Four Day Weekend Thread - US Thanksgiving 2022

Please forgive what may seem to be a somewhat blinkered, mono-culture question, but this is the beginning of a four day weekend in the US and I need to know. What is everyone doing or planning to do over the next four days? Are you cooking? Just eating? Shopping? Burrowing down under a blanket? Contemplating your TBR pile? Jaunting off to the South of France? (oh, wait, that's pgmcc territory...)

Happy thanksgiving to all USAnian Dragoneers.

>1 jillmwo: Apart from sales, it's a normal 2-day weekend here. I'll be going up to Inchanga tomorrow to work on the Railwaysoc library.

The cooking starts today, I'm making cranberry sauce right now. Turkey, twice baked sweet/white potatoes, stuffing, gravy, the works tomorrow. My parents and my sister and nephew are coming here. We were hoping to have my daughter up but due to medical reasons she can't travel.

I'm off for the rest of the week starting today, so hopefully I'll get some reading done on Friday and the weekend.

Happy Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

Happy US Thanksgiving to all who celebrate!

It's only a 2 day weekend in Canada, but we have acquired the "black Friday" sales hoopla without the holiday to go with it. I ignore all that. The only shopping I do is for groceries.

I might do some holiday baking and cleaning.

My son is doing our shopping today. Husband feels a bit off, but not bad yet so we are being safe and staying at home. I learned how to do DinerDash last night! Had Chinese food delivered. Tomorrow I will roast a turkey, also beets and sweet potatoes (not together) and cook some broccoli. Son is buying bread, cookies and a pecan pie. We are foregoing the dressing, potatoes, gravy, etc.

Thankful hearts, lonely table.

>5 MrsLee: Sounds rather like the impromptu Christmas that Mrs H and I had 2 years ago when I got a “you have been exposed” warning on 23 December. But your Thanksgiving will undoubtedly be better.

And another Happy Thanksgiving to USians who are celebrating!

Started cooking and preparing today. Sixteen people at my house, including my son who is driving up from Texas today. Unfortunately, his wife recently had covid and still isn't feeling well, so she's staying home with the dog to fully recover. My mom, 2 sisters, 2 nephews and their wives, and children. We had planned to go St. Louis to the Gateway Arch on Friday, as Tori (DIL) has never been, but we will wait until her next visit to do that. No big plans for Friday except to enjoy visiting with our son, and then he'll leave on Saturday. We do have tickets to see a show in St. Louis on Saturday afternoon.

>1 jillmwo:
While we do not celebrate the US Thanksgiving our daughter who is living in Cincinnati is in the depths of preparation for the big day. Her husband's parents arrived last night. His sister, her husband and two teenaged children arrived today. They are all people who muck in and get involved in organising what needs to be organised, so it sounds like they are all going to be having a great time. We sent them some highly decorated table-mats so that we will be represented at the table. That seemed to go down well.

In terms of "Jaunting off to the South of France", we are not doing that this weekend. What we have done, is made an incursion into Northern Ireland today. We had sterling left over from our trip to London in January 2020 and, thanks to COVID, we have not been to the UK since. In the meantime, the British government has made all paper money non-legal tender as it has introduced all plastic notes. That meant that the sterling we had was not usable. We had to bring it to a UK bank to change it to new notes. That is what we did today. We took our old notes to the bank in Newry and they gave us new notes. We then proceeded to a shopping centre and bought goodies for Christmas with the cash. As it was money we bought almost three years ago it was like having a small lottery win. We used cash and will have no numbers popping up on our credit card bill. It was like receiving a gift of a book token and spending in a bookshop without feeling guilty.

I hope everyone who celebrates the event has a lovely time. Big hugs to those who are not in a position to spend it with their families. (Looking at you MrsLee. Get well soon.)

My youngest son texted me a few days ago to ask about my Thanksgiving plans.
1983 was the last year my parents hosted their last New Jersey Thanksgiving dinner, which since 1961, had featured three turkeys (that took their last breaths that morning) and up to seventy guests. Due to attrition, the 1983 dinner was served to a mere forty relatives who were still in area.
Then my folks moved to Florida, and I became the host-in-chief for my siblings and a cousin or two. Six years later, I relocated to Texas, so it was just me, THiMs, and my three young kids. Divorced her in 1998, and I had the boys in the even-numbered years.
I married MrsHouseLibrary in 2001, and suddenly I'm cooking for twenty-five. The one year one of her relatives cooked Thanksgiving dinner, after painstakingly going over all of the ingredients of the dishes and me pointing out all of the things I couldn't have, I still ended up getting an ulcer. It sucks being me. Regardless, with that one exception, I hosted all of the Texas Thanksgivings up until when Karrell died. And I announced I wasn't going to do it anymore. Since then, her two sisters have their own Thanksgiving dinners with their immediate families only. I'm invited, but always decline.
Same this year, but no one offered an invitation. As for my kids, they can do as they wish, but I'm out. I'm going to spend the day geocaching in what on any other day would be highly populated areas. There'll be no one around to see me snooping in plain sight.
My "dinner" will be a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

We have never hosted a thanksgiving dinner other than for the two of us so that's how it will be again this year. Even when we lived near family we didn't attend a dinner every year. In the early days of our relationship we stayed home and watched horror movies. Though we don't do that anymore, it is still just the two of us and so that's how it is. We don't mind and he cooks a small turkey just for us and I almost look forward to the soup he makes with the bones and scraps even more. So for all of you who have to scrape and slave for so many - my hat is off. I hope your days are full of warmth and charm and someone saves you a drumstick!

It will just be The Husband and I this year. We sometimes have the neighbors over, but they have made other plans this year. So a small turkey, yams with marshmallows (his), mashed potatoes (me), and asparagus. Oh, and rolls. We will have marionberry pie for dessert. Neither of us like pumpkin pie - the texture *shiver*.

I’m thawing the turkey in cold water as I type because I forgot to get it out of the fridge a few days ago. Oops.

It’s also college football rivalry weekend. It used to be called the Civil War, but that stopped being used a couple of years ago. It has yet to be renamed. I think it should be called the Platypus Bowl because its the Beavers vs the Ducks. We will head over the mountains to the game on Friday and stay till Sunday.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all! No holiday here in the UK so it's just a normal weekend. Sadly though, we do seem to have adopted the Black Friday madness, which is just stupid!

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! Be careful shopping tomorrow. :)

Each year over the past decade, our Thanksgiving has been different. Six years ago, it was all of my family (my mother, sisters, brother and all the assorted spouses, children, children's significant others, etc.) Last year, we were with my son and his wife in CT along with our younger son. This year it's just the two of us so my husband decided it made sense to go and support one of our local privately-owned restaurants that is still trying to come back from the pandemic. We'll eat our main Thanksgiving meal this afternoon there with something light for the late evening.

Watching the parade now. Wondering why we do some of the things we do as a society. (I can't think why we're doing a Neil Diamond musical on Broadway. I need to Google that one...)

Happy Thanksgiving to those of you feasting here in the States and to the rest of you Pub Denizens, know that I count you among my blessings.

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

I will go to my daughter's place. I offered but she wanted to do it so I will do Christmas here. It will be a small group.

Hope all of you who celebrate it this weekend had a lovely Thanksgiving!

No four-day weekend here, but I was pretty busy. Our Historical Society had our AGM Sunday, and as I am treasurer, I'm the one who has to do the financial report, which is a big job (and sadly left to the last few days, due to various reasons). Also, because of my tech and word processing experience I'm the one who does the finishing touches on the annual report, including getting enough copies printed. It was also a two-day Christmas craft fair this weekend, and I was helping at the museum/historical society tables. Friday night I went out for Japanese food with a couple of friends. Saturday night there was a one-man circus entertainer at the theatre (he was fun!). Sunday night was the AGM dinner. Tonight I went to see a movie called Guitar Lessons. It is set in a northern Alberta town, quite similar to my northern BC town, and was really good. I think it was made in Edmonton and High Level. We also had a snow storm Saturday night and Sunday morning, which finally gave us enough snow to set tracks on the cross-country ski trails. My friend Tim set the tracks today, and the skiing is lovely!