HAPPY THANKSGIVING | Key West Lou

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Completely satisfied Thanksgiving every person!

One of many nice holidays!

Started the identical annually. Noise waking me at 5 am. Coming from the kitchen. My spouse getting ready a 20 pound plus turkey for the oven. I did the husband’s factor. Turned over and went again to sleep.

The children spent the morning watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The smells permeating the home on the rise. Nice meals cooking.

All the time 20-30 for dinner. Dinner usually at 5. Partying started at 3 with cocktails. The home filling. My dad and mom, kids, grandchildren and associates who would drop in for a drink and a Completely satisfied Thanksgiving greeting.

The dinner at all times excellent! Turkey, after all. Stuffing, totally different sorts of potatoes, stuffed artichokes and different greens. Pumpkin and different pies for desert. Bottles of wine devoured throughout dinner. Chef spouse outdid herself annually.

The boys leaving the desk quickly after dinner to look at soccer video games. Truly to sit down in a snug chair and go to sleep from the heavy turkey meal.

At some  level early in maturity, Lisa had watched a TV present indicating the best way to carve a turkey. There may be an artwork concerned. Lisa turned the turkey cutter for years. The artist.

Our eating room was good sized. The desk held 12 comfortably. But the quantity to be seated at all times exceeded 20. Reaching 30 and plus once in a while. A pecking order had been established early on for seating. It was based mostly on seniority. Seniority decided by age. The elders received the eating room desk. The following group the kitchen desk which held ten. The remainders card tables which have been arrange within the middle corridor.

It took years to graduate to the eating room desk itself. Daughter Lori was 24 when she made it. Nobody minded. It was a practice.

Because the elders received sleepy, and many others. and left the principle desk, the youthful relations moved to it. Usually at desert time. So it went.

Extra turkey and drink received to me early. Usually I used to be in mattress dozing by 9 whereas most others have been nonetheless having fun with the vacation downstairs.

The remnants of the turkey made for good turkey sandwiches the subsequent day. I loved the chilly stuffings and artichokes. So did our kids and grandchildren. They popped in through the subsequent day to glutton on the leftovers.

A pleasant day.

I particularly loved the conversations on the dinner desk. Three and 4 generations concerned. Tales about occasions which occurred whereas rising up shared. Some denied by the “culprits.” My mom was not one to disclaim sparing the rod and spoiling the kid. Nevertheless every time I recalled that part of my upbringing, my mom would deny it. All the time an amusing state of affairs to all seated on the desk, though that they had heard it time and again for a few years.

My mom and I had a particular bond. A portray of her hangs earlier than me as I write this weblog. We nonetheless converse day-after-day.

Take pleasure in your vacation!



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