Yes yes yes. No excuse indeed for where you live. I wasn't able to this year, but in the spring I am SO planting a garden.

If I have one in our new house, it will have to be in a gardening box or planter. The new house is on the side of a mountain made of rock. We don't even have grass to mow, just a few weeds around the fringes of the property. I want to make a retaining wall and put some topsoil so I can have some landscaping plants around my front yard.

Khajiit would like an herb and hot pepper garden.

I've grown veggies, berries, had apple, peach, and pear trees - and done some nice landscaping.

Ooh an apple tree would be nice too! Cider!

I make Apple Cobbler = Mmmmm!

When in lived in London, my neighbour had a cherry tree. Because of the direction of the sun, all the fruit grew on the branches that overhung our garden. We gave them some of our pears, to make up for it.

Nice, really like those kind of exchanges between neighbors! In Germany our landlady had a cherry tree; and she made homemade brandy with it that would knock your socks off in a few sips, lol.

Tasty!


One year we discovered we had a blueberry bush in a plot right up against our house. A hurricane that had downgraded to a strong tropical storm was approaching so we were placing the lawn furniture up against the house so they wouldn't fly into it. We found the bush then and were frantically picking blueberries before the storm hit. We gave none of them to the neighbors, lol

Dis
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That's fowl!

How punny:P.

Just got back from T-day lunch with my bro. The food was better than expected . . . except for its price. I had both ham and turkey, mashed potatoes with brown gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce and what looked to be some sort of black-eye pea with bacon concoction . . . the usual suspects. Started out with a salad bowl. I've never figured out why salad at these buffet restaurants tastes so much better than those I make at home, considering their ingredients are not overly dissimilar. This will in all likelihood be my only traditional meat & potatoes meal of the year, as has been the case a good many years. As is our practice we arrived a good 20min before the joint opened, which proved a good thing. With its only direct competition having shut down early this year the place was packed. When we left tons of folk were waiting for tables, and the entry line was way out in the parking lot.

No supper for me tonight expect for an apple and a glass of water, and my evening meds and inhaler treatment.

Glad you got to enjoy it! Happy thanksgiving!

The food doesn't look bad, but ... what is that plate you are eating out of? I see toddlers running around eating out of plates like that,







Your meal sounds delish! Happy Thanksgiving!







Bwaahaa! We grew blueberries; blackberries; and raspberries for years; but between neighbors and deer it was a tough fight to get enough into the house for our own use. They were supposed to be a source of income, but never quite made it that far.

Neighbors would steal your berries??

Yes. We offered them each 1 quart free, but they were supposed to buy any more than that they wanted. We caught them out there every year with buckets in the night. One lady had a houseful of friends helping her fill buckets, like they were hers to give away. I seriously considered turning my dog loose on them, lol.

Turkey feast yesterday, ham feast today. Kids are working both days so our dinners have been lunches. And pie for breakfast, of course!

That's nuts. People never cease to amaze Khajiit with their foolishness.

Ditto.

Roasted chestnuts.
I bought a bag because I enjoyed the concept of having a bag of roasted chestnuts. But in reality I've had like 4, as they are really filling...

Just made/eat some cheesy italian shells hamburger helper, I added some sour cream to the mix and it was delish.

Khajiit likes Hamburger helper! Also Tuna Helper!

I made a second round of turkey soup tonight, and by the time I got home there was a mini bowl of it sitting all alone on the stove. Big empty pot is in the sink. It turned out pretty tasty!

Yes! One of the best things about Thanksgiving is all the stuff you can make out of the turkey leftovers! Khajiit is planning on doing a turkey and smoked sausage jambalaya on Thursday!

Drinking another two fingers of Laphroaig's while exploring Ebonheart.

Did you know there's a brothel inside The Ebony Flask? Certain NPC's in a single kind of costume carrying on all kinds of suggestive activities.

Nothing explicit, of course. But if you know the things I know, *ahem* you know what goes on there!

And no, I doubt it's the Laphroaig talking . . .

Oh, and ghastley, this one's for you . . .

Boiled the turkey corpse yesterday and made some righteous turkey stock! About to go to the grocery and get a red onion, green bell pepper, a couple of serranos, smoked sausage, brown rice, and some beer!

Coffee!

Iced Mocha! Lol

That sounds better, but it's a bit cold for that!

Finished my last ration of pumpkin pie today.

At breakfast with coffee - in honor of Grits.

Not here it isn't

Ah, I forget Elswyr is hot and dry. I'm in more of a Cyrodiil climate.

Lol, exactly

This turkey and smoked sausage jambalaya might be some of the best Khajiit has ever made! Made himself miserable with over eating!

Aw,

Oh don't feel bad for Khajiit. He was greedy!

Perfect! My favorite of the day's three most important pie meals.

Mmmmm! Sounds Awesome!

It was! Turkey and smoked sausage jambalaya! Left overs were gone as of yesterday!

What a great innovative use of the turkey leftovers!

Khajiit appreciates you saying so! (Khajiit cooking is just fine despite what that dirty Argonian in Leyawin says, don't listen to him!)

Still have a fair amount of turkey meat left so this one figures he'll be eating some sandwiches next week, lol

Hoegaarden with a lemon wedge! This beer just tastes like Christmas to Khajiit for some reason, lol

Coffee and pumpkin pie breakfast!

Ditto! I'm on day two of the '8 days of pumpkin pie.'

Had Christmas Day lunch with my bro at a local Oriental all-you-can-eat buffet restaurant. Boy did I take advantage of "all-you-can-eat." Started out with a salad plate, then had a plate piled high with ersatz Oriental cuisine, and topped it off with a smaller plate of ham and taters. That last plate done me in. I'd barely made a dent in it when my stomach announced it had had enough. I manfully struggled on and managed to empty my plate. No dessert. I haven't eaten dessert food in a great many years. I'm normally not even tempted, but boy o boy did the large bowl overflowing with fancy ice cream my bro had look yummy!

Gotta admit that while the restaurant we ate at has better quality oriental cuisine ingredients and a bit more variety that their one local competitor, their ersatz Chinese offerings all tend to be a bit too sweet for my taste. That other place's entrees are less sweet with a tad more spicy-hot kick, which is more to my liking. Don't take me wrong. I liked everything we had yesterday. It's just not my ideal (as if I'm gonna find that in my neck of the woods).

I was so stuffed that I could eat only one-half an apple for supper. (I had planned to eating the whole apple. It was to be my entire meal. That and a glass of water. I'd have happily done without entirely, but am required to take my evening migraine preventative dosage with food (or milk, which I'm low on).

Had my normal lite breakfast this morning; banana, 100% whole grain wheat bread toasted with ersatz butter and sugar-free strawberry preserves (along with my morning migraine preventative dosage, a multi-vitamin and several very-likely-worthless herbal supplements), milk. Simple as it is, this is often my favorite meal of the day. Not this morning. Still too bloated from yesterday. I didn't mind consuming it. It just wasn't fun.

Will prolly eat a WowButter sammich with a small amount of milk for lunch (I'll have been to the grocery store by then) and salad with water for supper.

Bold: I can picture this whole scene the way you have written it!


Mine was: Ham, home canned green beans, broccoli casserole, sweet potato casserole (that I thought was the best I ever tasted till I found out the apple dessert had somehow become mixed in with it on my plate) and chocolate cake.

That was also my breakfast this morning = leftovers, lol.

Since it was nearly 80 degrees Fahrenheit yesterday, we cooked steaks on the grill!

We got just under 70 degrees - and sunny!

You had good steak weather too! Man, there's just something about a nice chunk of bloody beef grilled over charcoal!