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[Cowgirlgrace]

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At our house, the napkin goes under the fork on the left side.

Thank you! it's under the knike right now but I will change it. LOL, like anyone cares! except me.

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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One of my pet peeves is when they polar all the trees in the grocery store parking lots and where ever. It's a travesty! If they are going to do that why plant the trees in the first place! They are sooo ugly and the poor trees suffer, I'm sure, because they are never allowed to grow the way nature intended. Just a bunch of stumps with sticks. They should just have a bunch of shrubs.

Do you mean pollard? I was very amused when I noticed the Whomping Willow in the HP movies was pollarded. Not a job I'd want to do! Maybe that's why it's so mean.

Oh, I guess, potato potato. LOL. How do you write that? It sounds the same so it must be it. I've only heard it, not seen it spelled. I'm sure the trees are screaming and very unhappy. I would be mean too.

 

[Kaneke]

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Do you mean pollard? I was very amused when I noticed the Whomping Willow in the HP movies was pollarded. Not a job I'd want to do! Maybe that's why it's so mean.

I had to look it up but there is a bit of difference between pollarding, and TOPPING the trees, which is what they are doing to those parking lot trees

as the sites explained, pollarding is done more with young trees, as an aesthetic measure (often combined with pleaching), while topping is what we used to caution our "yard guy" against, when we told him "don't whack them off !! cut where we marked them, to thin them out"

we do need to take the highest growth off our Maui trees, since our cottage tenant has watered and fertilized them until they have grown up to block our view down into the valley; but there are ways to thin them out without giving them a buzz cut -- I'd do it myself but I no longer trust myself to climb trees with a chainsaw

 

[Cowgirlgrace]

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Or Moana! I love it. What a nice Thanksgiving you have! When we lived in Cali with family the pies were my job also. Now I have to do EVERYTHING!

 

[Kaneke]

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At our house, the napkin goes under the fork on the left side.

Thank you! it's under the knike right now but I will change it. LOL, like anyone cares! except me.

or you could pull the napkin partway through a napkin ring and put it several places around the plate -- I've seen it to the left of the forks, above the top of the plate, and on TOP of the plate itself

you don't have to have "official" napkin rings either, you can tie ribbons or twine in a circle, use rings from the jewelry box, or pull that napkin through anything with a hole in it, that you would allow on a dining table ---

 

[debbie_nibbles]

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Is there a reason to do this? Should they be dry?

 

[hallerlake]

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Do you mean pollard? I was very amused when I noticed the Whomping Willow in the HP movies was pollarded. Not a job I'd want to do! Maybe that's why it's so mean.

I had to look it up but there is a bit of difference between pollarding, and TOPPING the trees, which is what they are doing to those parking lot trees

as the sites explained, pollarding is done more with young trees, as an aesthetic measure (often combined with pleaching), while topping is what we used to caution our "yard guy" against, when we told him "don't whack them off !! cut where we marked them, to thin them out"

we do need to take the highest growth off our Maui trees, since our cottage tenant has watered and fertilized them until they have grown up to block our view down into the valley; but there are ways to thin them out without giving them a buzz cut -- I'd do it myself but I no longer trust myself to climb trees with a chainsaw

Topping should be a crime. If a tree needs to be topped, it should just be taken out, and replaced with something more suitable.

 

[Ogress]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING !!!


Turkey is in the oven. DS ate so much of the stuffing when I left it on the counter to cool yesterday that there was exactly enough left to stuff the 12 pound bird. (It is bigger than I thought, last year I bought a 7 pound turkey). He usually hates stuffing, but he ate more than half of a HUGE batch. Cranberry sauce has been made, carmel apple pie and 2 pumpkin pies just pulled out of the oven, brussel sprouts (ewwww) are cleaned, trimmed and ready to cook; yams are ready to go in the oven, kids are peeling the potatoes (the sole contribution from my family), gravy is made, cider is cooling in the fridge, just need to do the salad and the rolls. I'm wishing I had not shooed everyone away when I thought the oven would not be repaired in time. That is an awful lot of food for 4 people.

Dinner is at 5 if anyone wants to join us. Buffet style so I don't have to mess with setting a table.

 

[hallerlake]

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Do you mean pollard? I was very amused when I noticed the Whomping Willow in the HP movies was pollarded. Not a job I'd want to do! Maybe that's why it's so mean.

I had to look it up but there is a bit of difference between pollarding, and TOPPING the trees, which is what they are doing to those parking lot trees

as the sites explained, pollarding is done more with young trees, as an aesthetic measure (often combined with pleaching), while topping is what we used to caution our "yard guy" against, when we told him "don't whack them off !! cut where we marked them, to thin them out"

we do need to take the highest growth off our Maui trees, since our cottage tenant has watered and fertilized them until they have grown up to block our view down into the valley; but there are ways to thin them out without giving them a buzz cut -- I'd do it myself but I no longer trust myself to climb trees with a chainsaw

This is an example of a pollarded tree. It looks just like the Whomping Willow.

 

[Ogress]

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yes, oddly enough, the plain white Corelle plates look fancy enough for most any festive occasion -- they aren't far off bone china, visually ! especially if you have elegant place mats or tablecloth and runner ..

congratulations for being so organized

I hated having to cook Thanksgiving dinners; was glad when the boys preferred to go to their dad's for Thanksgiving; then I could get a nice smoked turkey breast for the two of us, make up just enough side dishes out of what we had in the pantry, and scrounge the pies from the grocery store, since my piecrust always falls apart

A bird big enough for a dozen or more people ties up the oven for five or six hours. Anything else that cooks in the oven has to be done before hand. I could get up early to do them, but I'm not a morning person.

That is what we have - the cheapest dishes available at the outlet mall in town. I am so glad they are completely plain and not the Corelle with the ugly mustard-yellow pattern around the edge we had when I was a kid.