Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for November 24, 2022

Happy thanksgiving to all you Americans!

That you don’t even have to clean, Peekaboo.

This is the only part of Thanksgiving that I dislike — all those extra dishes to clean, plus the cooking dishes.

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Glad to see the men helping out!

Well folks,

We’ve been through a lot. But, the fact that we’re here to give thanks means we’ve still got a lot to be thankful for.

Bless you and your family on Thanksgiving.

We seem to be missing Fanny (Clem’s mom and Rose’s sister). I am wondering what Clem’s father is like.

Everyone, have a Blessed Thanksgiving.

Happy Thanksgiving to all us Yanks! Our Canadian neighbors did theirs on Columbus Day/Indigenous Americans Day.

I refuse to wash their dishes!

He just stacks the food vertically.

Not as much fun though…..

I wonder who is going to wash those tons of utensils.

We had the oddest, but not the worst Thanksgiving since we’ve been together this year.

We used to have both families here every year for Thanksgiving. I handled it all – cooking, clean up, moving furniture, climbing up and getting dishes/glasses down, assembling the leaves into the table, etc. No problems. We stopped having everyone in after we had bed bugs and could not stand the thought of anyone in the house besides us.

Now Thanksgiving dinner is the two of us. This year he helped. Understand he is the better cook – but his family did not eat at home for holidays or formally at all and he gets a bit annoyed with me “playing” with my good dishes, etc for holidays. “Why do we have to eat in the dining room?” (For one thing, we need the kitchen table for carving the turkey.) “I don’t like fabric napkins” – so I use same and give him a (Ikea bought) matching paper napkin.

This year, though was the oddest and most disorganization – he helped. Everything was done out of order. If it was not that we have dessert late night and not after dinner the pies would not have been cooked as it was all so confused. He likes pumpkin pie; I like apple – so I bake one of each and we eat tiny pieces for well over a week. His was in the oven. Mine – apple – I buy canned apples, but we bought the wrong kind – sweetened with an artificial sweetener that makes me ill. So he had pie (at 2 am when we have our late night snacks) and I had Cheerios.

Now we are in the midst of eating the eating the rest of the 16 lb turkey he bought and the rest of the leftovers. What turkey has not been eaten will be frozen in meal size portions sometime this week and and we fill in side dishes as we finish eating them. I am hoping he wants ham for Christmas.

I do have the room back to rights – good china, silverware, dining room table boards and cover put away, and table linens washed and stored away.

Now I have to work on getting ready for our Christmas trees.