Good Mornin’ Y’all! Up and caffeinatin’. YAWN ‘Tis 45 Amurrkin out and clear with a predicted high of 72 and mostly N.O.S. This mornin’ I shall head over to the church house to take care of some duties and then back to da cave for sloth time. Needless to say, sup and any other need to feed shall be leftovers from yestiddy. We have plenty even with havin’ sent some folks home with stuff. Oh and I suppose I should empty the dishwasher and put the fancy eatin’ plates and such back in the china cabinet.
Now I need more caffeine and rumbly tummy wants to be fed. Then, alas, alack, and bother, I must needs purtify and don appropriate bein’ in public attire. Life makes such awful demands!
Woke up too early again, but that is okay today. I went to bed early last night, and I have lots to do today. Turkey should be totally thawed and it will fit into the instant pot, so we’ll see how it turns out.
It’s a chilly 36, feels like 28, degrees outside. Supposed to get up to 46, not too horrible for irking outside.
No park today, too much to get ready this morning. They are coming earlier than I expected. Ripple is upset, Echo is busy pulling their toys back out of the basket and spreading them around the floor.
My son is sleeping, but he needs to get up soon. I need his help moving the love seat so I can get all the toys out from under it and vacuum. I may add taking the love seat to the dump to today’s list of things to do. I don’t know, I can use the extra seating on Sunday and I’m not ready to buy something else. However, it’s old, uncomfortable, and an irritation because it is just high enough that the dogs can push stuff under it but not high enough to get anything back out without lifting it up.
Well, that was weird - I was reading this thread and my computer decided it needed to restart. That after my recent account adventure - I’m starting to wonder if this machine is possessed! :eek:
Another weird night of waking after stoopit dreams. Maybe I need Mel to get me thru a night uninterrupted. At the moment (a bit after 8 of the AM) **FCD **is out at his desk and Daughter and fambly are all still asleep. I will shower and dress shortly (can’t stay in robe and slippers all day, right?) then I need to sort thru some drawing for FCD.
I thought about doing leaves today - maybe tomorrow instead. Just not feeling it today.
Oh, and I need to pull the turkey out of the fridge and prep it for smoking - probably do that tomorrow also. Just don’t feel like doing much today. Maybe after a bracing shower…
Morning from irk. I only have a half day today and probably should have just taken off the whole day but here I am. Buddy is irking today too.
I am cooking a small turkey roast and some dressing and green beans today and a pie so we can snack all weekend. I can’t get by without my good cornbread dressing. My fence should be here today for the tree so I shall get the tree up this weekend.
I don’t know what to tell my son to do.
I have been helping him with this group community service project and get nothing from the other members of the team. His co-leader said he would help look for something, nothing from him. Every place we have called has either not gotten back to us or doesn’t need anyone at this time.
The only place that needed help was gift wrapping presents for the United Way, and almost all the slots are full. I had grabbed 5 slots, but had to release them because only two of the five could come at that time. Then nobody answered when they are available because ‘supposedly’ their schedules change weekly and they have no idea until the week before what their schedule is. Maybe… but I think it is bullshit because they should be able to request a time off and be scheduled around it. I’m really pissed at the co-leader because he has done absolutely nothing to help. He said he would, but did nothing.
So I guess my son, who did work on the project, will get a big fucking zero, unless he can get the team partial credit for at least trying.
The part that really pisses me off is that multiple times we sent out a text requesting information and get NOTHING back.
No matter what happens, the entire team gets the same grade, so he did all this work for jack.
I get that they have jobs and families, but if you can’t do the goddamn work then drop out.
I won’t say anything out of respect for my son who doesn’t like confrontation, but you best believe I’d have a whole lot to say to them if it were my grades that were being affected.
I think love seat is going to dump. Da jungle has some chairs at a good price that match what I already have and I ordered two of them. Probably should have only ordered one. They’ll be delivered Wednesday, so the love seat has to go.
Everybody should be getting here around noon. I was told the youngest of the boys is going to stay with me until Christmas. I hope he likes raking leaves.
We’re having turkey day today. TheGirlChild[sup]tm[/sup] and her family had T-day with his mother (the one who’s 98) yesterday and then, after visiting with her bro and family, drove over here last night. About a 6 hour drive. They got here about 11pm. Unfortunately their dog stepped on the punkin pie in the back of the truck. :eek: I’m not even going to comment. :dubious:
Anyway preparations are being made for feasting. I’m staying out of the way. I’m all helpful like that.
Happy black Friday, and national leftovers day. I’m one of those people who can eat turkey anytime. I lurves it!
Golden Corral was decent yesterday. And going later, we avoided the rush. I did have to have my cranberry log slices at home, though. It’s a tad chillier today.
Took Ursala Kitteh for her post surgery check up. Had to trap her behind the terlit! Girl is fine and has forgiven me. I forgot to go to irk today but am checking emails from home in front of the teevee watching Harry Potter movies. That counts as work. I thought about going to Target today but a nanosecond later realized that was a foolish idea.
The son and his houseful came out to AZ for the holiday. We ate ourselves all outta shape and generally enjoyed being together. COTU#3, otherwise known as the Grandson, requested snow. Well, it snowed like crazy this AM, and we be waiting for them guys to come out to the house! Our home has a deck completely around the perimeter, and there is all this pristine snow with NO mud included, just waiting for him!
Re: MMP lingo. And here I thought N.O.S. meant “Nice Out Side.” Silly VOW!
~VOW
(COTU=Center of the Universe, a title created when the first grandbaby was born. With the birth of each subsequent grandbaby, it became obvious the Universe could have more than one center!)
I sorted thru the yarn that was donated to AARP - OMG, what horrible stuff it is! Some was the thread-like stuff for crocheting doilies and such - trashed. Some was wool-blend - trashed. There were several single, small skeins of weird-texture yarn - trashed. Some were just small balls that were pretty much worthless - trashed. LOTS of browns - not sure what I’ll do with that.
And all they want are baby blankets or lap robes - BORING!! I think my days of knitting for them are about done. Maybe I’ll contact some local places.
I’m going to make a brisket for supper, with healthy sides to make up for yesterday’s sugar overload. Beyond that, I think the rest of my day will be wasted.
Home. Pie in oven which needs 400F. Cornbread in same oven that requires 450. Green beans on top of stove and turkey in fast pot for a pre cook. Oven is at 400. Cornbread will have to deal. We have a fancy stainless steel 6 burner commercial stove on the porch but that would require a pilot be lit so I shall make do with kitchen oven. Once the pie is done the dressing shall go in and the turkey finished off. The pecan pie only needs to thaw. The one in the oven is a cherry pie.
I am hangry already so must find something to hold me over.
omg the two younger boys are like two tornadoes going through the house
poor baby echo hid the entire time they were here
they spent a good bit of time sliding down the bilco doors
then found out they could open the doors and that the doors make a real LOUD bang when you slam them shut
but squirrel hole is fixed
shed roof can’t be fixed by niece2 ex-bf as the entire roof is rotted and needs to be replaced
he cut down as much of the trees as he could get to, but unfortuately not the trunks pushing the fence over
bedroom rug is down i haven’t looked at it yet, but from what I understand it goes wall to wall which doesn’t make sense as it is 8x10 i’ll have to looks at it but as long as my bed stops sliding across the floor i’ll be happy
love seat is loaded in the truck but the dump is closed today so my son and i will take it tomorrow
or i can probably even take it by myself getting it on the truck is the hard part getting it off should be easy
kind of sorry i ordered the chairs now, i like the look of an almost empty living room
dinner was good but way too much food
turkey in the instant pot doesn’t look so good but is very moist and yummy
we’ll be having leftovers for sunday lunch i think
or i’ll figure out something to do with turkey and ham
The brisket has been in the oven a bit over an hour, and it’s smelling really good. I’ll start the sides in about 45 minutes. Supper should be good and healthy.
Flytrap, is that a joke? If so, I don’t know the punch line.
Regardless, it was good. About an hour before it was done, I dumped a sack of baby carrots into the pot. Roxy lurved the carrots! I’m so glad that kid likes veggies.
