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The BEST Turkey Day.............."WKRP Cincinnati".............
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I sincerely hope everyone here has a safe and happy Thanksgiving 
We All have Lots to be Thankful for!
We All have Lots to be Thankful for!
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This has been our weirdest Thanksgiving ever. With both good and bad. I am working at getting my mom settled in an assisted living situation as she has really bad dementia and her husband has recently passed. He tried to care for her but it just got to much and he was just to old and ill to do it anymore and we lived 3-4 hours away and my own hubby was really sick so things got pretty bad. Anyway we got her into a good place and she is getting settled and my kids both had In-laws and work stuff so they both could not make it out. I was totally fine with NOT cooking and just planned to sleep in, play with my sewing room etc. Hubby was going to do nothing but watch football. I felt just a tiny bit sad that it was not the big family gathering we usually have. But I was tired and fully enjoyed the quiet day. I posted online our frozen pizza and store bought pie and told everyone how weird it felt. I was instantly overwhelmed by local friends calling and offering us a space at their tables. I had to explain that we're both fine and actually enjoying our quiet day and still today we are getting offers. So while it did feel weird it also felt so good to have the offers from so many people. I reposted that all was fine and thanked everyone for all the offers. Now though I am not sure how to have Thanksgiving weekend without the mountain of leftovers we usually eat for 4-5 days.
A few years back when it was Thanksgiving I went to the grocery store and bought a rotisserie chicken, cranberry sauce, stovetop stuffing and I went to a bakery a bought fresh baked loaf of crusty bread. Bought a pie too. That was my Thanksgiving dinner and there was enough for leftovers. The bakery was the French one in Pahrump NV. It was truthfully one of my favorite Thanksgiving dinners ever as that loaf of bread made fantastically good sandwiches and that chicken was really excellent quality too. I had 4 days worth of “leftovers” to enjoy!
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Now I have a fantasy of you calling your friends back and asking if you could have some leftovers ...
My most sorry-@ss Thanksgiving ever was in Gallup, NM in the early 90s (back before it got prettied up and the chain motels moved in). I was working at the local paper and pretty much everyone I knew had left town. The downtown area was totally dead on Sundays/holidays. So I walked a couple miles to a gas station/convenience store, got a shrink-wrapped turkey sandwich, and sat on a bollard or something in the parking lot to eat it, but some sketchy guy started bugging me so I just left and walked home.
You live long enough, almost anything can turn into a fond memory. (ALMOST anything.)
twomountainlions
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I dread any major holidays because I fulltime and crowds go to nature places during holidays, in Arizona it happens during this season. Just want it to be over.
Now the week after Thanksgiving when its extra empty on public lands, I take that any time, gimme some of that.
Now the week after Thanksgiving when its extra empty on public lands, I take that any time, gimme some of that.
It was indeed a fun, peaceful and yummy Thanksgiving potluck here at La Posa South LTVA. Abnorm cooked up storm for several days getting everything ready. I could sometimes see him in his outdoor kitchen from my trailer’s window when I occasionally glanced out of it.
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Christmas and New Years are ahead, this will be the worst hordes on public lands......noooooo!
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WHAT ?
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No, just noooooo!
twomountainlions
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I had a nightmare last night, its a big holiday and milions of rigs, trucks, suvs invade public lands and Im trying to escape from them but they are densely packed everywhere and more are coming and coming, finally I find a secret grove of trees, pines growing in the desert and hide in it. Looking forward to not only to christmas/nye to pass but the entire snowbird season to pass and northern lands, forests to open up with good weather again!
Happy Thanksgiving…. I always appreciate a little bit of turkey… last time my birthday was on thanksgiving I had just had surgery and was in the hospital on a liquid diet. My choice closest to turkey was chicken broth… So I embrace a good Thanksgiving meal when I can…
Twomountainlions… sad you feel like that. But hey, we’re all different… you can find much solitude all around you. But I’d challenge you to embrace the many folks that keep coming back. Many contribute greatly for these opportunities to be available. You can find places that are not so populated… and not far away either. Good luck. And Happy Holidays…
Twomountainlions… sad you feel like that. But hey, we’re all different… you can find much solitude all around you. But I’d challenge you to embrace the many folks that keep coming back. Many contribute greatly for these opportunities to be available. You can find places that are not so populated… and not far away either. Good luck. And Happy Holidays…
Some folks only feel comfortable making contact with other humans at a far distance such as socializing in online groups. Unfortunately that can still lead to feeling like your personal space is being invaded. Nightmares about having ones’ personal space invaded. I guess that could get caused by reading about nomads having social gatherings such as Thanksgiving. So just avoid reading those posts
