Tonight we are a very grateful household. The day started off with the keeper heading down to the cathedral for the Mass and she said it was wonderfully full, with everyone loaded down with sacks of food, and the women's schola sang angelically, and the assembly's songs were meaningful and not patriotic drivel. She loved how everyone moved the mountain of food to the rectory basement and headed for coffee and good donuts after. She met a lady named Cynthia who is a Lakota Sioux, and she had a nice conversation with Mary before heading out home to get the dinner started. By the way, the remedy is working well. She only coughed at the inscensings.
But what a feast we had. The best turkey,all natural, that the keeper roasted on top of a bed of herbs she had grown in the garden, and some onions and garlic and parsnips, and carrots and parsley, and she smeared the turkey with olive oil and rosemary and paprika, and several hours later the house was all turkey and sweet sage and rosemary. Then her friends J and W showed up with their part of the dinner and it is now over. "It is so delicious!" they kept exclaiming at each course. But we were so well behaved. We are shooting for those hamsters..... But there is a photo above of Alice waiting for J and W to finish the potatoes and the gravy so she can get her share of the bird. As you will notice the other photo catches me napping until they noticed I might be hungry. I am way more subtle than Alice is.
The keeper added a Martha Stewart touch by filling tumblers with water and cranberries and f floating candles in them and placing them as the centerpiece. We were impressed for sure! Everyone finally left and we finally got to have a turkey reward for being so good. Everything gets moved to the den when company comes. But by midnight tonight the last dishes were done and the refrigerator was as full as it has been since last Thanksgiving! Now the keeper is ours again, and so is the turkey.
The keeper added a Martha Stewart touch by filling tumblers with water and cranberries and f floating candles in them and placing them as the centerpiece. We were impressed for sure! Everyone finally left and we finally got to have a turkey reward for being so good. Everything gets moved to the den when company comes. But by midnight tonight the last dishes were done and the refrigerator was as full as it has been since last Thanksgiving! Now the keeper is ours again, and so is the turkey.
This is also Ginny's birthday, so we all say...!Feliz Cupleanos, Virginia!
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