Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Hello!

Hopefully I will have some new photos to share with you after our family soire' on Thanksgiving. We are having it at my sisters. She asked me to bring bread, knowing that I do not cook as a rule. This year however I have the most perfect pumpkin! I want to save the pumpkin seeds and plant them in the spring to get more perfect pumpkins.

I got an excellent 'can't mess this up' recipe from the internet, and I'm willing to try. I just am sad about cutting into it. However, if I don't it will just rot, and I won't get any pumpkin seeds either. It's what a pumpkins 'born' to do! (Am I a softie or what, attached to a pumpkin?)

I will photograph the process and let you know how it turns out. I should have extra cooked pumpkin which I am told by the pumpkin cooking experts I can freeze and use for later, if I want more pies or if I want to make muffins. (This is all stuff I shouldn't eat!) The pumpkin pie though is the least of the things I shouldn't eat, so darnnet I'm making it and eating it. I just won't eat the crust...yuk, who eats it anyway? I'm making my crust using organic coconut paste, so it should be interesting how it turns out.

So, I shall amaze and astound family with my cooking prowess. (They just forget I can cook~ I just don't like to. There's a difference! I've hosted full turkey day meals with no issues cooking the big bird. It actually all came out fine. That was early when we were young and I was stupid! Lol Then my sister first decided to cook the bird, then her husband who likes to cook cooked the bird, then they started ordering it. I have to say, a catered bird is dry. They must make them all 'en masse and sit them around, waiting for pickup.

Seriously, if you want a wonderful Thanksgiving meal...go to Crackerbarrel. Excellent food. Consistently good turkey as well. I have no idea if it's been frozen and thawed, or if the entire thing is cooked in the back, which I suspect. Its good though, and no Turkey day burnt birds!!!

My brother's favorite holiday is Thanksgiving and I quote “because you get to eat, really eat!” lol. He is a stuffing addict. We could make up a bowl of stuffing and put it at his plate, he would be perfectly fine till time to fill it up again. As I am a recovering carbohydrate addict, stuffing is a lovely dream to me, and I pick at it, wanting to eat but knowing it will make me violently ill between the bread and it being so rich. See? This is the part of growing old that isn't fun! Not getting to eat till you explode! So for all of you that can eat stuffing till it comes out your ears, think of me while you are eating it! Lol.

Frax has always been such a dear during such festive gatherings. He is satisfied with his usual warm dog food, twice a day, and a crunchy bone (half of one!) in the evening. Milkbones are scattered throughout his day (the extra mini ones) I use the extra mini ones so he thinks he's really getting spoiled, but in fact they are nearly zero in calories. We have to keep Frax five pounds within 72lb one way or the other. This time of year, he seems to automatically push towards his upper limit of 77lb. I think half of it's his heavy fur coat. What do you think?

From Bill and Frax and I have a SAFE and Blessed Thanksgiving!

Later...

LV, JT & FX