11-27-08 Thursday (Duck, Duck, Goose)

Happy Thanksgiving! Of course being unemployed, today wasn't much different than others. I started the day off by making 25 pancakes. We ate some and the others I froze or refrigerated for some quick breakfast options. We did this to the background sounds of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. I was never much into the parade as it seems more commercials than entertainment. As I was cranking the antenna up, the handle broke in my hand. Sigh.

On a side note, thanks to Mike for identifying the small animal that we didn't get to run over the other day. It's called an Ermine, and is from the weasel family. It's cute, reminds me of the ferret I once had. The Ermine's fur changes colors based on the season. Here's more information if you so desire. Click here. I couldn't believe Mike would know such a thing. As I acted interested in his intelligence, I asked him how he knew. As he explained in depth, I focused on world peace or was it pecan pie, anyways, I don't know what he said.

Isn't it adorable?

After Jim and I finished the Thanksgiving Day family phone calls, we grabbed some bread and went to the Greenbelt which is a pretty park featuring a 20 foot waterfall on Snake River. Oh, the bread, right, well that was to feed the ducks and geese. Earlier in the week we had driven passed the park and witnessed a man and little girl sitting on a park bench, feeding ducks and geese. They were completely surrounded by the birds, it was picture worthy. We had planned to have the same experience for today. After we ran out of bread, Jim went back to the Cherokee to get a 1 pound bag of pretzels we had left behind from a prior roadtrip. It was a lot of fun.

As we waited for our turkey breast to cook, Jim filled the fresh water reserve. There's now something wrong with the level sensor so it kept reading at 3/4. Jim thought it odd to take so long and checked on it. Water was pouring out from the basement where the tank is located. It didn't get into any other compartment but did manage to get into the closet in the bedroom. Because the closet has a deep extra storage well, it didn't get to anything other than some ornaments. Ornaments? Yes, for several years, Jim and I have collected ornaments of states we've been to and then display them on a special tree for Christmas. It makes it more special to look at them for a few weeks out of a year than seeing crap all over the house, all year long.

On the brighter side, dinner came out great. We had turkey breast, biscuits, gravy, green beans, cranberry (the jellied kind!), sausage stuffing with cheese. It was all yummy.

We went to Wal-Mart. Yes, on Thanksgiving. Yes, I'm ashamed. We needed a spatula. OK, we could have waited a little longer for it. But Jim broke the spatula last night. Do you know what it's like to make pancakes with a plastic Publix pie server that kept melting? I bet you don't, so why don't you go back to your big assortment of spatulas and let me have my Wal-Mart time?

Well, you've pissed me off enough with your judging stares, so I'm gonna have some pecan pie.