Leftovers, Anyone?

Happy Thanksgiving, peeps!  Hope it was a good one.

Ours started with a Thanksgiving Meals on Wheels route, delivering hot meals and desserts to homebound seniors.  I'm hoping this will become a tradition.

We got home, finished up our own cooking, and spent the afternoon pigging out.  G even got to eat this year, which was a nice change.

We had an impressive, wide (for us) spread including turkey, meatloaf, mashed potatoes (knocked this one out of the park - turns out a stick of butter and half a carton of sour cream and heavy whipping cream will do that), stuffing, green bean casserole, dinner rolls (thank you, Sara Lee, for your crack-filled rolls).  All slathered in gravy and cranberry sauce.  And pie.  And pumpkin bread.

Not bad, if I do say so myself.

Green Bean Casserole: the unsung hero of the holidays.

You knew I was going to include a picture of this pie.

Honey Butter!  OMG who even needs a dinner roll to put it on?  Just eat this gooey deliciousness right out of the carton.

I'm not a fan of rushing through Thanksgiving in order to get to Christmas.  I don't like it that stores - I've been in them recently - put up Christmas stuff before they have even taken down the Halloween decorations.  A witch overlooking the nativity is just…creepy.

And I think it's a shame that stores are opening at 8:00 p.m. tonight in order to even get ahead of the Black Friday madness that starts at midnight.  Deals are great to get - but what about all those people who have to work?  It's complicated, I guess.

BUT BUT BUT - I'm all in favor, as a way to aid with the turkey digestion - of decorating for Christmas on Thanksgiving Day!

We got the new window coverings installed just in time to completely block them with the Christmas tree.

A little something for Lucy to chew on.

Now Lucy is scampering while G plays some monstrous game involving chain saws and aliens on the XBox.  I'm in my pj's about to attack a book.  I've been leisurely meandering through our latest one for Literary Society, thinking I had another week, and then I realized it's Tuesday night.  So, not so much with the leisure anymore.  On to the deep concentration, shh'ing G and all that.

And I must rest up.  Tomorrow is a full day of cabinet painting.  And rabbit chasing.