Two by two, hands of blue. Two by two, hands of blue.

River ,'Ariel'


Natter 78: I might need to watch some Buffy for inspiration

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


DavidS - Nov 28, 2024 9:48:15 am PST #3722 of 4216
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."

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.


sj - Nov 28, 2024 9:52:00 am PST #3723 of 4216
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

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.


meara - Nov 28, 2024 9:55:01 am PST #3724 of 4216

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?


Laura - Nov 28, 2024 10:03:49 am PST #3725 of 4216
Our wings are not tired.

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


erikaj - Nov 28, 2024 10:51:37 am PST #3726 of 4216
Always Anti-fascist!

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


Dana - Nov 28, 2024 11:15:41 am PST #3727 of 4216
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."

Thanksgiving meal anywhere from 1-3.


sj - Nov 28, 2024 11:27:24 am PST #3728 of 4216
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

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


-t - Nov 28, 2024 11:40:25 am PST #3729 of 4216
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

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


Steph L. - Nov 28, 2024 11:50:48 am PST #3730 of 4216
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

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


Laura - Nov 28, 2024 12:03:59 pm PST #3731 of 4216
Our wings are not tired.

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

Yum, two of my favorites.

I ditched the sprouts and did sauteed spinach instead. Gave me the green without the need for the oven for a half hour. We have consumed the main event now and will wait for room to be available for pie.

The weather is absolutely perfect, so we ate outside.  My NY family has a pretty coating of snow, which is super pretty, but not good for outdoor eating. They have a winter storm warning with a lot mor snow to follow. Here it is 82 and sunny.