38 thoughts on “Our Daily Thread 11-22-17”

  4. People seem to be slow at getting up this morning. No more comments since I first checked an hour or more ago.

    I would have liked to sleep longer, though. Night before last I was working on a deadline and didn’t get to bed till after 3:00 or to sleep till after 4:00, and last night I went to bed about 11:30 and thought I might make up some sleep. But at 7:00, after at least an hour of unsuccessful attempts at further sleep, I gave up and got up. Oh well.

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  6. I have been up since 5:30 or so. I always have my prayer/bible time, though, before anything else. I especially wanted to extra time today, since I will have my oldest daughter with her daughters and my youngest daughter and family here for a few days. It should be quite chaotic. I cannot wait to see them all, but especially the newest granddaughter, who has just started to smile. Her toddler sister will keep us all running, too. She will have lots of cousin admirers, however, to help. My heart will be full. My body will be tired. 🙂

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  7. I have been awake since 5am. I had to come into the office today for staff meeting. The Florida Highway Patrol is EVERYWHERE!!!!
    After that is over I will head home to cook and clean. Grandpa bought a “pack and play” yesterday at the consignment shop so I need to figure out where to stash it. The daughter in law’s dad and his girl friend are coming tomorrow. Her mother is deceased. I guess we will all survive.
    Cheryll, we are not having a veggie tray. They can eat what I cook and like it. 😉

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  8. Grandpa made a good purchase, Kim. We have one stashed and will need another, which my daughter will bring. Both are hers. Since she sold hers, these were purchased used, too.

    I will be baking pies shortly. Vegie tray will probably be next and then on to whatever else can be done before the hordes descend on us.

    Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

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  9. Good morning! I posted around 6 a.m. on yesterday’s thread that a 2 year old boy who was born without kidneys is suppose to receive one this morning. He goes by the name AJ. The surgery is happening about three miles from here at Egleston Children’s Hospital on the Emory campus.

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  10. Most of the roses on that bush by the eye doctor’s office have been killed by the cold weather, but that bud survived. I thought it was especially beautiful the way everything seemed arranged perfectly for a photo.

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  11. Morning all! I will be busy making pies, make ahead veggie and sweet potato casseroles…and jello..yes we are that family who has jello at the Thanksgiving table 😃!
    Quiche and waffles are setting on the breakfast bar waiting for our guests to descend from the upstairs for breakfast…and yogurt/fruit/juice/coffee….it is fun to have family visit….
    Have a blessed day…and don’t forget to smile along the way… ♥️

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  13. We won’t be cooking until tomorrow because our tasks our easy. My daughter will be making her fraternal grandmother’s sweet potatoes, I’ll make the apple/cranberry crisp and the green salad.

    Today we’re getting our hair done. I don’t particularly need it, but it’s fun to go with my daughter to the hairdresser–whose daughter went through school with mine. We laugh and tell stories and come home looking better.

    She’s off with friends tonight. One of her high school friends manages the bar at the upscale John Ash restaurant.

    The rest of the family dined at John Ash under the same friend’s eye the night before the fires–for our 40th wedding anniversary. My husband and I drove through what is now complete scorched rubble to get to John Ash that night.

    As we drove through those Fountaingrove streets lined with gorgeous view homes, I mused that while I didn’t want to live there, I’d still love a view. (I took you and BG there, Kim, to look over the sweep towards San Francisco when you were here).

    I’m really glad I didn’t live there now. Horrors.

    We have much to be thankful for this year.

    Adorable granddaughters stirring, Mr. Fit has just come in the door. Time to make breakfast!

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  15. I got to bed late last night as well, midnight I believe, so I ‘slept in’ until 6:45. Finishing up drying some laundry this morning before getting ready for work. The pressure is on to churn out as many stories as we for the weekend — Friday is hard because there’s no reaching anyone for a story, so we have to pre-interview anyone today so we can just write on Friday.

    I had lunch yesterday with one of the co-workers (in her early 50s) who took the buyout, she’s doing well & has been accepted (yay!) for UCLA’s condensed 5-month paralegal program that begins in January. So hopefully it will be on to a new, more secure career for her in 2018.

    Thanksgiving for me will be spent largely on the road, coming and going. I’m picking Carol up in Hollywood to bring her to a restaurant near me where there’s a modest gathering (should be 6-7 of us) for a no-muss, no fuss Thanksgiving lunch/dinner (our reservations are early). I’ll give her the drive-by (maybe quick stop-in) tour of my construction zone house and some other areas along the coast before heading back to Hollywood to drop her off. I hope to be back home before dark, but who knows.

    The man from her MS Lutheran church (which is too far for her to attend now) has graciously offered to take her by the Metro PCS store/office on Friday to see if they can take a look at her phone (this is the phone he bought for her this summer).

    Unfortunately, Carol seems to be having some of those paranoid episodes of late, convincing her that her phone has been hacked (by a boy who looked too closely at her phone when she was at the local drug store last month). She wants a new phone and probably will wind up buying one when she gets her pension fund back-payments, expected by Dec. 1. The man was disappointed when she told him she thought she needed to get a new phone and I’ve urged her not to do that — this phone is fine, and I’m hoping the phone office will be able somehow to reassure her that it has not been hacked. But I told the man from her church that in the end, Carol will do what she’s going to do, there’s little we can do to influence her when she gets these thoughts in her head. He thanked me for the information.

    She also canceled her debit card (to her account with all of 32 cents in it now) as she was afraid someone would steal her money when it comes in on Dec. 1.

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  17. I made dessert for tomorrow, today. 🙂 I got all my pans and pots and trays out already, got everything set up. So tomorrow I put the bird in, and go watch P’burg crush Easton, then come home, pop the pineapple stuffing and green beans in the oven and make the smashed tatoes. We should eat around 1:30ish. 🙂

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  18. Ten year old and I got a pecan pie into the oven, started the sweet potatoes, brought in select items from the pantry, got the turkey ready to put into the oven tomorrow, and did Saturday morning cleanup early. We will work on a pumpkin pie later, and dinner rolls. Fruit salad will be made tomorrow, along with Cheryl’s favorite (green bean salad with onions!) I was told I would not be doing any of the Thanksgiving prep this year but things changed this morning when husband decided the antibiotics did not kill whatever so he is headed back to the doc.

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  22. All the sides are done and in the refrigerator. I am going to sit down now and see if Jordan Fisher won Dancing With The Stars. Shhh. Don’t tell me. He is from Birmingham, was in the play Hamilton and is just about the cutest thing I have seen lately.

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  25. Here I am, all out of sync with the rest of the world. My big accomplishment for the day was getting the grass mowed which also means I got the leaves off the yard and mulched, too. I left one section where most but not all the leaves have fallen off a neighbor’s maple. I can wait until all the leaves drop. This may have been my last mowing of this year. I have ground turkey to cook tonight and may make chili. I have blue corn cchip, too. Now that is something different from the typical turkey leftovers. I am happy to visit Cracker Barrel tomorrow since my brother will have to work late tonight, and he will not have to fix for us tomorrow. I really enjoy fixing the meal myself and will do something later, probably when we see our son in a few weeks.

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  27. Good to hear that, Janice. Thanks for the update.

    As far as the Pigskin Picks thread goes, Anonymous is the AJ from this blog. 🙂 He is always first to post on that thread, and I see the time stamp is three minutes after the thread went up.

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  28. We have often done pre Thanksgiving so our growns could come and not inconvenience the inlaws. And for my dad and stepmom and brothers, same reason. It worked well for us for years. This is odd having Thanksgiving with most everybody else!

    But the rolls are kneading….

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  31. I’m out of sync, too, Janice, though my cat usually kneads every night. Did some phone interviews, started writing a story. Editor told us we could go home early (by 90 minutes), it was one of those Christmas Carol moments when we looked up at him, stunned, afraid really to take him up on it. …

    Just walked the dogs.

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  32. Whew, she got them done. The real challenge will be tomorrow when sixteen year old daughter does the turkey. It should be easy and a centerpiece so win win.

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  35. It’s past midnight in two US time zones, so I need to take myself to bed in the one in which it is past 1 a.m.

    But I think I can be the first to wish y’all “Happy Thanksgiving!”

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