Thanksgiving Adventures and Misadventures

I will remember this Thanksgiving as the one in which many things broke! I noticed my car was driving funny, and noticed while it was parked on Tuesday before Thanksgiving that it looked like a tire was getting very flat. What to do? On Wednesday morning I got up at 6 AM and was at my service center at 7 AM. It turned out that that two tires had bead leaks and basically needed also to be replaced. I got them both temporarily fixed and came home to work and try to get ready for Thanksgiving. I decided to put together a salad, composed of cranberries and pineapple with some gelatin to hold it all together. It never made to the refrigerator; instead it went crashing down on the floor.

As can be seen, I had quite a mess. And the book on the floor? It is a library book, rather damaged, and that cost me $27.00 yesterday.

I cleaned up the floor the best I could and used some wet Swifters to clean up the floor more. Then I wandered out into a snow storm to pick up my older daughter and then deliver clean laundry back to my other daughter's family. I was glad to get home and glad to have tires in better shape for driving on such roads.

I came home and got out the scrub bucket and cleaned up the floor more. Cleaning up this mess is rather like cleaning up Easter grass. It ends up everywhere. I still keep seeing drops of this mess on places like cupboards. Since I had made a half recipe of the salad, I did it again. Also put together a strata for breakfast the next morning. Well, that didn't work either.

Up early on Thanksgiving morning to make pies and other preparations for a Thanksgiving meal. Thankfully the weather was much better than forecast.

I took the strata out of the refrigerator and noticed the eggs had leaked out of the pan into the salad. So that salad went into the garbage, too.

We had a nice breakfast and then started cooking the turkey. Pictures, too. No matter what we did we never got every one in the picture at the same time. This one shows my grandchildren and older daughter with me. My younger daughter got squeezed out of the image.

We enjoyed the Macy's parade on TV. This is Nilima enjoying the Sponge Bob balloon, her current TV interest.

On Friday I took my older daughter to meet the rest of the family to go shopping. I came home for a bit and then took off for the Black Friday service at my church. I got distracted by the low sunlight coming in a garage window and took the turn too short and scraped up a fender on my car on a post. And of course, this was on the side that had never before been hit. (The driver side has been hit by other people two times; this is the first bang-o I've put into the car.)

Elena had a great shopping trip, home with a new winter coat, which she definitely needed.

We settled down on Saturday to watch the Minnesota-Iowa football game, and it didn't turn out right. I may live in Minnesota, but I'm a University of Iowa graduate. Why did Minnesota have to pick this game to be the first one this season to win at home?

Somewhere along here the dishwasher began to misbehave. The sound totally changed, and I was having problems getting the water to drain out. Today we finally verified that the pump is not working. Sometime in the next two days this is supposed to be repaired. So we had a lovely family day, but oh, how many things decided to break!