Tuesday, December 2. 2008
You know you are in an airport when a bottled water and a yogurt cup costs 8 bucks. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We had a pretty good one, as usual. The highlights were: - The cabin. I love going to J&D's cabin at this time of year. located on the southern slope of the Sierra Buttes, you get some pretty good views of the valley through the trees, and the opposing ridge line. The weather was really great, and we were surrounded by fall color. No, Jeremy, I didn't get to go for a hike at Love Falls this time, so no bear sightings.
- The meal. Yes, its about the food. I brined the turkey, as usual, and it turned out really great. All the fixings were good, too. And Dorothy is so comfortable with me cooking in her kitchen now that she took a nap. You shoulda been there the first year...you woulda thought that I was going to somehow wreak mass destruction. the thing is, I pretty much did. I started the turkey really early (it was stuffed, so stuffed birds take longer), and because of it's massive size, it was hanging off the back end of the pan. So, fat dripped onto the stove bottom, the kitchen smoked up and the fire alarm went off. At 5:30 a.m. EVERYBODY got up, and I had to pull the bird out and Dorothy poured salt on the drippings, which stopped the billowing waves of smoke. Also, since this was much earlier in my cooking career, I made a HUGE mess in the kitchen, and Teresa expended much effort cleaning up after me. So, you can't really blame her. It tasted really good, but the aftermath was impressive, to say the least. I've gotten better, but the smoke alarm still goes off every year...
- Satellite TV. The reason that this is a highlight is that it was a huge fiasco. Personally, I could have cared less, but Jack was pretty adamant about having working TV. He brought his receiver from home, which expects two inputs. The cabin dish only has one output. So, I spent a significant amount of time moving the one input back and forth, because it would only sync the guide on input one, but only display actual TV on input two. And each switch back and forth was a 10 minute affair. And figuring out that this was the procedure was a one hour affair upon arrival. I love ya, Jack, but this wasn't my favorite part.
- My mom. She came up with us, so it was nice having her.
- Rick. It's always cool to see Teresa's big brother. I feel like we would be closer if we lived closer...he's a pretty neat guy.
That's it for now. I need to finish my 5 dollar yogurt and hop on a plane. Peace.
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