May all your giblets be crossed (Thanksgiving 2021 thread)

Friday Thanksgiving is never the same, but through the vagaries of joint custody that’s what’s on tap for this year, leaving Thursday free. Thinking of driving down to Montgomery if the weather holds and taking in the Turkey Day Classic game between Alabama State and Tuskegee.

What are your plans this week?

 

I gotta bake.

 

Kid coming home

 

There's a chance I get in my car and drive and leave this town behind.

 

Working. Same as about the last 12 Thanksgivings. But not something that bothers me a lot. Never was a holiday I ever got too excited about.

But it is long past time to get a job with better hours and weekends and holidays off. Never actually had that.

 

Holiday season is always a lesson in diplomacy. My dad lives within 20 minutes of me and my wife. Mom is 3 hours from me. In laws are 5.5 hours in the other direction. It’s always which holiday is whose turn, when can we do make up holiday and so on. We manage but it is touchy

 

Parents are coming here. I still have to assemble additional chairs to fit all the people around my table. Not to mention, clean my house so it appears that I'm a functioning adult that doesn't live in squalor.

 

And to all here, happy thanksgiving.

 

Made me laugh - work passed out $15 Butterball coupons - which isn't nothing, particularly when you can use them on anything Butterball, lunch meat, filets, cuts etc. But it made me think of the classic NFL prank of vets telling rookies about a local butcher giving away free turkeys to players. Its been passed down through the years, but one year - as the NFL Films bit showed, another vet arranged for the rookies to get the turkeys to turn the prank on the vets. Pretty funny.

We were planning a big family Thanksgiving. kids coming back from college, mom having some cancer removed in December, "post-Covid" etc. Well, one of the kids decided school wasn't for them and bailed, my dad didn't want to drive up from California because he's not much of a driver anymore (he's 81), but still has a hard time admitting it and tried to put it on my mom's health - so I'll miss the family drama. Quiet holidays really aren't all that bad.

 

Being the only one at the table younger than 73.

 

Son and his wife are here for the week, along with their two cats. Food shopping today and tomorrow, with much prep work.

 

Made this for my private friends group if anyone wants to play along.