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Let the Feast begin!
This is our Canadian Thanksgiving long weekend and we are lucky enough to be able to get together with our families and celebrate while still in this area. Today is part of Suzie's family and we helped Dennis and Sandy prep their house for the feast. One bone in ham was cooked and two large chickens on saturday. This morning I carved them all up and arranged in pans to reheat so no fuss later on.
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| two large chickens |
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chicken ready to reheat, with the gel from the roast
to keep it moist |
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| Ham ready to reheat too the same way |
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| tables set up, only 16 this year |
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| socializing |
Keeping the young ones busy until everyone arrives with the rest of the food. Homemade salads, deserts, dressing, homemade mustard. Supplied here was the meat, mashed taters, gravy turnip, corn, cheeses and dinner rolls.
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| tasty salads |
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| lots to eat |
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| oh so tasty |
Now this is really hard, but have to make room for desert, Suzie's mom made two pumpkin pies and a dutch apple pie with spelt flour, and Shelly a tasty apple crisp. We had fresh whipped cream and ice cream to go with that.
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| Heavenly deserts |
Now after this early afternoon's feast time to play with the young uns and chat.
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| Great Gramma (Suzie's Mom) playing dominoes with the twins |
Now outside to stretch walkabout, fresh air and exercise enjoying a nice mild fall day, with the leaves almost falling like snow flakes.
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| the colors are changing |
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lots of leaves down and more to come from
all these Maple trees |
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| Suzie kept the three girls busy on the swing set |
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| this young lady in the garden playing us a tune? |
Then we showed the girls our house and they wanted to watch "their" show, not sure what it was but the Simpsons kept them occupied for about three minutes. Then back outside to burn up more energy.
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| girls like our house |
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is this the Easter Bunny?
Maybe he will still be here in the spring. |
The was day one, of the festivities, tomorrow get together with my family in Kitchener and Waterloo, more food and less formal.
Glad you could drop by and hope you had enough to eat too. We are practicing for the American Thanksgiving when we should be around the Dallas/Fort Worth Texas Area.
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Like you said lots of food and you really don't want to hurt anybodies feelings by not having something they made.
ReplyDeletePlease don't say S@#w. There are some of us that might just see it before we leave like that Easter bunny wishing you were taking him south. Be Safe and Enjoy!
It's about time.
Ooops , I forgot and said that 4 letter S work. We don't want to see if but I am afraid you guys will.
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving! Glad you had a great day with the family. We had dinner with some family and friends and tomorrow we will be doing our dinner for both our families here at my Dad's place. First one with them for a few years.
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That will be sio nice for you after a few years.
DeleteLooks like a great meal and a fun day. Happy Thanksgiving!
ReplyDeleteThanks it was awesome!
DeleteWhat a nice day! Weather looks perfect, food looks yummy and smiles on everyone's faces!
ReplyDeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Enjoy round two today!
Lots of good times, we are ready to go again.
DeleteFabulous time with the family. Y'all sure know how to celebrate. I like the "homemade" whip cream the best!
ReplyDeleteYes all way good!
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Good to have one final get together before you hit the road.
ReplyDeleteThanks Contessa, and another get together today as well!
DeleteThat was certainly a ton of food for your Thanksgiving meal. Maybe you were lucky enough to have some leftovers you could freeze and munch on down the road. That's always a good part about Thanksgiving .. the leftovers!
ReplyDeleteLotsa leftovers and more today!
DeleteLooked like a great Thanksgiving, and so many delicious dishes to choose from. Like the pictures of all the fall leaves gives that Thanksgiving feel to everything. Enjoy day two of your Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteIt was really great day and lotsa fun.
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving. Wow - what a great looking meal. The fall colors are coming on fast now and look so pretty. Enjoy your family as much as you can before heading south.
ReplyDeleteThats what we are doing lotsa family stuff before we hit the road.
DeleteHappy Thanksgiving George to you and your entire family. It looks like you may have a great leftover dinner tonight - we will too. Have another awesome day!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rick, lotsa leftovers and everyday is Awesome!
DeleteHowdy George,
ReplyDeleteWas there enuff food??? You could have invited the neighborhood too, also !!!! Why do we have such 'special' days, enjoying each other ONLY ONCE A YEAR; of course y'all get to have an XTRA one in TEXAS !!! We'd let you have a THIRD ONE out here on the RunningStar Ranch, in Coleman county, ONLY 187 miles West of the POISONPLEX (D-FW)..
Hope y'all have another HAPPY DAY, Monday and a safe trip to the LMD (Land of Maniac Drivers), common sense ENDS at Weatherford !!!!
Hey Butterbean we always have way too much food, everybodty here loves leftovers.
DeleteMaybe we catch up with you on the road this winter.
Sounds like you had a wonderful Thanksgiving with plenty of good eating.
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