American Thanksgiving

[Sheilbh]

From a distance, Thanksgiving looks like the best family holiday around.  I'm very jealous of your planned indulgence.  Enjoy

[Berkut]

When a man is tired of Thanksgiving, he is tired of life.  And I'm tired of Thanksgiving.  

Thanksgiving is the best holiday by far. All the great food and wine and everything, none of the expectation to buy people shit.

Yep, and none of the religious guilt bullshit associated with Christmas and Easter.

It is just getting together with friends and family, and sitting back and saying "Hey, life is pretty good, lets eat too much and have fun".

[Caliga]

From a distance, Thanksgiving looks like the best family holiday around.  I'm very jealous of your planned indulgence.  Enjoy

Yep, it's pretty swell.

[katmai]

kat, milk gravy is the kind you put on biscuits and gravy.  I usually make it with sausage.  Method:  cook up half a roll of bulk sausage (I always use Purnell's medium hot... Purnell's is made here locally) in a skillet, add a cup of water, a cup of milk, and some flour and pepper, and cook until thickened.

I know what milk gravy is, just like busting brazens chops.

[Grey Fox]

I hate having to work on this day & tomorrow. Too much is happening outside the realm of work to really be interested to work.

[jimmy olsen]

Cal, what do you mean by hanging paintings everywhere? Is that some kind of tradition or are you just "dressing your home", as the makeover artists say?

I literally mean I was drilling into my drywall, mounting brackets, and hanging paintings from them.  I've hung six over the past week and have to do one more tonight in the dining room.

What kind of paintings?

[CountDeMoney]

The dazzling urbanites downstairs started their bird around 6am, I could smell that baby by 7am.
I just hope they don't leave for 4 hours while it's cooking all day.  Because that's the stupid shit dazzling urbanites do, and they make the papers the next day after they've burned the building down.

[Caliga]

What kind of paintings?

Ok, I guess accurately it's a mix of paintings and pictures.  Over the fireplace I hung a huge landscape painting... it's like a picture of a forest in mostly hues of brown (matches the mantle) with sunlight shining through.  Downstairs, I hung an equally large painting of the Matterhorn, over the sofa.  Above our writing desk I hung a smaller painting of an English countryside-looking pastoral scene (basically a bubbling brook lined with leafy trees in summer).

In the bedroom, I hung three blown-up (8x10) photographs.  One is of a bunch of boats tied up on Isla Mujeres, Mexico, which I took myself.  One is of the beach at Edisto Beach, South Carolina, which I also took myself.  The final one is a picture of Anacapri looking down from Villa San Michele.  While I was there and took a bunch of photos from that vantage point, none of them turned out (it was a foggy, overcast day) so I found one on the Internet and edited it to my liking with Paint.NET.

Princesca also wanted me to hang some painting (I forget what of) in the dining room, but the spot where she insisted on hanging it was setting off the AC detector off like crazy on my stud finder, and I ain't getting electrocuted for the sake of her dining room looking busier.   So I stashed it behind the liquor cabinet in there and she didn't seem to notice.

[Caliga]

The dazzling urbanites downstairs started their bird around 6am, I could smell that baby by 7am.
I just hope they don't leave for 4 hours while it's cooking all day.  Because that's the stupid shit dazzling urbanites do, and they make the papers the next day after they've burned the building down.

We've got a massive turkey in the oven right now.  Smells awesome and I'm getting hungry as all fuck.

[Grey Fox]

Will you take all this down after thanksgiving?

[Caliga]

Will you take all this down after thanksgiving?

Fuck no.  You know how much work all that shit was?

[Grey Fox]

Will you take all this down after thanksgiving?

Fuck no.  You know how much work all that shit was?

I do but I was feeling like Princesca wanted you to hang all that shit up only for your thanksgiving dinner & after she's going to hold up sex until they are down.

[Razgovory]

From a distance, Thanksgiving looks like the best family holiday around.  I'm very jealous of your planned indulgence.  Enjoy

Oh, it's grand!  Probably my favorite holiday!  No obligations, you just eat and hang out with people you like and maybe catch some football.  Very relaxing and pleasant.  I guess someone has to cook, but that's about it.

[Jacob]

Yeah, Thanksgiving is pretty swell. Some people are lucky and have both Canadian and American family, and thus get to have two Thanksgivings.

[Caliga]

I bugged the SHIT out of my wife's grandma today to nominate me for Kentucky Colonel.