Back From Dinner

Well, hey. Oddly enough, we're back and not dead -- not even slightly injured. I do NOT know how this happens -- there's that thing with the plane, which is like, you know, heavy and up in the air, and then there's all those pieces of things -- including a loaf of bread -- but we didn't lose anything, and even the child came back with us, though he's apparently reached an age which requires him to wander off and examine maps. So I have to keep a sharp eye out for maps, cause that's where he is.

Rachael, I'm glad to report, is just as delightful and interesting in person as she is in writing. Lovely.

And Thanksgiving dinner was -- well, it was THE most Thanksgiving dinner I've ever seen. It involved quantities of butter, bacon fat, and Crisco. I believe that there may have been some olive oil used at one point, but I'm not sure.

Here's what we had: Appetizers: a cheese-and-butter spread; an artichoke-and mayonnaise spread; and curried nuts (with butter). Dinner: Turkey, basted with bacon. Cornbread-and-pecan stuffing, with bacon grease. Sweet-potato casserole, with butter. Sweet-potato biscuits (with honey butter). Beans (with nuts and butter). Gravy. Cranberries -- I believe that no fat products were put into the cranberries, but I could be wrong. Dessert: Mocha-pecan pie; pumpkin meringue pie, and pumpkin pie made with Nutrasweet.

It was really quite impressive.

I'm still recovering.

And I'm eying that NordicTrack in the corner.