Well! I wrote a post about our leftovers but when I came back it wasn't here. Figure I forgot to hit post. Anyway, we even had leftovers today though the turkey is getting a bit dry. My favorite leftover is something I picked up from my dad. Hot turkey, gravy and dressing on sourdough sandwich. I spent most of Wednesday canning 16 pints of meat and 7 quarts of broth. We simply don't have enough freezer space. I can see your lights when I zoom in. It all looks nice. We are leaving for Seattle in 2 weeks so we only put up our little fake tree and about half of my usual decorations.
Now, to me, a truly proper hot turkey sandwich is just turkey, bread, and a slightly peppery yellow gravy. Like the one the French Market (the NOS restaurant, not the shopping and dining area in NOLA) used to serve. Alas, it's almost extinct. Especially the yellow gravy.
The Advent wreath, BTW, is 100% solar powered (you may recall that from when I was building it, back in January, February, and March), to avoid having to run power across the front yard. And it's designed to display the liturgically-correct number of flames.
Oh yeah, that is really cool. Our party went well last night. The weather cooperated and the rain held off so we didn't have to send guests home with adobe caked tires. The Georgia race was called right after we finished dinner so we broke out both Champagne and Martinelli's to toast our full majority (as well as not having a brain injured buffoon in our highest legislative branch). Now we just have to worry about being able to get over the passes next week. Could be lots of snow.
We've had some weather we have. Our canvas shed relocated next door. The square is where it was; the arrow points to the tree it settled under. A river ran through it.
Not to mention boards. They can wander off, too. Thanks, whoever noticed so quickly that this one was down, and was able to get it back up so quickly.
The weather really smiled on us Wednesday and Thursday. Though we woke up to our car iced over yesterday morning. Still, the sun was shining on the Oregon coast. My friend's new little house is almost finished. By this summer we will be able to stay there instead of a hotel. It was nice to see the snow on the mountains. Shasta was totally bare when passed through in June.
Awesome. Our daughter's tree and house. More snow last night and an ice storm on the way. (I don't mind so much as long as I am inside with the fire.)
If she's interested in how I get perfectly straight, perfectly spaced "architectural" light strings, it's very simple: they're permanently mounted on lengths of molding (plastic, not wood: less likely to crack), painted to match whatever they're mounted on. It's 100% LED. The Advent wreath is solar (I've said this before); everything else is powered through a single switch, with a 5A supplementary breaker and a ground fault device. So it all draws less than 5 Amps.
Good tips. Luckily shopping is done as weather is getting dangerous. We will be hunkered down several days due to an ice storm. We have plenty of firewood, lanterns, cookies, gingerbread, eggnog and fudge.
Okay, so ice and icicles on everything. Interesting thing; there are some LED lights and some incandescent outside. The former, generating no heat, are coated in ice but the latter are clear. Not a big surprise but something I had not really thought about.
