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Posted on 11/03/2004 6:16:42 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
Eleventh Thread: Wedding Edition: The Hobbit Hole XI - No One Admitted Except on Wedding Business!
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Happy Thanksgiving, to all my new FRiends of the Hobbit Hole!
Low-key dinner with family, here. My Ladywife and I will be out before sunrise to catch the best deals.
Heard from an old friend and former FReeper: he got his orders, and will be headed out next month. He got to spend the holidays here Stateside, though, so one good blessing for them.
Well...I'm back! I did a lot of the meal - the turkey and the rolls and my two pies and setting it all out. Bilbo did the mashed potatoes and the dressing, and Dad did the gravy. Everything was good! We also had plenty of wine available...
We didn't eat until about seven, so I'm still full! Time to relax for a bit.
'scuse me?
;-)
Wise opinion my FRiend. That is indeed what we will do.
Does he have HH knife?
We had a couple of friends over from church. So it was just the seven of us. Wife's sister and family came over later.
We are thankful today that God spaced our children 10 years apart (she has three, 6, 4, 1 1/2)
I'm thankful for funkles.
D's kids and grandkids brought this to Thanksgiving.
Would any of you who've met Gidget bring this to an event that Gidget was gonna be at?
LOL... It was almost bad, D's six year old grand-daughter walks in the door today all proud of her bird sitting on her finger. Luckily and with much quick intervention, the bird was not murdered. But Gidget was fixated and had to spend much of the day in the truck.
The parents would ask - "Does she have to go to the truck even if we set the bird up on a table or something?" I'd say.... "Have you ever seen this dog lung at the television at the mere IMAGE of a bird?" I said... "Not a good idea."
Corin: Well, the sights and aromas of the Holiday repaste emanating from the Kitchen seemed far more enjoyable than the smell of duco cement in the basement.
If tomorrow stays warm like today, there may be some exterior decorating undertaken.
Hair; cute bird, though I would not have guessed it would been something to bring 'for show and tell' at a Thanksgiving day banquet. Hope Gidget and the interior of your truck are none the worse for the experience.
Good Night HH one and all.
I'm thinking that instead of heading off to the cemetery, why can't families just take a break and have lunch with the people who attended the funeral. Then, after the luncheon, the family and those who wanted to attend could go out to the cemetery and have the graveside service. It seems to me there would be a lot less stress and time wasted by doing it that way. I hate to be crass, but the deceased doesn't care.
In my Mama's case, there were several people I saw on the way out of Mass that had not been able to make it to the wake the night before, but I would loved to have been able to visit with them. One of them was a former President of the University of Sou. Mississippi, who had been Mama's boss when he was Registrar of the Univ. It was so sweet for him to take the time to honor Mama in that way, yet none of us was able to thank him and his wife for coming.
Oh well, I was just thinking about it...
Heh...wife's Richmond sister got married on January 2. Nana, Papa and an older sister stayed with us.
Older sister brought her parakeet because she was afraid that it would freeze if the power went out while she was gone. She stayed in Jr's room and had the bird there.
We came home between the wedding and another event we had to go to so that we could turn on the candles in the windows. Wife walked into Jr's room and felt something fly by her head.
Abby (the cat) had gotten into Jr's room and pushed the cage off of the chest. The cage and birdseed were all over the floor.
Fortunately, the bird was okay. I managed to go up behind it with a handkerchief and get it back in the cage.
We didn't tell the sister for weeks...
Yeah, funeral customs are weird. The ones we've been to in recent years, the church has done a meal for the family. For Papa it was after the graveside service. For wife's uncle it was before.
Granted, they have a HUGH family. Papa was the oldest of nine. But still there were lots of friends and acquaintances that we didn't get to visit with.
I used to care about my funeral. I don't really anymore. Just want the wife and boys to do what they think they need to say goodbye. And, I've decided that I want to be cremated.
Why? Because everytime I go home and can't (or don't) stop at the cemetary at my Dad's grave, I feel pangs of guilt. Even after 26 years.
I don't want my boys to have to worry about that. It's not like my Dad is there. But I feel like I'm ignoring him if I don't stop.
SSQ and I haven't discussed what we'd do if either of us died up here in the frozen north, or where we'd want to be buried. I guess it's something we don't really want to discuss; it'll come up in it's own time.
Sorry for the morbid conversation. It's just something I thought about when you mentioned your friend's funeral.
Agreed. And I know it's a weird obsession to have. I'd have to admit that I'm sure part of it is just the fact that I lost my Dad way too soon. I was 20. He was only 49.
As much as I've "dealt" with it, I've never gotten over it.
And don't worry about the morbid conversation. Death is a part of life and a reality we all have to face. Talking about it ahead of time may help us better prepare for the next time we're faced with it.
No, IMO. Your first obligation is to the living and you already have important plans with them. Your friend is in a place where they can see what's in your heart and it's not necessary for you to show up physically to show how you feel. If you went it would be mainly to support your friends' living relatives, so you have to weigh that against your obligations to your own family, IMO.
It was a turkey crossing zone, LOL! Yes, there were some strutting around today--right behind a window where I've got a decorative turkey sitting on a table next to a toy shotgun :-) I knocked on the window to warn 'em today was turkey-eating day, LOL!
Good evening... I hope you have figured out your answer to the funeral thing.
My dinner went well! They liked the turkey (nobody knew how to carve it, but we managed, and oh, it came out lovely) and, beeing guys, adored the pecan pie. I brought home the tiniest sliver to have before bed.
Spent prolly seven hours all told watching... um... you-know-what. Five hours of a mafia story that makes "The Godfather" look civil.
By the way, it is now after midnight in most US time zones.
Let me be the first to say: Christmas Season! Yay! Christmas carols and candles and trees and cookies and figuring out what to get difficult relatives. And Advent reflection, specially meaningful church services, time with family...
I get to go home for three weeks... I love Christmas.
lol...no, but she did have her turkey with ketchup...just like her ol' man.
Think I'll be fixin' a turkey omlette here soon.
Mine?
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