I just got into my mail now and found it. I am so excited to try it. I love turkey but have dried them out some times. That recipe will be so full of flavor. I am thawing the breast out now and will make the turkey this weekend and let you know how it comes out. Thanks Chrissy.

The green bean casserole with mushroom soup and crispy onions has always shown up on Thanksgiving. Either I made it or someone bought it. I always made a big bowl of fresh steamed green beans and those always were eaten. I do not like the casserole or the sweet potatoes with too much sugar and marshmallows but always had them with Thanksgiving dinner for the people who enjoy them.

I love to organize and keep trying to justify buying a cricut to make fancy labels for organizing. I have used a label machine called the PTouch for probably 40 years and replaced it once or twice. They cost around $30-$50. I have lots of different colors of tapes for different projects.

A cricut is much more expensive but people make such beautiful artistic labels with them. I have a dream of running a home organizing business where I would go in and make people's closets, drawers, pantries, and refrigerators into attractivly organized and labeled masterlpieces.

Labels are the secret of organizing and keeping it organized. Without labels it is too easy to put things in the wrong place and then not be able to find them when they are needed. Everytime I go to put a cricut in my Amazon or craft store shopping cart, I talk myself out of it when I see the total with the machine and the supplies.

My favorite is cherry pie. I used to bake a lot of pies for Thanksgiving and some were cherry. After surgery I also would bake one cherry pie that was sugar-free. Giant Eagle here sells a cherry pie that I have to admit is just as good as mine. It is $20 a pie and seems like a lot but I will buy one for Thanksgiving.

Beautiul dress and that color is gorgeous on you.

Thanksgiving pizza has to be interesting. I am a fan of pizza with red sauce, ham and pineapple. Something no Italian would approve of.

Thanksgiving morning memories are tearing up bread for stuffing, frying celery and onions, putting the stuffing in the turkey, watching the cranberries pop.

The Thanksgiving parade with the wonderful floats, all the pies with real whipped cream. It was definitely the food holiday. We were Catholic and could not have Turkey on Friday. It was so tempting to cheat.

The week following we had turkey dishes every day until it was gone.

I will make turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce and eat it until I am tired off it.

I love traditions.

I should have known you would have a recipe. Please send it to me.

When I entertained a lot I had a stove with double oven. JB will love it, especially on holidays.

I never paid much attention to him after he left here. What a crazy life. Wild animals used to be pretty common in Ohio. They changed the laws about 10 years ago, but before that there were a lot of people with exotic animals in Ohio. Often they were pretty neglected, with fleas and other problems. Every once in a while, one would escape and usually end up being shot. People kept them in cages and sometimes got pretty careless.

In 2011 an exotic animal owner let 58 animals loose and then killed himself. The lions, tigers, bears, giraffes and wolves were all captured or killed in the next day. After that incident Ohio made some strict laws about keeping exotic animals.

I have been procrastinating on cleaning my office. When I am not working it tends to become a place to put things down and forget about them. Today is completely going to be for that project. My dream is to someday have nothing on my To Do list but don't believe that ever really happen.

For most of my life, meal planning has mostly been looking at resturant menus. Since the COVID lockdown, it has been Ubereats, Doordash, and Grubhub. I am working on changing that and doing more home cooking so I can control what goes into it. Also facing how much I really spend delivery charges, tips, and pretty inflated prices when you order meals online.

Yesterday I made a cabbage soup with ground beef, cabbage, tomatoes and onions. It turned out really watery and bland so I went online to see what to do with soup that is too thin. One sites suggested a roux. Something I never tried before. It is just heating up butter and stirring in flour. I gave it a shot and was amazed how much it helped the soup.

I have been watching cooking shows and trying to get my food to taste better and keep me more interested in preparing and eating meals. In the past, I would have ordered something delivered if my cooking disappointed me. I concentrated on work and other activities most of my life and cooking was a boring task. Now I have time to play with cooking and learn techniques. It is fun.

QOTD: Do you like to try cooking new foods or pretty much stick with the same items everyday?

I was self-employed for years and I had to make taking a vacation a priority. I made plans carefully ahead of time and committed to doing them just like another job. Not feeling well does suck the joy out of life. I have had different vitamin deficiencies that have really made me feel bad. I only take vitamin D if my blood count shows that it is low. There was a point where I was taking a lot of it. All of this becomes such a balancing act. Sometimes I feel fine and then the blood work shows problems. I hope you feel better and enjoy life more. Say hello to your kitties from their Aunt Mary.

I worked for EDS, the computer company run by Ross Perot. You got two weeks off starting the first year. You were required to take the two weeks off all together. He believed you needed the first week to get over the stress of work and the second to actually enjoy a vacation and relax. It was an additional week every five years. But the rule was one two-week vacation a year.

I see people who make their vacation really a stressful experience by doing things like working late the last day, driving for too long when tired and worrying about being late for a plane or other event. Now there are also cell phones and tablets and many people never disconnect from work for even a week. My vacations were always very flexible. When I travel with other people, I sometimes see them so stressful. Around here many people drive to Ocean City or Myrtle Beach. We all run into each other at the beach and the men often have conversations where they compete on who drove there the fastest.

It is amazing to me that someone I consider well educate, like a teacher, can be so stupid as to make a post like that. My sister worked in a bank and told me stories about teachers and their strange ideas about money. They would come in with their check and ask to cash the check and make a mortgage payment and a savings deposit. But they wanted the cash first and then count out the money for savings and the payment. They just could not comprehend that it could all be done at once.

A FEMA worker in Florida was fired for skipping homes with Trump signs. There is an old saying that common sense is not that common.

After surgery I bought a Magic Bullet and wore out three of them in the first two years. The Instant Pot is my go-to appliance now. I am old enough to remember a world before microwaves. When we got a microwave, I cooked everything in it and ruined a lot of meat dishes. It quickly became the coffee warmer.

The Instant Pot and the Air Fryer really do what we thought the microwave would do fifty some years ago. They have made cooking so much easier for the modern generation.

Hope everyone has a wonderful rest of the week.

You both look great. Marilyn's dress and hair are beautiful. I used to carry slippers in my purse for when my feet would get too sore from the heels. I have had broken heels but never had a shoe deteriorate. What a miserable thing to go through and she still looks so put togethe and happy.