PRACTICAL PARSIMONY: Happy Thanksgiving

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving

The meal is almost ready. I have done things for the last two weeks, but not much each day.

The menu:

turkey breast

cooked cranberry sauce

jelled in a can cranberry sauce

baked sweet potatoes

deviled eggs

giblet gravy with chopped boiled eggs

green bean casserole

2 Jello salads (Tommy hates bananas)

Wheat roll

I will make a pie someday.

I cannot wait for dinner!

The turkey breasts for $1.69/lb. were finally in the store this morning. So, we went out for that. Then, about 4 pm, I realized we had not bought milk for me. Tommy had plenty. We went out again. It was wild in Publix. The parking lot was packed. Tommy got milk for me because I knew there would be no electric cart for me.

We are exhausted. Oh, we went by the window at CVS pharmacy and bought Neosporin with pain relief. It is wonderful!

What is going on in your world?

9 comments:

kylieNovember 28, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to you both!
your food sounds excellent
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Cheryl KimbleyNovember 28, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Happy Thanksgiving to you and Tommy
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Ur-spoNovember 28, 2024 at 12:50 PM
I am thankful for having you as a friend. May I include in this Mr. Tommy? It feels like I know the fellow.
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SueNovember 28, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Glad the Neosporin + pain relief is working for you!

Happy Thanksgiving to you and Tommy, Linda! Your feast sounds splendid and I would be thrilled at a dinner with those choices.

We had our Thanksgiving brunch of scrambled eggs, bacon, waffles, and hash browns. A mimosa would have been wonderful; I must remember that for Xmas dinner.

At some point we'll heat up the Thanksgiving Dinner in a Box. I haven't even opened it up yet! I just hope the gravy is good. Good gravy can cover a multitude of sins. :^)
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Okay, hoping the annoyances have gone away.

The Cast

Fancy is my favorite hen. She is one of the three youngest hens I adopted. Because she is so gentle and friendly, she may be the one I rescued when she was being pecked to death after she could no longer stand. She got to live in the house in a box. Sometimes, I let her sit in my lap while she was convalescing. Now, she comes to sit in the swing with me, cuddling up to my body like a cat or dog. She died in February 2012.

Fancy follows me begging, complaining, needing me to do for her. She talks to me in various voices. She allows me to pick her up and carry her. When she became an adult, her head was a darker red and her body was light brown. Around her neck were tips of black feathers. It appeared she had a necklace of jet around her neck. When I showed this characteristic to a friend, he said, "Oh, you have fancy chickens and plain chickens."

Chessie has a broken toe. I broke it! She had a habit of jumping really high and almost sticking. A raccoon ate her in October 2009.

Thelma is the blonde. She is also the largest hen and the alpha hen. I suspect the gigantic eggs are from her. She often squats and presents herself to me. She is top hen, but I suspect she knows she had better be deferent to top feeder of the flock--me.

Louise is the auburn-feathered hen. She looks like the true Rhode Island Reds in pictures. She is almost as large as Thelma. Some days I suspect she is trying to be top chicken. When I got Pepper, I found out Louise is the Alpha hen.

Pepper came here from the same home as the first four. We were discussing putting red pepper on their food, wondering if it really would increase egg production. Pepper is the only name we agreed on. She is terrorized each day by Louise. Even after the worst was over, she was and is still filled with terror and very wary.

Linda is owned by four hens. They allow her to fetch for them. She loves them dearly, so she allows them to boss her around. Linda comes out in the rain to perform chores for them and make sure they have food and water. She begs scraps from all sorts of places to make sure they have fresh fruits and vegetables.

Parsimony is not a vegetable

Parsimony is extreme care in spending money. Stick around and learn about my random thoughts on accomplishing goals economically--dumpster diving aka safari, gleaning, do-it-yourself, sewing tips, recipes, and whatever is happening in my life.

Okay so maybe "parsimony" is not your thing. How about thrift, frugality or just plain saving money? I try not to go the tightwad route as that seems to imply others will suffer from my habits.

Some of my not-spending habits have very much been a part of my lifelong habits. Other habits are newly acquired and are an extension of my lifelong not-spending habits.

I am very imaginative when it comes to substituting or making instead of buying. I will tell you about making a heater for the chickens' water. Not one dime was spent since I had everything I needed right in my basement.

Practicality must rear its head alongside parsimony. For example, I will use the dryer in bad weather or because of allergies in the spring. But, I will not wash clothes in a tub as long as I have a washing machine or can find one.

You may hear more about my four Rhode Island Red hens than you care to hear. They lay delicious brown eggs.

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Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Happy Thanksgiving

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