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[JoanJ]

11-27
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I left out an F in my first post... FRUITCAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving was the day my grandma and mom would make the fruitcakes. They weren't the fruitcakes of jokes. Always eaten and enjoyed by whoever had them. She didn't use that candied stuff you see in the store. it was raisins, chopped apples, black walnuts, hickory nuts that we gathered from our farm, dried cherries and candied pineapple and orange peel that I got to do. I think there were other things too but they always said that the kitchen was a mess and may as well do the cakes now and get them soaking. I loved the smell of the rum they poured on before wrapping each in cloth and then foil before putting away to age for a month. We always left out the first piece for Santa. He ate it and always finished his milk.

 

[CountBoredom]

11/27 #2

During my single days, my roommate and I decided to do Thanksgiving dinner and give my mom a break. We didn't buy a turkey because my roommate's company was giving them to employees for free on the day before. But by the time my roommate got his bird, the smaller birds had already been taken: the smallest he could get was 21 pounds--and it was frozen solid. It was still mostly frozen the next morning, after a night of bathing.

We ate all of the side dishes as our meal that year--the turkey was finally fully cooked at about 10 that night.

 

[spacekitty]

#1 - 11/27

I missed a day somewhere, so I'm gonna have to go back and catch up later...

Just wanted to post this and wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving!!

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[spacekitty]

11-27
3

I left out an F in my first post... FRUITCAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanksgiving was the day my grandma and mom would make the fruitcakes. They weren't the fruitcakes of jokes. Always eaten and enjoyed by whoever had them. She didn't use that candied stuff you see in the store. it was raisins, chopped apples, black walnuts, hickory nuts that we gathered from our farm, dried cherries and candied pineapple and orange peel that I got to do. I think there were other things too but they always said that the kitchen was a mess and may as well do the cakes now and get them soaking. I loved the smell of the rum they poured on before wrapping each in cloth and then foil before putting away to age for a month. We always left out the first piece for Santa. He ate it and always finished his milk.

Poor fruitcakes have gotten a bad rap thru the years... LOL!!

My Mom made a pretty good fruitcake, too... minus the Rum!!
(but we have a great recipe for Rum Balls... )

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[spacekitty]

#2

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[spacekitty]

#3

And here's a song for all of us 'fruitcakes'...

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[super dave]

#1



HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

[WifeyCO]

11/27
#1
The first time I cooked a turkey, I didn't even know what a meat thermometer was and certainly did have one. Needless to say the when I tried to cut the turkey it was raw. We didn't eat until really late that day. It took me many years to get enough guts to try it again and have been a pro at it ever since.

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving ♥

 

[WifeyCO]

11/27
#2
Love Jazz and Louis Armstrong and Billie Holiday

 

[WifeyCO]

11/27
#3
I could listen to this all night, I might just do that. Ella Fitzgerald and Dinah Washington

 

[carrielsal]

#2

 

[100%VG]

11-27 (it's still before midnight here)
Entry #1

This is a shot of my grandmother's house, taken from a screen shot of Google Street View.

The house looks like it needs some repairs now. The last I saw it (quite a few years ago now), it was pristine. The lady who owned it (and raised her kids there) had taken meticulous care of it. I had written to her that year and told her in a 2-3 page letter about her house being the house I was born in. I asked if it would be OK for me to come and see the house again. She discussed it with one of hers sons, and he told her that I sounded like a kid who wanted to visit home. She agreed to let me see the house and I got to see the house a Christmastime.

I had always remembered the house as being really big, with high ceilings and all, but I thought that memory was just from being a little kid there (we were taken away from Montgomery when I was between 6 and 8). The house is really very big! It was so magical being in Montgomery again, especially at Christmas with all the Downtown decorations, and being in that house again at Christmas. As she showed me around, I told her what used to be where, who slept where, etc., and I was amazed at how much of it hadn't changed. The house used to be a dark brown on the outside, but as you can see, it's a Country Blue now. She closed off the fireplaces because she didn't like them, but they are still fully functional. She added Central Air and Heat, and made a lot of upgrades to the house, and it was beautiful. That was the most magical Christmas I've had since I was a kid.

 

[100%VG]

11-27
Entry #2


This is a Google image of Finley Curve in Montgomery. I'm posting this picture because I mentioned the large field across from the house where they sold Christmas Trees each year.

Finley Curve is on a hill with a downward slope from the top of this picture to the bottom. As a kid, I'd ride a skateboard made from a 2x4 and a metal roller skate nailed to the board. We road Little Red Wagons and all kinds of things down that hill. We started on Hampton at the top and rode down. Oh, I almost forgot to say... When I was there visiting the house, I could still see dings on the sidewalk from where I'd take a whole roll of caps for a toy pistol and bang them with a hammer. It was like I did it yesterday.

The Christmas Trees took up the lower third of the field, as if cut in pie sections. Like across from the House marker up to the center of the other side, by the pink/red strip. I was told that Christmas Trees aren't sold there anymore because a school uses the field for ball practice and training.

 

[100%VG]

11-27
Entry #3

We only had Black and White TV back in the late 50's, but here's a Classic for y'all.



"White Christmas" is an Irving Berlin song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the version sung by Bing Crosby is the best-selling single of all time, with estimated sales in excess of 50 million copies worldwide.

Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a frequent Hollywood retreat also favored by writer-producer Frank Capra, although the Arizona Biltmore also claims the song was written there. He often stayed up all night writing — he told his secretary, "Grab your pen and take down this song. I just wrote the best song I've ever written — heck, I just wrote the best song that anybody's ever written!"

 

[mac63]

11/28
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[mac63]

11/28
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[mac63]

11/28
#3

Couple of the scenes remind me of my younger days.

 

[smt09133]

1 of my favorite Christmas memories is decorating the Christmas tree. Every year, as a child and still now, we get out all the ornaments out and sort them of who's is who's and that person hangs them up. Our Christmas tree is all meaningful ornaments. We don't have 1 ornament on the tree that doesn't have meaning. It was a tradition my mom started when I was young. Every year you get an ornament that is special to you about something that happened to you over that past year. For example, this year my oldest son is getting a diploma ornament because he graduated. When the kids are younger they got a lot of ornaments that was of what they liked that year (we have a lot of SpongeBob & Scooby-Doo ornaments) this year my 2 younger boys are getting "The walking dead" ornaments. We even have a pickle and french fries on our tree! Also, every year I take a fine tip marker and mark their initials and year on it. Now when my kids are old enough and move out of the house they can take most of the ornaments and have them for their tree and let their kids see what they did and liked!

 

[kathi17]

11/27

TODAY...THANKSGIVING...

Yesterday my brother brought my nephew to my business and asked if he could leave him with me, hubby and our kid. As a super aunt I said of course. So my kid and nephew start playing...even my bug guy was there finishing up a preventive treatment.

Then I hear it...a horrible cough. Chest rattling, horse and hollow sound. I look at my nephew and ask him if he is sick...he says "yeah I've been really sick for a while now."

My brother comes back about an hour later on the phone and tells my nephew that they have to go and to get away from us (as somehow that would erase the last hour)...turns out that horrific cough is whooping cough. So my brother just causally says, "my bad, the doctor said you guys should call your doctor right away." So I call our doctor and he doesn't even want to see us...he called in prescriptions for my family and we are now on quarantine for 48 hours from first dose.

I had to call my bug guy and warn him as he has two little ones of his own. I then called my family to let them know we were not going to make it to Thanksgiving and warned them that if my brother shows up for Thanksgiving to kick him out so he doesn't contaminate the rest of them.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! I'm now going to make our thanksgiving pizza...

11/28

My Thanksgiving was sort of like yours. My husband was having agonizing chest pains, and there was no aspirin in the house. Living on an island, we also didn't have a store that was open to get any. He refused to go to the emergency room. I finally called his brother, but he couln't make him go to the ER either. Not a fun Thanksgiving. I was too scared to eat anything.

 

[JoanJ]

11-28
1

This is my favorite animated Christmas movie. Well this is the song from it, the movie is silent and about 30 minutes long but the journey it takes you on is amazing and you don't need voices. The kids would sit silent for the whole thing and some years wanted to watch it again