I am pleased to report that the pumpkin pie filling passed the taste test prior to baking. You can't trust these things to chance, particularly with my lack of precise measuring. Brendon would be okay with a pie first plan.

I have managed to clean the kitchen from yesterday's cooking, so it is prepared and ready to go.

Wrote out my menu to keep track of it and I'm in pretty good shape.

Especially since dinner got pushed back to 4pm.

I've cleaned up a little around the house though it needs vacuuming.

And I have showered and shaved and am about to go outside to find Second Coffee and perhaps a bagel before I start cooking the mushroom stew and get the bird in the oven.

The brown butter sauce for the pumpkin ravioli is in the crock pot so I don’t have to make it last minute this year. I’ve never done it that way before. So hopefully it comes out okay.

lol, “pushed back to 4pm” reminds me that the friend I’m staying with was raised Jehovas Witness, so when I tried to explain that there seems to be sort of two traditions, one of Thanksgiving dinner at dinner time (6 or 7 or whatever) and one of Thanksgiving dinner in early afternoon so that you eat a late breakfast/brunch, then turkey, then have time to get hungry again and have seconds, she found it bizarre. What time do y’all think of Thanksgiving dinner as being appropriate? My family has in the past done 6pm but in my mind it’s more appropriate to be like “show up at 230 and eat no later than 4” whilst football or the parade or some similar thing is on tv and chaos reigns in a kitchen?

We always aimed at 2, which ended up being 3.

We had it as lunch. You really are some of my favorite humans.

Thanksgiving meal anywhere from 1-3.

We just had the pumpkin ravioli and the butternut squash soup, and I’m already full.

Early afternoon. We’ll be eating around 4 today which is a bit on the late side but I dragged ass a bit coming down to get started.

One year a friend of mine got a goose to cook for Thanksgiving and asked me to help cook it as she didn’t have much experience with roasting large fowl and then was surprised how early i showed up at her door to get started. I think we actually ate around dinner time, it was a large bird.

I was lured into subscribing to yoga-go by their ads for a tai chi program but I haven’t actually started it yet. I miss tai chi, and having someone tell me what to through headphones might be enough to get me going again. Actually need headphones to make that practical, though, the last set I bought have fallen apart and I seem to have lost my airpods

Dang, our dinner is at 6, with apps at 4.