Thanksgiving 2019

Here we go again... Last year, work was super busy before Thanksgiving.  This year, it was super busy, and I mean SUPER busy until the Saturday before.  I am so burned out.  I love what I do, so I can get super excited about projects still, but my body is tired of sitting.  I need to work less.  I'm working on it.  Okay, but that's not what this post is about.

I am so thankful that I made this post last year!  I could have spent time planning for Thanksgiving earlier this week.  I only worked 8 hours this week--I took much needed vacation!  Watched bad tv with Nick, built a catio (look at the other blog for more info soon), worked out (pilates, tap, and a new format workout class), started reading a book for fun, planned part of a talk for next week, and that's about it. 


Okay... here we go heading to the store with the help of our list from last year!  We're making not the extravagant tofu turkey this year, but we are doing our new fast version.  We're making stuffing but not stuffing the turkey. Last year, there was an unfortunate accident with the turkey made the first way.  Fortunately, no cat was harmed*, and we had turkey to eat. However, I decided it's not worth the difficulty to make the turkey first way.  We will have all the good stuff with the fast version, just none of the stress. 




*I dropped our "turkey" as I was pulling it out of the oven to baste it... it almost landed on Buddy.  It was a huge mess. Sigh. I couldn't even write about it last year. I don't think we got a picture of the moment.  It wasn't really a moment I want to remember. I am sure other people have dropped turkeys and had other tragedies on Thanksgiving. I did get over it and we ate. We feasted. We were thankful.

More soon and hopefully pictures!

Fall harvest

 

And now there are apples (tons) and way more persimmons and pomegranates.   Also basil.  We still are getting a ton and I'll make another huge batch of pesto soon.  (It freezes so well.)  And lemons and limes!  (Note, the cat wasn't harvested.)