I've had Thanksgiving at my house for 30 years and never once had a seating chart. Though I do try to keep the mother-in-law on the other side of the table. I don't worry about who shows up - plenty of food for all. And it's always turkey with a bunch of other stuff. No set time for dinner and nobody ever goes hungry.
Thanks for reminding me about the rotting pumpkin on the front porch. I'll toss it in the garden when I get home tonight. Will probably make good fertilizer.
“I don’t worry about who shows up - plenty of food for all. And it’s always turkey with a bunch of other stuff. No set time for dinner and nobody ever goes hungry.”
Reminds me of childhood. Three or even four generations of women cooking turkey, ham baked with cloves and pineapple, game—venison, bobwhite, duck, fried squirrel, rabbit—candied yams, three kinds of potatoes, corn on the cob, peas, carrots, brown gravy, turkey gravy, giblet gravy, two or three kinds of stuffing, acorn squash, fruit salad, green salad, cornbread, freshly baked white bread with butter and honey, dutch-oven blueberry cobbler, cherry pie, apple pie, peach pie, pumpkin pie, chocolate cake, ice cream, coffee, sweet tea, lemonade, and probably some stuff I don’t remember.
Ah, the sunny slopes of yesterday...