so whats everyones plans? what are you cooking?

ive got both my side of the family and the inlaws coming over.

got a 15lb butterball ready to go in the smoker. also smoking ribs for breakfast.

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Eat - sleep - watch T.V. ...... and repeat.

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boooorrrrrriiiinnnnnggggggggg..

You know, I'm half tempted to go participate in the First Annual Black Thursday Night BONANZA Cattle Stampede. Never done a Black Friday before. Wouldn't even have to get up early.
I'll betcha there will be some crazy sheet happenin' down at the local WalMart.

Of course, I may fall asleep after Turkey dinner at the g/f's house.

I could tell you what I'm REALLY going to be doing, but then I would have to kill you. And I really don't want to do that.. have a great Thanksgiving my man.

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Thursday I am going to South Bend to sup with my siblings and some of my kids and mom.

Saturday I am heading to Minnesota to pick up the Studebaker.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It'll be the first Thanksgiving without my mom. Going in with very mixed emotions.

Heading over to my brother's house with my crew, my father and my brother's in-laws. 15 in total. We usually fry a turkey but this year we're doing one on the rotisserie and one in the oven. Too many kids running around now, don't want to have to worry about the fryer. Frees up more time to eat appetizers and watch more football.

I hoping the company, food, beer and football are enough to help compensate for the one glaring absence.

Hope you all have a safe & happy one! I'm going to try my best.

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Back 'atcha.

First time I'm not able to return to my family for Thanksgiving (just started a new job with an odd schedule). So my parents are coming down to have a nice big dinner with me and my gf's family, should be a good time! It's going to be kind of weird being away from home though, I've spent the last 24 at the place I grew up.

In summary - good food, good wine, good company

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Tom,
Are you still seeing the same young lady I met at the Chadfest a few years back? Tell her I said hi and hope she's doing well. She was from up in CT too iirc.
Go 'Cats!

Cook your turkey flat.

put a defrosted bird on breast side down. With good kitchen shears cut from the vent up to where the neck used to be on both sides of the backbone and remove it. Pry it open a bit. Flip the bird over. Put your left had against the bird's breast bone and with your right had give the breast bone a hard push towards your left until the bone breaks. Push down on the breast and flatten the turkey. Remove the legs and thighs. Oil and season the three turkey parts as you wish and lay them in a large roasting pan on a bed of celery, onion and carrot with a few whole garlic cloves scattered around and some sprigs of fresh rosemary, thyme and sage.
Roast in a preheated 350 degree oven. An 18 pound bird will cook in about an hour and a half this way.

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1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

Work.

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-Justin

91 560 SEC AMG - other dogs dd
01 Honda S2000 - dogs dd
07 MB ML320 CDI - dd
16 Lexus IS250 - wifes dd

it's automatic.

My ex-wife just died after 6 days in a come. She was buried yesterday. My son is spending time with friends his age, mostly to forget. The in-laws naturally consider me the great Satn and all the relatives on my side of the family have predeceased me.

So Thanksgiving will be a quiet day in which I brush paint the trailer I'm taking out west, and clean the kitchen.

Forgot to mention: It's my birthday! Every 11 years Thanksgiving falls on my b'day.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

FIL will be transporting a Turkey and sundry other foodstuffs up to us from Tucson. Just the four of us and him for the feast. MIL and others will show up at xmas.

Hopefully he'll bring some guns along too and we can get some shooting in...

- Peter.

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2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Happy Birthday Strelnik. Mine was on Thanksgiving last year. I treated myself to a breakfast out alone, then a walk on the Ocean City boardwalk.
Stand down. Relax. Take it easy. You have certainly earned it.

After my Mom's health problems back in January, she is now in Assisted Living. It will be the first year since my wife and I married 38 years ago, that my Mom will not be making thanksgiving Dinner. My wife is going to cook at my Mom's house and we will bring her home for Thanksgiving Dinner.

The whole fam damily should be there.

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