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A thanksgiving proposal

I had a great time! Thanks to everyone for the great food and fun. Looking forward to more jref get togethers.
 
I'm sorry I couldn't make the party but I was too sick to go. You could count on one hand the number of lifetime events I really wished to attend and missed because I was ill -- but you could add this one. I woke up feeling lousy on Thursday, I took aspirin and relatives who hugged me when I arrived on Thanksgiving all wondered if it was raining out when it was just my fever breaking.

Today is the first day I have sat up and touched my computer since Thursday. I feel pretty well right now, but from Thursday until this afternoon I felt worse than lousy.

I had a psychic routine planned for the party. Next time ;)
 
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Tressa said:
That's it mumchup; lay the guilt on thick! ;)
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It worked! But on the wrong person... Hamradioguy always takes lots of pics; and he's a great photographer too! I never remember to take out my camera.....

Senex, if you stopped playing naked Volleyball and trick-or-treating in your Skyclad costume you wouldn't get sick so much :D
 
Thanks, everyone.

This is how I think of Thanksgiving.... bunch of friends of all stripes getting together and sharing good eats and good conversation. I had a period while raising my daughter when Thanksgiving became a nuclear and extended family thing. (Everyone wants to spend the holiday with the grand-kid/niece...)

But, prior to that, I used to always do what I referred to as "Orphans Thanksgiving". I've been working in German and Swiss-German owned companies for about thirty years, and there were always new arrivals who'd not quite figured out yet how big the holiday was. So I'd invite over as many as we could fit into the flat, and do the whole bit. After year one, they were on their own, but I reckoned I at least introduced them to pigging out, American style. Alas, I couldn't convert them to football! :spjimlad:

You've inspired me to get off my butt! I'm going to be in Thailand for Christmas (my girlfriend is doing classes in massage therapy and can't get more than a day off), and didn't feel like cramming a turkey into a busy work day over here, so I'm having Tweengiving ('tween Thanksgiving and Christmas) on the 9th.

Turkey (ordered - 12 kg... have to do Butterball, they travel well)
Oyster Stuffing
Lumpy Mashed Potatoes
Candied Yams
Cranberry Sauce (can't get fresh cranberries here - have to go with bottled)
Gravy (copious quantities - I'm a legendary saucier)
Mushrooms of all sorts (for the gravy, for a side dish, for a snack)
Whatever greens look good the day before (hopefully brussels sprouts, they're in season here)
Pumpkin Pie (for me)
Christmas Pudding (for the HK natives who love it)
Wine, Wine, Wine, Wine

Thus far, 1 Canadian, 1 French, 1 Turkmenistani, 2 Americans, 1 Mauritian, 1 Indian, 6 local HK Chinese.


You're all invited, of course.... it's the apartment with the light on! (Actually, those ARE the towers I live in - lower left foreground where you see a cluster of them, unfortunately they're pretty much in shadow, but I'm the guy waving from the window.)




Thanks again.... you could've filmed it in Aroma-rama, though! I can't decide if I'm more looking forward to eating the dinner in a couple of weeks, or to having the smells wafting through the flat for the day. There's nothing quite like that Thanksgiving aroma.
 
Sounds like you've got things under control over there, (Tweengiving... I like the sound of that)

Maybe Mattfn will post the video of the chile & pork tamale filling bubbling away on the stove. There's another of the birds enjoying their thanksgiving seeds in the backyard.
 
While these are indeed from my camera, I didn't take many of them. My camera got to stay and enjoy the festivities Friday day, while I had to twiddle my thumbs at work.

The bubbling cauldron (an action shot!):


The hard-working tamale cook:
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Some kind of Tasmanian Devil action disassembled those deep-fried turkeys!
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Of course, there was dessert:
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And many lovely beverages enjoyed.....for a long time!
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(For a PonderingTurtle, that fellow in back moves fast! He's in every shot!)

PT passes the blame to Paul here:
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Some kind fastest-quick-draw-to-the-web here ("Pay for your own (rule 10) cell phone!").
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Dr Buzzo declares victory, and claims a prize:
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Wowbagger.....disagrees!
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As for further pictures....well, let's just say I'm not allowing my phone to go unchaperoned to anymore NE Skeptics parties!
 
Your grade school teacher was trying to insist that what is common acceptance in one region is the same for all, which is not how it works, and never how a grade school teacher should teach. Both are used, and the ending e is more commonly used.

Besides, the cook says it that way, and THAT'S the person you agree with if you wish to eat!:p
 
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