Well in the greatest of all American Holiday Traditions I ate so much food I can hardly move and drank as much booze as is humanly possible and now I am just taking it easy!! Loved watching football and I would like to wish every member of Political Forum and Mods too a HAPPY THANKSGIVING!! AboveAlpha
Like normal, refugee Thanksgiving. Just a group of expat family and friends with a few homeless souls. I did the turkey and oyster stuffing, freaking perfect! Lucky me. Dawn did the mashed potatoes and the gravy, ambrosia! Shaun cooked the squash as well as the green bean casserole. Glorious. Tammy gave us the pies, Apple and Pumpkin, damn! Thank the Lord for Joe, beer, wine and a quart of double malt scotch! Happy Thanksgiving all. Labour Sent from my SM-T900 using Tapatalk
All is well in Texas. We had potato salad, turkey, stuffing, enchiladas, black bean soup, green bean bundles(wrapped in bacon and dipped in butter with brown sugar), cheesy bread, baked beans, cherry pie, pumpkin cheesecake, ice cream, pecan pie, and fruit salad. My mom and my wife cooked it all. I love those women. We'll be eating left overs for a week. The Cowboys beat the Redskins and the weather was perfect.
I need 7500 calories a day to not lose weight and I figure I just ate about 15,000 calories today! LOL!! The pecan pie ALONE must have been at least 4000 calories!! LOL!! AA - - - Updated - - - Dude I am so sorry and if you were here I would set you up with the best Thanksgiving Dinner you ever had!! I wish you the best of luck. AA
We had of course turkey a 24 lbs one that I carved but we also had shrimp cocktail, scallops wrapped in bacon, stuffed lobster tails that I did on the grill, ham, mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams, butternut squash, candied carrots, and the best gravy ever!! Also we had all sorts of pies, cakes and cookies as well as my favorite PECAN PIE!! i AM FULL BUT....I am still eating!! LOL!! AA
I hope things work out for you. I am wealthy but I worked very hard to be so and I know what it is to both not have money as well as I know what it is to be alone if the 2nd is the issue. I remember being in Georgia....no not the Georgia in the U.S. but the former Soviet Republic as my Team was providing security for U.S. Military Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Weapon Destruction Teams. It was Thanksgiving and I would have usually spent it with my Team but the day before I got a call and had to travel to another Bio-weapons site to assess it and I got there and because of an issue I cannot go into here ended up having to stay by myself in this absolute PIT of a hotel all alone. It was Thanksgiving and I was feeling REALLY LOW and I went down to the lobby on this pit of a hotel and saw they had a small bar and I had a few drinks and met this very old woman who was 93 years old sitting at the bar drinking this stuff they called Corn which was liquor made from corn and she kept downing shots straight up and she asked me in broken English what was wrong as I had a frown on my face. I told her what I was doing there and how it was Thanksgiving back home and that was why I was feeling down and then......then she told me a story that is too long to go into here but it was about the suffering she went through during WWII and then under Communism. It was UNREAL!! After hearing that I cheered up as anyone who would have heard the same story would thank their lucky stars that they were NOT that lady!! LOL!! Good luck you buddy!! Things will work out. AA
True. I came to this realization in that hotel bar in Georgia. What she told me was unreal. The pain and anguish she and her family went through astounded even ME and I have seen things that would make just about anyone puke!! I am just thankful I have my family and my health and especially thankful I am not alone!! AA
I hope you have a better Thanksgiving next year. I'm so spoiled having my family, my wife's family, aunt's and uncle's and their families. I had 5 or 6 different places I could have had a feast with relatives. It's easy to forget about those without families. One of my parents' neighbors lost his wife last week. I grew up with her son and he spent the day with his dad. We invited him to our house and even offered to take him a plate of food, but his son and his family were bringing food and he wanted to stay home and rest and watch football. Get with relatives or at least with friends over the holidays. Bring a jello dish, a banana pudding, or a fruit basket just so you don't feel like a moocher and have a good time. They will most likely hook you up with an extra plate to take home and you don't feel left out. Any decent family you know would love to have you over and if you are in DFW over holidays, PM me in advance. Just because we are opposite on political opinions, doesn't mean we aren't decent people. Stay well and find some decent friends who won't let you be alone on holidays. I've found that some of my best friends are people who aren't the coolest people in the room, but they would give you the shirt off of their back to help you.
Good post and your right as I know a lot of people who would be only more than happy to have some company over on Thanksgiving!! I would most certainly invite anyone who wanted to come over my home!! AA
I was thinking more of the family of the man whom I read about who was killed the day before thanksgiving after he fell into the wood chipper at a Georgia Pacific plant. At least it wasn't the day before New Years when all that confetti flying around might trigger some serious PTSD.
Good morning all. Mild hangover, tryptophan depression, an uneaten over stuffed turkey sandwich smashed on my night stand, bleeding its juices on my phone...... Significant other is sprawled across the bed width wise, arms dangling off the side, power snoring, she needs a c-pap machine. The living room has two, maybe three (I'm counting 5 feet) guests buried in the couches, genders unknown. The guest room is locked, the depravity in there could be criminal. Someone trudged to the barn last night and got a snow machine out, I see the tracks outbound nothing inbound. Disconcerting. 5" of snow overnight, on top of a few feet. No ones going anywhere, ugh. Making a Bloody Mary now, I'll put it all back together tomorrow. Turkey ommlet. Cheers Oops, just checked voice mail, Joe took my truck, his antique Volvo apparently got stuck going down the hill. So, the missing, wounded, hors de combat count: I have two missing machines and one missing human, four comatose guests. Vermonters!? Cheers!
We had as close as possible a NewEngland Thanksgiving dinner. My wife is part American Indian and English so you cannot get closer to Plymouth Rock than that. We even had Indian corn pudding which my sister makes thinking that it authentic my wife says it is great every year and shrugs her shoulders when someone asks if her Indian relatives made the same recipe and says " oh yes the same a Maizing way. - hidden pun -Maize. My mom who is 92 reminded us that our side of the family is celebrating ours 67 th year of Thanksgiving in this great country...We landed not far from Plymouth Rock in a little town called Boston. We laughed when my wife reminded us that half of her ancestors celebrated 10 to 15 thousand years in this great country. So yes we celebrated a real ecletic real American Thanksgiving. Hope everyone else had a great one also.
I am right now very thankful to read that parts of the USA have snow earlier than we do here in Nova Scotia, Canada. It is a dark day, but well above freezing. No snow on the ground yet! Actually for about the last decade we haven't been getting much snow until the last of December or early in January. Sorry for gloating...... but back on January 12, 2001 when I flew to Ecuador, my buddy drove me through a blizzard to the airport.... but wow.... it was quite warm when I changed flights in Newark, New Jersey, so I was thinking that USA weather was better than ours pretty well all across the nation.
We had a young kid have his safety strap break and he fell into a chipper and it cut him all up to the waist and he died having 2 children I believe. He was from a town over from mine and I met his family and it was just so sad for such a young man like that to lose his life so senselessly. AA - - - Updated - - - From Massachusetts HEY NEIGHBOR!! lol!! We didn't get the snow you did just flurries but upstate NY got HAMMERED with snow!! AA
Dennis every time I go to Canada I FREEZE MY ASS OFF!! LOL!! I mean....I live in Mass. and we get some crazy weather hear and a HELL of a lot of snow and when it get's cold it is FREEZING WELL BELOW ZERO COLD here but still....if I am in Montreal in May I am SHIVERING!! LOL!! And I used to train members of the U.S. Military in Arctic Survival in Alaska!! Still for some reason every time I am in Canada it is F@#KING COLD!!! LOL!! Maybe it's because I am always dressed for what the weather will be here where I live and I keep forgetting if it is 50 Degrees F. here it is 30 Degrees F THERE!! aa
Haha, I was with family. I didn't really feel safe going downstairs for dinner. Long story short, I'm trans and some members of my family make me really nervous to be around. Then one of them came into my room demanding that I go downstairs and when I said no the member basically told me to get out. So I did. I made it back to college but by then everything around me was closed, so I ate some of the food I bought in case something like this happened. It was just a bad Thanksgiving for me. But hopefully next year will be better. - - - Updated - - - That's a really nice story. I'm glad you got to spend it with someone.
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