Holiday Weekend
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derekl_1963An excellent Thanksgiving and a long weekend to wrap up...
Thanksgiving Started preps (shopping) on the Saturday before and started making stocks and brining on Monday...
Spent most of the day itself in conversation, cooking, eating, and recovering. Chuck came over (as usual) and Matt and Laura joined us as well this year. When Matt saw the menu I'd posted on the whiteboard in the kitchen, he grabbed a marker and added "Friends and Family" to the menu - which all heartily agreed with. (Though the company present blurs the lines between them somewhat.)
Friday Yes, I actually went out and shopped on Black Friday - though mostly for stuff we need about the house. I've done most of my Christmas shopping already, either online or accumulating stuff throughout the year. Bought an air compressor and a wine refrigerator on sale and saved considerable money between the two. The balance of the day was spent continuing cleanup.
Saturday Back out shopping - this time with Brenda to look at some computer desks I spotted on Friday. Nice looking, with a couple of handy features, and pretty inexpensive.
But (and there is always a 'but'), no matter which way we arrange them... The computer room is six inches too small in any given dimension to fit three in here in any sort of an attractive and useful configuration. Worse yet, none of the configurations allow any significant amount of bookshelves to fit into here - it will all have to be wall shelves. I'm starting to think we made have made a significant (and expensive) error in putting the computer room/auxiliary library downstairs and the craft room upstairs.
Saturday also saw the latest installment in the Annual Debate between Brenda and I. She want to follow her families tradition and put Christmas decorations up just about as soon as the turkey cools. In my family, Christmas decorations went up fairly late because one of my brothers was born on the 14th of December.
Sunday Pure relaxation time at last. No errands, and only a little bit of housework to do. Brenda made cookies from a recipe my Mom gave here - "Gold Rush raisin cookies", and I quite spoiled my dinner with them. (I'll post the recipe in a bit.) In the evening we finally caught up on Heroes. (More on that after tonights episode.)
Thanksgiving Started preps (shopping) on the Saturday before and started making stocks and brining on Monday...
Spent most of the day itself in conversation, cooking, eating, and recovering. Chuck came over (as usual) and Matt and Laura joined us as well this year. When Matt saw the menu I'd posted on the whiteboard in the kitchen, he grabbed a marker and added "Friends and Family" to the menu - which all heartily agreed with. (Though the company present blurs the lines between them somewhat.)
Friday Yes, I actually went out and shopped on Black Friday - though mostly for stuff we need about the house. I've done most of my Christmas shopping already, either online or accumulating stuff throughout the year. Bought an air compressor and a wine refrigerator on sale and saved considerable money between the two. The balance of the day was spent continuing cleanup.
Saturday Back out shopping - this time with Brenda to look at some computer desks I spotted on Friday. Nice looking, with a couple of handy features, and pretty inexpensive.
But (and there is always a 'but'), no matter which way we arrange them... The computer room is six inches too small in any given dimension to fit three in here in any sort of an attractive and useful configuration. Worse yet, none of the configurations allow any significant amount of bookshelves to fit into here - it will all have to be wall shelves. I'm starting to think we made have made a significant (and expensive) error in putting the computer room/auxiliary library downstairs and the craft room upstairs.
Saturday also saw the latest installment in the Annual Debate between Brenda and I. She want to follow her families tradition and put Christmas decorations up just about as soon as the turkey cools. In my family, Christmas decorations went up fairly late because one of my brothers was born on the 14th of December.
Sunday Pure relaxation time at last. No errands, and only a little bit of housework to do. Brenda made cookies from a recipe my Mom gave here - "Gold Rush raisin cookies", and I quite spoiled my dinner with them. (I'll post the recipe in a bit.) In the evening we finally caught up on Heroes. (More on that after tonights episode.)
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Date: 2007-11-29 09:47 pm (UTC)and unless you've invited him, let her at least begin putting up a few.
I'm wishing I had brought my decorations. We will spend 1 day up in Norfolk, where my mum-in-law, the acknowledged worst cook of the family, will cook Christmas dinner at my brother in laws house. Then they will go off to his wife's family and we will have Christmas tea at mum-in-law's cottage. She won't allow me to bring anything for dinner. Maybe I can make something for tea. (dinner = lunch, and tea = supper)