Happy Thanksgiving to everyone!
Today we will hold our annual Turley Turkey Bowl with about 40 neighborhood kids early Thanksgiving morning. As always, it will be the Chicago Bears versus the Washington Redskins (though I have promised to fork over the donuts and hot chocolate even if the Bears lose).
We do a two Turkey dinner (despite watching the PETA Thanksgiving commercial). I cook a fresh Turkey in the oven and a second bird on the grill with smoking wine chips. Last year, the grill Turkey burst into flames, so I am hoping to redeem myself this year. Ironically, after putting the flaming bird out, we served the two birds separately. The grill bird was by far the most popular. It was the ultimate smoked bird. This year, I am going to try to regain that smoked taste without the actual smoking Turkey.
I hope that everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I view our little group of regulars like a virtual family and I will be toasting to our merry band of miscreants with a nice Pinot Noir this holiday!
have a great holiday
Happy Thanksgiving everyone
hook em Horns
Cell too?
Talk about catching your own meal:
Happy Thanksgiving to all! I must say that was a Thanksgiving moment when everyone accused Nal of cheating on the puzzle. This really is like a family! It’s a lot of fun on the blog because of all of you and I’m grateful to be part of it. I can read fortunes (out of cookies) and here’s the one I found for us all–“you will make a masterpiece.” With my best wishes on this day. Jill
This is making me hungry….
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Tupperware. Thanksgiving eats Tupperware like dryers eat socks. That was funny, eniobob.
Happy and fruitful Thanksgivng to all here are rules to help you and yours enjoy this holiday.:)
10 RULES FOR THANKSGIVING DINNER AT MY HOUSE
Author Unknown
1. Don’t get in line asking questions about the food. “Who made the potato salad? Is it egg in there? Are the greens fresh? Is the meat in the greens turkey or pork? Who made the macaroni and cheese? What kind of pie is that? Who made it? Ask one more question and I will punch you in your mouth, knocking out all your fronts so you won’t be able to eat anything.
2. If you can’t walk or are missing any limbs, sit your butt down until someone makes your plate for you. Dinner time is not the time for you to be independent. Nibble on them pecans and walnuts to hold you over until someone makes you a plate.
3. If you have kids under the age of twelve, I will escort their little butts to the basement and bring their food down to them. They are not gonna tear my house up this year. Tell them that they are not allowed upstairs until it’s time for Uncle Butchie to start telling family stories about their mommas and papas. If they come upstairs for any reason except for that they are bleeding to death, I will tear their butts up and you better not ask why!
4. There is going to be one prayer for Thanksgiving dinner! JUST ONE! We do not care that you are thankful that your 13 year old daughter gave birth to a healthy baby or your nephew just got out of jail. The time limit for the prayer is one minute. If you are still talking after that one minute is up, you will feel something hard come across your lips and they will be swollen for approximately 20 minutes.
5. Finish everything on your plate before you go up for seconds! If you don’t, you will be asked to stay your greedy butt home next year!
6. BRING YOUR OWN TUPPERWARE!! Don’t let me catch you fixing yourself a plate in my good Tupperware knowing that I will never see it again! Furthermore, if you didn’t bring anything over, don’t let me catch you making a plate period or it will be a misunderstanding. And why are you making plates before you eat? You never bring a dish or offer a dime do you?
7. What you came with is what you should leave with!! Do not leave my house with anything that doesn’t belong to you. EVERYBODY WILL BE SUBJECTED TO A BODY SEARCH COMING AND GOING OUT OF MY DOMAIN!!!
8. Do not leave your kids so you can go hopping from house to house. This is not a DAYCARE CENTER! There will be a kid-parent roll call every ten minutes. Any parent that is not present at the time of roll call, your child will be put outside until you come and get him or her. After 24 hours, I will call CPS!
9. BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM BEFORE YOU COME INTO TOWN!! There will be no sleeping over at my house! You are to come and eat dinner and go home or to your hotel room. EVERYBODY GETS KICKED OUT AT 11:00 pm. You will get a 15 minute warning bell ring.
10. Last but not least! ONE PLATE PER PERSON!! This is not a soup kitchen. I am not trying to feed your family until Christmas dinner! You will be supervised when you fix your plate. Anything over the appropriate amount will be charged to you before you leave. There will be a cash register at the door. Thanks to Cousin Alfred and his greedy family, we now have a credit card machine! So VISA and MASTERCARD are now being accepted. NO FOOD STAMPS OR ACCESS CARDS YET!
Speaking of good shows, thanks for the Van Morrison, CCD. A very good recording too. I hope Chicago is treating you and your people well today.
Hey, you yours again, Anonymously. Good show.
Yeah, what mespo said Elaine. Both me and FFEO have been known to trot out a verse or two, but around these parts you are truly the Queen of Poets and we your lowly jesters. There would indeed be open revolt if you were banned.
Thank you to all of the blog family. The score today was Bears 14 and Redskins 14. Though, I will note that there was a dispute over the field line. However, the Redskins did pull off an amazing Hail Mary pass with one minute to go. We decided to leave it as a tie — the perfect Thanksgiving result. As the de facto coach of the McLean-Chicago Bears, well done team! It is clear that God loves the Bears, but also wanted a Turkey bowl that left no one (even the Redskins) without something to be thankful for.
The play of the day was Sidney’s touchdown that involved hiding the ball in her hood. At eleven with a broken arm, she just waltzed through the line of furious Redskin players who were looking frantically for the ball.
This really works?
Nourishment for Res ipsa loquitur, cause this Blawg’s got nuthin’ but Soul! Celtic magnificence, filmed Thanksgiving 1976.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYr60DVzehg
The horn stabs on the finale are pure bliss.
Ban Elaine M? JT would have a revolt on his hands. After all, you are the poet laureate of the blog. We love it!!
mespo–
Corny humor is welcome–especially on Thanksgiving Day. I guess I’d have to add that I’m thankful for not being banned from the blawg for often commenting in verse.
Just a quickie quatrain for the holiday:
PETA, PETA,
Pumpkin eata,
Ingest no meat or fowl today.
Come celebrate the vegan way.
I hope there won’t be an flaming fowl at the Turley house on this–our annual–day of thanks.
I’m letting the hubby roast our “big bird.”
Happy Thanksgiving!
Though we don’t have a Thanksgiving table on our blog, I would like to offer my little toast: Thanks to JT for giving us this unique open forum to express ourselves. I have always considered it our Algonquin Round Table if only in a virtual sense. I also would like to thank all of you who endure my corny humor, sometimes inane ramblings, and my arrogant assumption that I have ANY of the answers. Happy Thanksgiving to you all!
Happy Thanksgiving to all the Turleys.
/Go Bears!
Happy Thanksgiving
May the fullness of your bellies only be surpassed by the fullness of your hearts.
And always remember – this would be a much different meal if Ben Franklin had gotten his way vis a vis the National Bird. Does cranberry sauce go with eagle? I guess we’ll never know.
I am all for the Smoked Flaming Turkey. Been there. Flaming Wine Chips? Go for Hickory, Apple, Pear logs, they last longer. If you want a hint of bacon smoke use seasoned Pecan. Yummy.