Thanksgiving

Here we are in our dining room just about to sit down and eat our Thanksgiving dinner. It was a very warm day (70 degrees!) and so we were able to barbecue our turkey outside, which turned out great. Besides the turkey, we had green bean casserole, wild rice, glazed carrots, stuffing with smoked oysters, sweet potato hash browns, cranberry sauce (whole cranberry sauce AND jellied cranberry sauce (with lines!)) pumpkin pie made with a pumpkin from the garden, American sparkling wine (méthode champagnoise) and, in honor of Sarah, with a nod to France, Beaujolais Nouveau, 2007. Well, we always have Beaujolais Nouveau, but anyway... We followed dinner with a viewing of Saturday Night Live commercial parodies and a showing of "Slacker". Sandy was very grateful for the nice turkey scraps she got. Whitey appreciated a small serving of whipped cream. Olive  was grateful because she had a choice among three warm and very immobile laps for her post-dinner nap. We elected not to get up for the 5 a.m. Black Friday opening at Boscov's.