Update

How was your Thanksgiving? Mine was great, thanks. 

My cousin, Cathy, her daughter, Christina, and Cathy's companion, Greg, came over for dinner. I made turkey, dinner rolls, heart attack mashed potatoes, and Cathy and company brought nibbles (deviled eggs, olives, pickles, etc.) and cranberry sauce. The best part was the conversation and the snuggles (hey, Tavie, I got kitchen snuggles from my cousin!) and the laughs.

One other Thanksgiving note; I was talking to Sparkie the other day, I was telling him about the push to make lobster the Thanksgiving meal in Maine. He pointed out in fact lobster was served at the first Thanksgiving, but never caught on. I said that it was because they were so hard to stuff and the guy with the instructions died.

I've kept the place pretty clean after the huge push to get it clean for company; dishes are done every day so that there is nothing in the sink when I go to bed, the table has remained mostly clutter free and I'm going to vacuum today.

In cooking news, for the first time I boiled down the turkey carcass for stock, it took until yesterday to get it down to a really flavorful broth. It was so good that I had to have some last night with the last of the left over turkey meat and potato. Very yummy! I'll have to get another bird while they are relatively cheap for cooking and broth. I'd like to can it or freeze it. Yes, it was that good.

Now I've got to get two more colors of silk and I can make my curtains for the living room. I'd like to go to The Christmas Tree Shop again to get one more curtain rod for the kitchen, but I don't have any of the fabric for that yet so it can wait.

I'm off to eBay to look at fabric!