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[MROO]

Pie season can be anytime. Bake your own.

Spoken by The Expert! I wish more people realized how easy pies are ... actually easier than cakes,once you get the han of the crust ... and usually less messy to make, too!

 

[SnapdragonQ]

I heard that LA has already cancelled Trick or Treating. Anyone else?

My area too.

 

[R2elk]

Spoken by The Expert! I wish more people realized how easy pies are ... actually easier than cakes,once you get the hang of the crust ... and usually less messy to make, too!

Cakes are easy to make too. I know not what mess you speak of once the mixing bowl is licked clean.

Refrigerating the dough and rolling it out between saran wrap or in a plastic bag can make crust making easier.

 

[R2elk]

"Monday's child is fair of face."

"Fair has the meaning: beautiful, but also auspicious and fortunate. So, Monday's child, in a fortune-telling sense, means that Monday's child is not only beautiful, but promises good things and a fortunate life"

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Which is why I do NOT have a smart phone, iphone, whatever. I have a basic, old-style flip phone without even a keypad - just the old telephone number/letters. When people (especially the HS kids I work with) laugh at my phone, I ask them what their (or their parents') phone bill runs. Then I tell 'em what I pay a month, including all the "extras" like taxes & fees. My $35 bill shuts 'em right up!

I resisted smart phones for as long as I could, but texting was something I needed for business. My bill is the same and I do have a smart phone now, but it was well under $100, is all mine, and does all the fancy things I ever need a smart phone to do.
Including irritating the snot out of me when it's smarter and cops a 'tude.

 

[ShrekDawg]

We do a BIG Thanksgiving at The Farm ... but my sister's worried about the crowd, this year. My son suggested a socially distanced "Drive-by" Thanksgiving Dinner. We all laughed SO HARD at the visuals that conjured up ...

"Go long ... no, longer ... it'll give the gravy a chance to drip, first."
"No, Uncle John, put the window down further and I'll try again."
"Aim higher next time. The cranberry sauce goes next to the turkey, not in the PEAS!"
"Okay, which of these smudges is sweet potatoes and which one is Baba's pumpkin pie?"
"Or the worst - But I don't have room for dessert ... the window is FULL!"

OMG

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Cakes are easy to make too. I know not what mess you speak of once the mixing bowl is licked clean.

Refrigerating the dough and rolling it out between saran wrap or in a plastic bag can make crust making easier.

Right? There is no such things as a mess when batter or frosting is involved!

 

[MROO]

Although actually I don’t think there’s ever been 20 pies even at Thanksgiving. it’s usually like 5 at most lol but still.

You've never been to a Thanksgiving in my family ... Growing up, my parents hosted it for the whole extended family and it was like a reunion. We didn't start counting until I was in my teens and the family was starting to dwindle. Our high point was 128. Not all at once, but throughout the day. The most we had at once, that year, as near as we could figure, was 68. There was always a football game going on out back, a volleyball or bocce game out front and a pile of kids in the barn playing with the goats and petting the horses and rabbits.
Sigh - those days are long gone, and not just beasue of Covid. As the older folks have moved on, the youngsters have spread out and don't all come "home" for Thanksgiving, anymore. Last year, we had over 40 at the farm, and that felt almost like the "old times" ... almost. I wish, just once, that my children could experience one of those amazing Holidays we shared when I was a kid. And as we share stories around the table each year, so do they.

 

[Kiki]

WTH @Kiki??

Why am I on your list?

And really Moony?!

You said I couldn't beat Kathy.




Im already forgetting you said it so I'll remove you from the cacalist.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

You've never been to a Thanksgiving in my family ... Growing up, my parents hosted it for the whole extended family and it was like a reunion. We didn't start counting until I was in my teens and the family was starting to dwindle. Our high point was 128. Not all at once, but throughout the day. The most we had at once, that year, as near as we could figure, was 68. There was always a football game going on out back, a volleyball or bocce game out front and a pile of kids in the barn playing with the goats and petting the horses and rabbits.
Sigh - those days are long gone, and not just beasue of Covid. As the older folks have moved on, the youngsters have spread out and don't all come "home" for Thanksgiving, anymore. Last year, we had over 40 at the farm, and that felt almost like the "old times" ... almost. I wish, just once, that my children could experience one of those amazing Holidays we shared when I was a kid. And as we share stories around the table each year, so do they.

128 People?
Or 128 pies??