Well I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving!
It was just my sister, her boyfriend (soon to be husband I hope), my ds and my roommate so it was not a big thing and I did not use any fancy china or anything, but I did make my first turkey that I raised myself
as well as a pumpkin pie from scratch (came out ok, not enough spices) Gravy from the drippings (that came out great as did the turkey) and the usual fixings
The most fun was that DS had seen them make a cornucopia on TV to use as a center piece. He collected some of the squash we had grown and harvested along with our smallest pumpkins that we had grown as well and all I needed to do was get the actuall horn (cornucopia) part. Well it was not that easy as on Wed when I went to Michael's they did not have any. So I bought some plaster wrap and when we got home I made a frame out of some extra wire I had from the electric fence and we plastered it (like paper mache)
as ds painted it Thanksgiving morning. After drying it with the blow dryer we had our Cornucopia to use for years to come and start a new tradition. I am going to spray it with sealer today before I put it away in the attic.
as you can see he is very pleased. I tried to get him to collect more leaves but he only wanted the small red ones from my Jap. Maple and "no yellow leaves, only red!"
here is the freshly painted cornucopia
and then my ds next to it after putting it together
here is my turkey before the oven all stuffed with butter I raised about 15 of them to 8-14 lbs depending we used a 9 pounder
and here is the finished product
The turkey was nice and juicy and very good
This Christmas when the folks are visiting it will be a bigger fancier affair but this was perfect for us
And I am very thankful that we are all here to enjoy it and have our health
