Anyone else spending Thanksgiving alone at home ?
Well not exactly alone , my dog is here.
I even have a 15 pound turkey stuffed with chestnut stuffing to cook tomorrow.
We both will be eating turkey for a few days.
I was invited to my sisters but driving 5 hours one way for dinner didn't seem like a plan I wanted to follow.
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Would that scare them enough??? 
Been here since Aug. Leaving next month for Tn. 
here in New Mexico but ready to move on.
Several of the people who were here in the park have moved on to Arizona.
Seems too be the place to go in the winter.
I will check out your blog.
I have spent many Thanksgivings alone, tomorrow won't be one of them… will be with about 100+ seniors trying to explain to them that I don't eat turkey 
be eating Turkey, either. So you're not alone in that, handmade. Just wanted to let you know. Have a wonderful time.
The stuffing I don't feed him but I will give him a small slice of pumpkin pie .
If he could read, he'd be very flattered by your giving him that elegant name.
Have a wonderful dinner and enjoy the pie. Be sure to wrap the leftovers before you put them in the trash. Cats on diets have special powers and can get into anything man has made to keep them out. 
Your post just cracked me up.
makes the food go down easier 
Dogs are sometimes better companions than one's husband or wife, I know that from personal experience P
Sorry to hear about the fridge but that dinner sounds pretty good topped
off with some wine .
She was 15+ years old and had a good life.
I {heart} Mozart opera.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving, fadedrose.
I love opera.
Good luck with the fridge. At least you should be able to get some good deals tis weekend.
He was leaving a performance of a Ring opera (Wagner) in New York City. A journalist approached him, pen and notebook in hand, and asked him, "Mr. Clemons, how did you like the opera?"
Clemons' response was pure Mark Twain. "Wagner's music isn't as bad as it sounds."
(Probably apocryphal, but a good one.)
Here's one from "A Night at the Opera".
Driftwood (Groucho Marx): Is the opera over yet?
Doorman: Not yet, signor. In a few minutes.
Driftwood (to carriage driver): Hey you! I told you to slow that nag down. On account of you I almost heard the opera! Now then, once around the park and drive slowly.
The Marx brothers ruined "Il Trovatore" for me.
They were funny, creative and incisive.
My kitties are Figaro, Arabella and Faust.
The second best opera is Marriage of Figaro. Opera lover here too. Wagner only in small doses. Only opera I ever saw that I really hated was Elektra by Richard Strauss. Bunch of crazy screaming women.
I don't sing or play an instrument, but there's never been a time that I didn't love long hair music. The Met season on radio starts soon. Can hardly wait.
not a good thing for me. I love my fridge and all the food and drink it keeps cold 
good luck on finding a good one. I got an energy star last year and it's a treasure. Before that I had to rough it with the mini-fridge this studio came with. Torture!
Happy Thanksgiving, longship
Always nice to see you around. I always have an eye open for your insightful and heartfelt posts.
And a very happy Thanksgiving to you and yours as well.
There's a Lowe's nearby (15 miles) but I do not like to support national merchants when there's a local alternative. Out here in the country that's not always easy.
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours.
This is the 2nd Thanksgiving where I won't be making a nice dinner for my cat, but I stopped at the farmer's market on the way home, and will perform the rare act of cooking dinner vs heating it
My family is thousands of miles away, and I see my friends often enough as it is. Plus, I have to be at work at 7:30 Friday. Put it all together and I'm thankful to sleep in and enjoy a me-night.
Kitty laid down her burden in August of last year, so I won't be as creative with my meal-preparation, but I'll still be thankful. After all, I can sleep in tomorrow for as long as I want.
I may miss the creature, but I do love not being awakened at 6am
The most recent name was Quatro
food for a Week...is not a bad thing, imho.
There are times alone and times with company. There are good books to read or movies we missed to watch or just times for music and winding down that are all good, too.
Happy TG to You and your Dog and for making Good out of a "time out."
on your own Time!
Just us two here this year because of weather and spread out family which mucks up travel plans. We always manage to find some kind of fun...and I've been alone myself with many holidays...and it's not all so bad..because there's always something to dig into.
We just need to realize that Life these Days is not the "Hallmark Card" or Mainstream Media version of WHO WE ARE.. imho.
Please feel free.
I lived with an asshole man for years, and when I finally threw him out, I wouldn't bother with nice meals like I always had. Then I realized one day that I was worth it if he has been worth it. Now, I treat myself just as well.
Even if I do have to clean up all the mess just for me.
to work due to an unexpected plumbing crisis of a job he has to finish my Monday. So, I was bummed but a friend decided to day to drive all the way over here to this side of the Island after her Thanksgiving dinner and we'll have tea. So, I'm looking forward to the kindness of her gesture.. and forward to spending Christmas with my son.
My family is far away on the Mainland.. in fact one sister is spending Thanksgiving on Cape Cod and all my good friends are in upper state New York. So calls will have to do.
I'm vegan so my feast will be different.. but, I did get some fresh organic cranberries to make sauce I plan to put on some corn muffins.
Happiest of Thanksgivings mynaturalrights~Mahalo for your thread~
The fresh cranberries sound awfully good.
Won't be long
Christmas is just around the corner to share with your son.
Adopted him a few years ago from a rescue group.
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You have a wonderful day as well, fadedrose.
I take care of my aunt and she lives with me but hardly ever says anything unless she wants me to do something. So, I spend the rest of the time on holidays alone nowadays really.
Hope you have a good one and enjoy that turkey!
I would have been gone already if it hadn't been for the crummy weather in the Northeast. I'm leaving early in the morning. The company I work for closed at 1PM and we are off until Monday. Yippeee!!!
I like getting up on Thanksgiving morning putting on the TV, watching the Macy's parade, brewing coffee and helping out with the prepping of the meal. A lot of fun and laughter goes on while the meal is being made. This year I'll miss all that and get in time for the meal.
Oh, well.......
I wish everyone, alone, with family, with friends, surrounded by pets or any other combo; a happy and safe Thanksgiving.
Last year we had Sandy a couple of days before Halloween.
Oh well, it is what it is.
I hope that you had a lovely day.
with our dog. No luck in that post-doctoral job, so no money to go anywhere. Grateful that my youngest son is with me and that we still can live in the RV. It will get better and I am grateful for that too
it has been getting better but the progress is slow. . .ugh. Best wishes for a good recovery.
I too am staying home - thought that has become a tradition for me these last several years. Four hours on the road is too long to spend just to meet part of the family for a meal, and I have a lot of work to get done at home as well. I've learned to make myself a nice dinner, plan part of the day to watch a movie, and, get that sherpa throw around me for as many naps as I need. . .
our schedule for the day is "whenever"
I found a 7 lb turkey..
we will have yams & green beans & mashed potatoes/gravy
and an apple pie ...if I am in the mood to bake one later.
We will probably eat around 6 pm...or whenever
We share something. My mother was a pain at times too...
But why do they have to cook so many good things that make you feel sort of guilty for thinking it.
CHLOE enjoy smelling all the stuff Mom is making, so give'er a pass...
Lobo ate so much turkey today I think he's getting ready to sprout wings.
Right now he's sleeping by the stove very content as am I.
I had a great peaceful day.
I hope you and every member here did as well , no matter how they spent it.
was just two weeks short of 9 months. The woman who had fostered her since she was 8 weeks old asked me to please keep her name, though I wasn't crazy about having a pet named after a buffoon (Paris Hilton was at the peak of her fame at the time, which was in 2005). The foster lady was very nice, and she obviously found it hard to relinquish this precious kitty, so I agrred to keep the name--and I would not have felt right going back on the promise. Paris is a long-haired dilute calico (I call them pastel calicos). She'll be 9 December 1.
My daughter's fiance was a Frenchman, so I just told people she had been named after the city, not the heiress.
My 19-year-old kitty GABBY* had died just a month earlier, and I got Paris so LILA would not be alone when I left the house. On September 21, one month to the day after adopting Paris, I got a call from a friend who worked in the warehouse district in Topeka. A trucker had (thank goodness!) heard mewling from his engine block just before he turned the key in the ignition. He found the TINIEST little tortoiseshell kitten huddled there for warmth. Obviously she was from one of the feral cats that nest in the area. I figure her mom went hunting and never returned, so the baby had gone looking for her. The kitten was just 2.4 lbs when I took her to the vet the next day to be examined, cleared of parasites, etc. She had worms, fleas, and earmites, poor baby. I guessed her to be about 6 weeks, though small for her age because of malnourishment caused by parasites.
A week later, she was 5 lbs, a month later 7 lbs. Once she was able to derive nourishment from her food, she grew apace. As it turned out, she was at least 10 or 11 weeks when I got her, but tiny from malnourishment. She is now a gorgeous 13-lb tortoiseshell Maine Coon, my largest baby. (Maine Coons can get huge!) I think she'd be even larger were it not for her early malnourishment, which probably stunted her growth.
She has, among other markings, an orange right foot and ONE orange toe on her left hind foot. A perfect orange stripe bisects her nose, and the black and orange markings on her mouth alternate perfectly, so that her mouth looks like one of those pinwheel cookies.
I wanted to name her Tangerine because of the lovely shade of her orange, but it didn't sound quite right for her, so I modified it to the more feline appropriate TANGO, not even realizing at the moment that people would assume I'd named my cats after the film "Last Tango in Paris" (I didn't, of course, but it does reinforce the notion that Paris is named after the city). Tango was 8 in July.
About 3 and a half years ago, a friend's one-year-old unspayed tabby cat got out and got pregnant. I adopted one of the 4 kittens, whom I named LUCIA (pronounced "Loo-chee'-uh" . But I usually just call her LUCY. Lucy looks like a lynx-point Siamese (her pop was a neighborhood Siamese), but her siblings included a calico and two solid black kitties--and her mother was a tabby. I think her siblings had one or more different fathers. Lucy is the ONLY Siamese from the litter. Lila was 17 when I adopted Lucy, so I knew she wouldn't last many more years. In fact, she died at 18 a year after I adopted Lucy.
One of my 10 public websites, Pet Tales , is devoted to stories, mostly humorous, about the many animals I have kept company with--cats, dogs, ferrets, parrots, parakeets, snakes, lizards, and one baby alligator. I am a real animal lover. (BTW, most of my deaf articles are humorous, too, though intended to make a point about being deaf among hearing people, as well.)
http://www.pettales.homestead.com/index.html
If you like funny animal stories, you might enjoy reading some of the articles on that site.
The home page of each of my sites includes a list of links to my other 9 sites, and I write on a wide range of topics.
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*Gabby is featured in some articles on my "Pet Tales" site, and so is Lila.
One of my readers who had an online used bookstore and a Café Press site began to sell items with WWTD on them ("What Would Tina Do?" . The letters were also spelled out in Sign.
She told me that on every deaf/HoH message board she frequented, someone would comment about how they had been in a situation where a hearie had been obnoxious about their hearing impairment, but just as they started to withdraw* into themselves in response to the nastiness, they'd think to themselves, "How would Tina handle this situation? What would Tina do?"
That reminded her of those WWJD ("What Would Jesus Do?" bracelets, so she asked if she could sell mugs, T-shirts, andbumper stickers with the "WWTD" slogan on them.
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*Most people with hearing impairments become socially isolated, depressed and withdrawn because of the way hearing people ignore and exclude them in groups and act annoyed and exasperated about their difficulty with mush-mouth conversationalists.
I am no shrinking violet. I work VERY hard in conversation to avoid being a burden, but I also will not let people abuse me for being deaf. I have an article called "Deaf Power" on my site about how I handled a smart-alecky teenaged cashier who gave me crap at the grocery store.
Many of my deaf/HoH readers tell me that until they read the articles on my site, their bosses, co-workers, spouses, family members, etc., could never be made to understand how difficult they were making life for the hearing-impaired person. Somehow, reading me essays finally got through to them.
And, I'm fine with it. My family is on the other side of the country. I got to watch them play Chinese checkers via Skype earlier. Zzzzzzzzz. Just like if I'd been there...