SC - Turkey Day post-mortem

[Laura C. Minnick]

"James F. Johnson" wrote:

> "Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> > Potatoes and cranberries- yummy. Armoured turnips- yummy. Jello salad-
> > ditto. Spinach tarts were good, but a new addition and therefore Foreign
> > and Suspect. Rotrude remarked that they'd be great for lunch. I froze
> > the extras, thinking that she's right and they'd certainly cheaper than
>
> Odd, the tarts were one of my favourite items. But then, I am Odd,
> Foreign, and Suspect anyway. :) OTOH, I've never been a fan of the
> fruit-in-Jello salads, but now my memory has been jarred to recall the
> cottage cheese and jello salads my mother made for Budgie Day.

Budgie Day? No wonder you make the birds nervous!

> > I have decided that having another adult around who is more than
> > competent in the the kitchen himself is a WONDERFUL thing. We kept
> > washing up as we went along and today the kitchen has stuff to do, but
> > it is by no means the usual disaster. Besides, getting kisses while
> > cooking is very motivational!
> Why, thank you. Thank you, and thank you. You should have know this when
> I showed up with a selection of knives and a whetstone.

"Knives, knives! It's 1184 and we're all barbarians!"

> Don't forget
> Rotrude, who aside from volunteering to assemble the crudite platter,
> was directing the other two in setting up the table (with more or less
> success....), and received the in-process lesson in making gravy.

Yup. And who helped me eat up much of the leftovers this afternoon. (Urp!)

> This holiday also saw the emergence of Triumph, the Insult Herald (only
> makes sense if you're a Conanite..). "Oh, such a very nice
> submission......"

I think we've created a monster...

> sated and unsated, depending on which appetites one in referring to...

Ummm...

> Seumas

'Lainie, who just installed Communicator 4.7 and is still wrestling with it (oh,
for the simple Nav3!)

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