brother in law then mentionned going into the country  to the other end of China during the Cultural Revolution at age 14.

  19. 19.

    Immanentize

    Good morning Turkey Day Jackals.
    I’m still drying the ducks for tonight’s dinner. But I want to eat now! Ah well. “Patience is a virtue, but I don’t have the time”

  22. 22.

    JPL

    @Baud: There’s always something to be thankful for, and this year more so.   My new year starts when trump is dragged from the White House though.

  24. 24.

    HRA

    Good morning! Happy Thanksgiving to all! The realization of how many years have passed since I have made a Thanksgiving dinner just occurred to me as I sat here drinking my coffee. Grateful to have a husband who does and will be helping me get it done.

    Most grateful our youngest daughter who has been positive for Covid has no dire symptoms of it and hope it will stay that way.

  25. 25.

    JMG

    Happy Thanksgiving to all on this board! Special thanks to our front page posters and the site’s founder. May you all stay safe and eat just enough to say “oh, wow, I have eaten too much.”

  26. 26.

    sab

    @Baud: I see a lot of flappy, ineffective masks on TV news interviews lately. Stresses me out. Any old piece of cloth on your face probably isn’t quite enough.

    Also too, why does my husband, who sprays the whole car with rubbing alcohol every time he goes out, then dump his mask on any old random surface when he gets home? The mask has germs! That was the point of wearing it! Dump it directly in the laundry!

  29. 29.

    NotMax

    FYI, Hulu offering its streaming with ads service tier on a special of $1.99 per month for a full year from now through 3 a.m. Eastern time Tuesday. New and returning (those who canceled 3 or more months ago) customers only. Not applicable to any who signed up for the same deal last year.

    Have never used Hulu myself so cannot speak to how intrusive or how densely packed the ads there are.

  30. 30.

    germy

    @sab:

    I noticed John Kerry did that during his last speech.  Came out onstage wearing his mask, and then removed it and placed it gently on the podium, where all the other nominees had spoken.

    I heard myself mutter “Put the damn mask in your jacket pocket.”

  31. 31.

    lowtechcyclist

    @debbie: 

    Plenty of credit cards besides AmEx. Many places, Comcast doesn’t have real competition. Where I am, it’s either Comcast, or Verizon’s incredibly thin non-Fios pipe. They’ve got us over a barrel. Fuck monopolies.

  33. 33.

    sab

    @Immanentize: My stepdaughter texted for pumpkin pie last night, so we sent it next door right out of the oven. Today only four projects: turkey, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes and apple pies. Everything else done yesterday, although just us, and her kids next door.

    Also coffee for klatch this a.m.

  34. 34.

    lowtechcyclist

    For the first time ever, at least for my 13 year old son, Thanksgiving is just the three of us.  Kinda sucks, but we’ll manage.

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @lowtechcyclist

    Comcast owns NBC, which recently launched its own streaming service, Peacock, and is now going to slap a cap on monthly internet usage for Comcast customers, with hefty surcharges for exceeding it.

    It’s an MBA’s wet dream.

  39. 39.

    Immanentize

    @sab: I still have to make a pie — and spicy green beans.  But most of the work is done.  Except the cooking of the boyds.

  41. 41.

    NotMax

    Still to do:

    Season and cook the roast (Instant Pot)
    Cook yams (in microwave) and put together that casserole
    Sauté mushrooms
    Remember to remember there’s a bag of microwaveable asparagus in the freezer
    .

  43. 43.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    “My grandma’s oldest half-sister/cousin was raped and murdered by the White Army in 1918 during a routine Civil War pogrom…”

    Routine?  What a read, thanks for sharing.

  49. 49.

    sab

    @Immanentize: 12 lb turkey to split between two of us here and step-daughter and two kids next door. Send them slices, or chop the bird carcass in half and send that next door? She doesn’t make soup, so probably just slices.

    She really should learn to make soup.

  50. 50.

    germy

    This Associated Press headline is so… poetic:

    Biden seeks unity as Trump stokes fading embers of campaign

  53. 53.

    Skepticat

    I’d like to second Bill of Portland, Maine, who in his Cheers and Jeers on Daily Kos this morning noted that one of the people for whom he’s grateful is John Cole. As are we.

  54. 54.

    mali muso

    @sab: Converting leftover turkey/chicken into soup is next level adulting. :)  That said, I am planning to use some of the homemade chicken broth from last week’s rotisserie chicken to season today’s turkey breast…and then convert that turkey carcass into next week’s broth.

  57. 57.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    @Skepticat:

    I’m “grog” over at C&J.  It was nice of Billeh to note the esteemed Mr Cole.  I disagree with him on some of the others, notably Atrios, but I wouldn’t be a Dem if I didn’t want to shoot other Dems from time to time.

  59. 59.

    debbie

    @lowtechcyclist:

    I wasn’t equating them; I was pointing out how at the time of national crisis, these assholes are screwing their customers to the wall and beyond. Monopoly or no, why risk losing even a single customer at this time?

  61. 61.

    sab

    @mali muso:  We live on soup all winter. Plus bread with the soup. Thanksgiving turkey leftovers kicks off our winter soup season. I like with wild rice, so that is Thanksgiving leftovers. Christmas we go turkey noodle or something Cajun.

  63. 63.

    germy

    @Nelle:  They clearly wiped the podium down between speakers.

    Yes, and I was impressed by that.  Competence and thoughtfulness  from  this new administration.

  64. 64.

    Nelle

    Thank you all.  I’m not the most regular here, but know that I value this community, even if not in the inner circle.

  65. 65.

    JMG

    Alice makes wonderful turkey soup and we always have a supply of her homemade chicken stock on hand in the freezer. It’s as essential a winter cooking ingredient as salt and pepper.

  68. 68.

    mali muso

    @sab: I love soup and would be happy to exist on it all winter.  Sadly my husband and four-year old daughter are less enamored.  I still make up batches of chicken/turkey veggie soup and freeze them in individual serving sizes so that I have quick options for my own lunches though. :)

    For those looking for some more ideas on what to do with leftover turkey, here is a plan for converting the leftovers into 9 future meals.  YMMV.

  69. 69.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @sab: Mom developed a simpler (& IMHO tastier) method of getting the absolute maximum out of a turkey carcass – creamed turkey.

    I’m reciting this mostly from watching her make this when I was a kid, so take the following as a general statement of principles more than an exacting recipe:

    Remove large remnants of meat from the carcass but leave smaller fragments on the bones.

    Break up carcass and stuff into a pressure cooker, add water, cook for ~10 minutes at pressure. (Or stuff into slow cooker & cook on high for ~3 hrs or low for ~10 hrs. The idea is to make the residual meat fragments easy to pick off the bones.)

    Remove bones from pot. Strip the remaining meat from bones & return meat to pot; discard bones.

    Add flour and a bag of frozen mixed vegetables to pot, return to boil, then simmer until vegetables are cooked & liquid has thickened to the consistency of gravy.

    Ladle over toast points to serve.

    As kids we looked forward to this more than the turkey itself!

  70. 70.

    MazeDancer

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Having left for school in MA at 18, it was too far from TN to return for Thanksgiving. Which was great by me. Freedom!

    Have had every kind of gathering, cooked, not cooked, big, small, my house, other people’s.

    The only kind I haven’t enjoyed are with families, other people’s families. Families always mean drama of some sort.

    So, thinking there are just as many people grateful they will not have to endure drama as they are those sad they won’t get to gather with the clan.

    If your clan is worth seeing, they are happy you are staying safe at home. And will gather as soon as they safely can, even if that isn’t til next year.

  72. 72.

    germy

    A Hackensack School Board member who made national headlines by opposing a LGBTC curriculum has resigned after an embarrassing incident during a Zoom meeting.

    Frances Cogelja didn’t realize she’d left her laptop camera on when she took it with her while going to the bathroom during the public comments section of a board meeting Monday night.

    Nearly 150 participants, including students, apparently saw Cogelja relieve herself.

    Hackensack Board Member Who Opposed LGBTQ Curriculum Resigns After Embarrassing Zoom Incident

  73. 73.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    Yesterday and today when I opened the Washington Post URL on my computer, there were no pictures of Trump.  Thank you, America.  Thank you, Joe Biden.

  74. 74.

    sab

    @debbie: Sprint screwed me over in 1980s (I put in change of address and they switched my parents account. Mom was seriously pissed at me.) They got one month hyped up billing, and 40 years later I am still furious. Doesn’t seem like a good business model, but every one keeps doing it.

  76. 76.

    SFAW

    @Immanentize:

    Oh happy day.

    by The Edwin Hawkins Singers?

    “Oh happy day

    Oh happy day

    When Trump perp walks

    When Trump perp walks

    When Trump perp walks

    It wipes the tears away

    ETA: Yeah, I know you weren’t talking about the Murderer-in-Chief.

  81. 81.

    Shakti

    @sab:

    This is why I have a lot of plastic ziploc bags. I can just pop the mask in the bag and then pop it in my purse. If for some reason I take it off indoors I can pop it in the bag and then wash my hands before pulling it back out and putting it on by the loops (instead of leaving in on the the table.)

    Once the day is done it goes into a bucket and when I have a bunch I wash them on the hottest setting possible.

    I’m not worried about surface contamination but I do this for the same reason people avoid eating floor food. Or dumping used tissues on a table.

  90. 90.

    Emma from FL

    I am making a completely nontraditional Thanksgiving — the great holiday cook is my sister and due to her job she’s being extra careful, so it’s a zoom feast for us. I am making shrimp scampi with peas, apple and pear salad in balsamic vinegar and honey, and store bought (but very good, according to my source) key lime pie. Since I won’t have leftovers for tomorrow I will make a nice chicken and bok choy stir-fry served on soba noodles.

    Sigh. I miss being my sister’s sous-chef.

  99. 99.

    MagdaInBlack

    La Gordita and I are having a nice turkey breast all to ourselves. Of all the things I do not miss about my in-laws, the holidays are the things I do not miss the most =-)

    Happy Thanksgiving

  101. 101.

    sab

    All the zoomers are off zooming? Soon I may need to get an Iphone, or at least a smart android. Ludditing for years, but I might as well be Amish. Cut off. Don’t like it.

  102. 102.

    Sloane Ranger

    Happy Thanksgiving folks!

    Talking about leftovers reminded me of something my mother used to do when we were young. Turkey balls. These came at the very end of the Christmas leftovers season and involved picking as much of the remaining meat off the Turkey as you could, mixing it with stuffing, shaping the mixture into small balls and then shallow frying them. Great with chips!

  103. 103.

    Benw

    Happy thanksgiving everyone!

    I’m off to pick up breakfast and pies from our fav bakery!

    I have coffee and Bon Jovi’s on the radio

  110. 110.

    zhena gogolia

    So far today I have BJ Zoom at 10:00, friends’ Zoom at 3:00, and another set of friends’ Zoom at 5:30. Not sure when I’m going to cook the turkey breast.

  111. 111.

    Feathers

    @sab: I put a laundry basket by the front door so I can strip off and just dump everything there. Note: I do live alone. I’ve ended up just keeping a pair of outdoor jeans for my walks on my coat hook. Cuts down on laundry, which with the coin shortages is a thing which needs doing.

    Happy Thanksgiving to all. Going through a rocky patch with my family, so not looking forward to that Zoom. Will try to drop in on one here later.

  112. 112.

    Karen S.

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!

    My wife and I are going to spend the day with my father and overnight with him. My mother is in a nursing home getting rehab after being in the hospital for a little over a week. She’s got COPD and rheumatoid arthritis. My dad misses her terribly. Obviously, because of Covid protocols at healthcare facilities, we can’t visit with her in person. We did see her through her room window on Saturday so that was nice. We’ll see her today and/or tomorrow, through the window, again.

    Today’s meal is courtesy of a local soul food restaurant—fried turkey, mac and cheese, collard greens and peach cobbler. I’m supplying dinner rolls (Parker House rolls like my mom always made for holiday dinners) and cranberry sauce.

  113. 113.

    nclurker

    garlic and rosemary t.breast
    a bottle of clicquot while cooking.
    sides and pies from local bake sale.
    beaujolais noveau with the meal.
    left overs to be handled by my pit and her chocolate and golden.
    au votre sante’,ya’ll

  115. 115.

    sab

    @NotMax: Waffleiron=foreman grill?

    My mother hated her actual waffle iron with a passion. She hauled it out about once a month, and I heard words new to me every time she used it. Stuff stuck and burned.

  116. 116.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Morning, jackals!

    Was going to try to make the 10 am Zoom but we’re just getting ready for a late breakfast here in Casa Casi. I may try to poke my head in after 10:30. Otherwise I’ll try to make the 10 pm call.

    Meanwhile, have a happy, hopeful, safe and socially distanced Thanksgiving everybody!

  119. 119.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @rikyrah: I was terrified of pressure cookers until I got my Instant Pot. Now I use it all the time and it’s become one of my favorite kitchen appliances. As I sing to Ms. O from time to time, “I love her at lot, even more than my Instant Pot,” which is a great love indeed.

    Greetings and Happy Thanksgiving to all from Taos, with a view of the mountains and a pre-feast hike along the Rio Grande West Rim in the offing. Then finishing a puzzle, playing a new game, and some soaking in the private hot tub. It’s a good life, especially with a competent, no-drama Biden administration on the way.

  120. 120.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @sab: Ah, memories! My parents moved into our childhood home in 1960, and for our entire time there, there was a spot on the ceiling that according to my Mom was due to a pressure-cooker incident. Not quite sure what happened, but the end result was that the little thingie on top that was supposed to regulate the pressure blew off and smashed into the ceiling.

    And the waffle iron: We had a Sunday tradition of making waffles which were eating in broken overcooked pieces that my Dad scraped off the waffle iron, muttering and grumbling (he wasn’t a curser).

  121. 121.

    NotMax

    @sab

    Sure, why not? Might consider a pinch of baking powder to aid in rising.

    The waffle iron I have is so ancient it has a cloth-wrapped cord. Much cooking spray involved before using.

  123. 123.

    sab

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Skirts here, always long.

    Silly trivia.  Scots are only have been documented to have worn kilts from 1590s until outlawed 1746. Where did they learn about kilts? Possibly the Balkans. Kiltish male garments have been traditional there for at least a thousand years. Maybe Scots as mercenaries learned there?

  127. 127.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @NotMax: Holiday plans include neither of these, thankfully.

    In autumn the last few years the chain supermarkets around here (central MD) seem to have fetishized the addition of pumpkin to all sorts of inappropriate foodish products. Predictably, these don’t exactly fly off the shelves, and after the fact many are available at deep discount.

    Sometimes they can be profitably repurposed for niche uses. One year I found that replacing the tomato sauce in my ratatouille with “pumpkin spaghetti sauce” (still mainly tomato-based) puts a bit of a sweet sparkle in the eggplant and other squashes. Not a substitution I’d make year-round, but tasty in moderation. YMMV (your mouth may vomit :^D )…

  128. 128.

    NotMax

    @sab

    May have been more along the lines of “Come, on, people. Looking for ideas! What the bloody hell are we to do with all this wool?”

    :)

  129. 129.

    sab

    @NotMax: Apparently ’50s people weren’t as happy with their appliances as advertisers advertised. I learned cooking from Grandma because Mom (a better cook)  hated her appliances.

  130. 130.

    Uncle Cosmo

    FWIW – Last night I rang up a couple of Canadian friends who’ve been living in the States for decades now & (in a momentary inspiration) wished them a Happy Yanksgiving. (Feel free to steal; apply liberally!)

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    @sab

    Remember an electric potato peeling device from the time (vibrant turquoise plastic, of course) very quickly relegated to the topmost shelf in the walk-in pantry.

    “Just drop potatoes in, attach the lid and switch it on.” In a pig’s eye.

  135. 135.

    SaltWaterCleanse

    A loaf of warm crusty bread with olive oil and balsamic for dipping. Oh, and, a super freaking hoppy IPA.

    (Brown sugar cinnamon PopTarts for breakfast of course. As god intended).

    Rock on BJ peeps!

  137. 137.

    FelonyGovt

    Happy Thanksgiving to all. Just my husband and me today, and our only concession to holiday dinner is stuffing (I hate turkey, but love stuffing) and pumpkin pie. Looking forward to the 2 PM EST Zoom!

  138. 138.

    Capri

    @NotMax:   My grandfather was in the Russian Army in WWI. He was shot in the hip very shortly after the first time his unit came under fire.  He was carried to the medic tent by 4 guys, because the only way they could get off the front lines without being shot by their commanding officers was if they were carrying a wounded man.

     

    Happy Thanksgiving to all the Jackals – this is my favorite corner of the internet.

  140. 140.

    Central Planning

    For those of you that love garlic but hate peeling them: pull cloves off the head and put them in a mixing bowl. Get another that you put on top of the first one, like you’re putting two halves together to make a sphere. Hold them tightly and shake for 15 seconds or so and you’ll end up with most, if not all the skins, removed from the cloves.

    Mrs. CP taught me that the other day. It’s great!

  144. 144.

    Central Planning

    @OzarkHillbilly: maybe too many? I did a whole head earlier today and some didn’t clean off. I took out the peeled ones and did another shake and they were done.

     

    @NotMax: I have done that before too. I do that when I have just a few cloves. Otherwise I put them in the mini food processor.

  146. 146.

    Just One More Canuck

    Happy Thanksgiving to you all from the Great White North (well, mostly green today). May all your turkeys be …. organized

  147. 147.

    J R in WV

    @Nelle:

    I’m not the most regular here, but know that I value this community, even if not in the inner circle.

    Honey, if you want to be in the “inner circle” of this community, all you have to do is ask! Shazam! And Done!  

    .  .  .  .       ;~)

  150. 150.

    gene108

    @debbie:

    Probably lost business, because of customers who no longer have landlines and/or cut their cable package.

    The coronavirus recession probably accelerated this, as people need to save money wherever possible

    A few small increases that would lead to little loss in existing customers makes sense.

    If a customer is very price sensitive they would be more likely to have dropped by now.

  151. 151.

    debbie

    @Jager:

    I’ve been since 1982. After paying all my credit card debt off about five years ago, I’ve used it exclusively for everything. I’d bet it comes to somewhere around the low five figures annually. Definitely their loss.

  152. 152.

    debbie

    @gene108:

    Right. Spectrum will be raising their prices in a month or two. I can’t wait for that argument (if I call to complain, they’ll reduce it a bit).

  153. 153.

    mali muso

    Hoping to make the late night Zoom!

    Is it too soon to play Xmas tunes?   2020 needs all the cheer it can get.  Bing Crosby is crooning to me as I pull together our tiny turkey day feast.

  155. 155.

    Bruuuuce

    @mali muso: Wait a couple of hours. When Santa pulls up in front of Macy’s, Christmas is on. Not before, even in this plague-ridden year of breaking norms

  160. 160.

    WaterGirl

    @debbie: oops, yes there was!  I will do that for the others!  :-)

    Our practice session turned into a really nice conversation that went right up until the 10am one started.  So my excuse is that I was distracted.

  163. 163.

    Another Scott

    How did I never notice that about Franklin? :-(

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone.

    Stay safe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  164. 164.

    CaseyL

    Good morning, and a Happy Thanksgiving to all!

    I’m with the 2:00 Zoom, and already have Zoom Envy for the earlier batch:  Blogfather Himself showed up?  Score!

    Late afternoon I go next door for Thanksgiving Dinner. I am contributing pies, one Cherry and one Custard. Store bought, but they look yummy.  Per tradition, there will be vastly more food than people (just the three of us, after all).  And old movies on TV.

    Then, I will probably come home and fall into a food coma.

  165. 165.

    Yutsano

    Happy Turkey Day BJ Peeps!

    Gonna be pretty low key since my older brother decided not to come from Oregon. Except for my younger brother coming from Pullman we’re all local so we should be all good. I’m a hair worried because of a couple of close encounters in Seattle but I won’t notice anything until next week. Cannot wait to get some chowing down done here!

  166. 166.

    raven

    My wife sent pictures from Asheville, they are all spread out and the dogs are running around. Bohdi and I are just hangin.

  169. 169.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @CaseyL:

    I was in briefly for 10 am, but I was hearing wifely howls as the dog was yakking everywhere, plus I was in cooking tasks. I’ll try the 2 pm, too. My bird won’t be done yet.

  173. 173.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    When I worked in restaurants in my late teens and early 20s, pressure cookers were last resorts which got hauled out when the load of diners was insane. We were pretty reckless with them, and none of us got hurt. Basically, once they hit time, we were popping the top and hitting them with the faucet to bring down pressure.

  174. 174.

    JMG

    My soon to be daughter in law set up a multiple video link allowing them to show their kitchen, us ours and my daughter’s in France. A very very pleasant surprise.

  175. 175.

    realbtl

    Happy T day folks.  Yesterday I baked up a giant Costco chicken pot pie and delivered portions to three friends, stepson came by this morning for his after hunting- got a nice buck so yum venison this winter- and now just hanging out with the dog and BJ.

  176. 176.

    Delk

    A racist homophobe school board member in NJ resigned because she thought her laptop camera was off and she took a dump in front of 150 parents and students.

  178. 178.

    Miss Bianca

    @Delk: There’s an analogy in there somewhere…not elegant, perhaps, but pungent.

    Ewww….

    OTOH, that Lincoln Project ad just killed me. Damn. I hope those dude/ettes stay on our side. They really got a way with that media messaging.

  179. 179.

    Ruckus

    @sab:

    And here I thought that was just my cocker spaniel…

    Had to put kid latches on all the cabinet doors – basically anything below waist level. Or move everything higher. Like living in a flood zone, everything had to be out of reach – of the water or the dog.

  180. 180.

    JMG

    Turkey is in the oven with the oyster stuffing. Alice making the apple pie right now, then she’ll cut up the turnip for boiling and mashing. I’ll do the mashed potatoes, gravy and green beans with shallots and a hint of balsamic vinegar. Alice remains undecided on red or white wine. Possible we’ll do both. Decaf expresso with the pie. ETA for liftoff is 6:30.

  181. 181.

    Ksmiami

    @OzarkHillbilly: true story, Fred Willard’s daughter attended school with me and was pretty cool. He came to visit her and I got to hang out with them a bit. He was such a great man.

  182. 182.

    StringOnAStick

    We moved from CO to OR 4 weeks ago tomorrow but 99% of our stuff is in storage there until we complete the full house repaint and new flooring (this place was really beat up when we bought it). We’ve been using the abbreviated set of camping cookware, so no way to cook a turkey and no time anyway because of the work that must be done.

    Baked chicken breast and whipped cream on frozen cherries are our big plans.

    Since Covid started my husband and I recognise how awful it is but we’ve tried to find the little positives when we can. It forced us to move 6 months sooner than we’d planned and we are glad we did, made me retire 9 months early to avoid a dangerous job, I can avoid the awful obligatory holiday get togethers with my tRumpy family, and my husband got an early retirement package last week that he didn’t expect and that will reduce the coming job losses at his employer’s. I am most grateful that Joe and Kamala won! Tell Kay that yesterday Adam Schiff sent out an email that includes everything she has suggested about building a 365 day Democratic campaign system, right down to hiring locals year round for party building. I’m super grateful for that!

    Now I must get back to painting; enjoy your day everyone!

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    MagdaInBlack

    @realbtl: One of my favorite Mid January dinner memories is venison steak on the grill, sweet corn from the freezer, home canned peaches for desert =-)

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! Sucks to be isolating from family but we’re so close to banishing the orange troll back to underneath the bridge. That makes me happy.

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    Redshift

    Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I had a zoom call with family earlier, and am going to the parents to pick up dinner shortly. See some of you on zoom later.

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    Amir Khalid

    May everyone have much to give thanks for. I hope to make the 10pm session, which is 9am Friday my time.

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    Litlebritdifrnt

    Lovely tweet from Zander

     

    Zandarparents status: Atticus is not allowed in the kitchen because Zandardad will feed him approximately 37 pounds of turkey and he knows this and he is still a good boy.

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    Librarian

    @germy: I believe that every person who spoke put their mask on the podium. I don’t understand why they did that; don’t they have fucking pockets?

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    Luciamia

    Pres and Dr. Biden have a Thanksgiving message on YouTube. I think he’s addressed the country more times in three weeks than Trump in four years.

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    MomSense

    Turkey is in the oven and I opened some nice wine to sip while I make the pie, cranberry sauce, and onions.  We are just 3 today so I’m making fewer sides.  These two boys just want Turkey, stuffing potatoes and cranberry sauce with gravy over everything.  Middle kid called for the Turkey recipe.  He is making the Turkey for his fiancée’s family today.

    I mentioned in the zoom thread that the happy surprise today was that in our family zoom my dad was home on the couch and not in the hospital.  Thanks to all the jackals for the good wishes.

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    @debbie: We were so poor growing up that gravy was a meal, brown gravy over rice for dinner or bacon gravy for breakfast. I could make a meal out of turkey gravy. Weirdly, the boy hates gravy.

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    MomSense

    @debbie: 
    When I was a kid I went through a phase where I only ate mashed potatoes so my grandma would hide veggies in the potatoes and turned it into a game.

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    germy

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    We were so poor growing up, for breakfast we’d eat “Ordinary K” cereal

    I was so poor growing up, we only had a calendar to use as toilet paper… Now those days are behind me..

    Seriously though, I didn’t really know how poor we were.  When I had grown up and moved out, my mother told me they’d almost lost the house a few times.  They didn’t tell us kids that stuff because they didn’t want us to worry.  But we knew they were nervous anyway.  We just didn’t understand why.

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    Sister Golden Bear

    @gene108: One trick to cancelling cable service without spending all day on the phone is to tell them you’re moving outside of their service area.

    They will ask you for the ZIP code of your new address so I picked a remote town in the Sierras, and used a TV service look-up (easily found via Googling) to verify that Comcast wasn’t available there.

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    Just Some Fuckhead

    @germy: Same here, the difference being that I knew how bad off we were. I knew the church was making our mortgage payment when my stepdad was disabled, fighting with civil service for a disability check. Hell, they pimped us out for work picking crops, mowing yards, raking leaves and got me a full-time job when I was 15. I never saw the money most of the time. When I was allowed to keep some of it, I knew we were “flush”.

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    Kent

    @Sister Golden Bear: You can use the same trick to get different local TV stations (and NFL games) from DirectTV and such.  If you live in say Texas and don’t want to see the Cowboys every week, give them a Seattle billing address and you’ll get Seattle TV and the Seahawks every week.  As long as you pay online, it doesn’t matter where your physical address is in their system

    That only works with Satellite TV.  Comcast actually knows where you are because they installed the wires.

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    germy

    A few days ago we drove out to our local small farm.  They have chickens, turkeys, pork, beef. We usually visit once or twice a month.

    This time I waited in the car while my wife went in to browse.  I noticed four large, handsome dogs roaming around the parking area.  Nice dogs, friendly faces.  And big!

    It reminded me of the old saying “As fit as a butcher’s dog!”

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    The Lodger

    @Skepticat: Thanks for reading Daily Kos so I don’t have to. (Although I did have an unpleasant flashback to our unlamented BiP for a moment. )

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    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    Great to see faces with names – am babysitting smoking turkey while phone is recharging. Will be back for later sessions. Cant seem to make this Kindle work with my zoom account.

    Operator error….

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    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @NotMax: My mother had one of those!  Probably circa 1955.  It lived in the garage, though.  I never saw her use it.  Also the cord was frayed so it probably wasn’t safe.

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    trollhattan

    @A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan):

    There were two when I was growing up: a square one with a dial and fancypants light to indicate it had warmed up–late ’40s vintage–and a round one with a cord and plug, nothing else–that one I think was from the ’30s. Once the cast iron waffle surface had seasoned they never, ever stuck to it.

    Always wondered what happened to them in the various parental downsizings. Perhaps hazy childhood memories at work, but no modern waffle iron can match their perfectly cooked waffles, with just the right amount of crispness.

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    tybee

    dinner consisted mostly of snacking from the various dishes and 4 or so banana/pineapple daiquiris

    mmmm.

    bananas were home grown in coastal georgia.  :)

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