[Sca-cooks] Thanksgiving Cooking in a Corset

[Wanda Pease]

Thanksgiving went off only two hours late today.  Dolores Jane Turkey turned
out to be largely frozen despite having started thawing in the cooler in the
auxiliary refrigerator (garage - temps don't get above 40 degrees in there
this time of year, and a large, frozen mass in a cooler isn't in danger of
overheating).  So we filled the sink and sent Dolores Jane to swim with the
fishes for an hour.

A lot of prep work had been done by 'Lanie and I earlier in the week, and
when James arrived from Ashland we could pretty much let him work at the
non-canonical corn bread stuffing and some truly yummy rolls.

I seem to have pulled a muscle in my back, the one just below the bra line
(sorry gentlemen, but you know where I mean) and standing and work was
beginning to cause a lot of pain.  I finally decided to see if my Tudor
corset might help me stand up straight and ease that muscle.  So I fished
out the new one that I made this summer, slipped it on and pulled the laces
tight.

Bummer!  There was no more corset spring.  The edges came together.  Good
because it means I have lost two inches off my bust, but bad because it
isn't going to be of any use as a corset under my Tudor style gowns.  Have
to make a new one.

However it is still tight enough to provide back support so it stayed on.
Sure enough I spent all the rest of the day working around and my back was
fine.  It wasn't until I took it off after dinner (Oof!  Belt, corset,
anything tight around the tummy) that my back began bothering me again, but
now I can take Valium and if I fall asleep there isn't a problem.

I'll use the idea for tomorrow and the 18-20 person Thanksgiving for Friends
we traditionally have!

"Back brace, we don't need no steekin' back brace!  We are Tudor!"

Regina Romsey/Wanda Pease
Sit vis nobiscum.