November 26, 2009 – 11:33 am
The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement.
–Les Nessman
Maybe that’s what happens in Cincinnati; here in NoVA, our turkey is atop a bunch of charcoal and hickory chunks; the smoke wafts upward towards the cold, cloudy, gray sky, and blends in nicely.
Not exactly Over the River and Through the Woods, but good [...]
Thanks to the nuances of holiday scheduling, tomorrow is the paid holiday for this Independence Day weekend. Thanks to a balance of PTO1, I’m taking off July 6th.
4 for the 4th. Neat! Our usual trip to visit our West Virgina friends begins on Saturday, with the BBQ, beer swilling, fireworks shooting, and Indepencence Cake2. An [...]
December 31, 2008 – 6:02 pm
For several years now, my little bride and I, along with three other couples, meet on New Year’s Eve, for dinner and dancing. It’s pretty cool, I guess. Big Band kinda music, balloons, noisemakers, and the whole shittaree. BYOB – reminds me of my years in “dry” Kansas.
I like the [...]
December 25, 2008 – 3:51 pm
That would be roux. MLB and I do it from scratch. The effort has always paid off; we’re extremely careful with the whole process; man, that stuff is hot, and trips to the ER would put a major damper on the festivities.
We prepare what for us is now a traditional Christmas Day meal: shrimp [...]
December 23, 2008 – 9:03 pm
I love the Christmas season; by the church calendar, we’re still in Advent season, a time of preparation for the Miracle of the Birth of our Lord. Advent has nothing to do with the singing of Silent Night, The First Noel, and other Christmas carols. Some of the traditional Advent music is almost [...]
December 20, 2008 – 6:41 pm
MLB and I aren’t ones to charge up a storm, in good times or bad, for a bunch of flashy Christmas gift doo-dahs. Instead, we spend on items for household improvements1, charitable donations, and the like.
Nonetheless, there are little things that each of us likes, and we buy them as we see them. MLB is [...]
November 27, 2008 – 11:33 am
The turkey has been in our aging Brinkmann smoker since 09:41 EST. A cold, but not too windy day will help the smoking process, and make this year’s bird the best ever. Until next year, that is.
Happy Thanksgiving!
-k-
November 23, 2008 – 5:04 pm
One of my favorite weeks of the year looms on the horizon: Thanksgiving week. I’ve taken off the post T-day Friday for more than 25 years; at that time, I was an itinerant computer systems installer, and the PTDF was spent, ahem, doing paperwork, as official timesheets will show. Truth is, all the paperwork [...]
As is becoming our custom, my little bride and I spent the Fourth with our friends in West Virginia. The grilling was done just as the skies opened to a steady rain. So the party moved indoors, and didn’t miss a beat. After the serving of the Independence Cake1, most of the local [...]
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