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Merry Christ­mas to all.…  Hope you all have a safe, healthy and Happy Holiday

We’ll be back at it after the Hol­i­days.….  Talk then

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Well it turns out I’m not half bad at build­ing Jack O’ Lanterns either, though I have not done one in more than 35 years.  My bet­ter half humors me, rolls her eyes, and prob­a­bly thinks “Geez I’m going to have a real mess to clean up when this bozo is done”,  She didn’t know the half of it, if she had any clue where this project was going to go she prob­a­bly would have just hurled my pump­kin into the pond out back.  Of course she didn’t, and prob­a­bly because my trusty side-kick “Wyatt” our res­cued Bor­der Col­lie, would no doubt have gone right in after it to save his master’s prop­erty, then she might have had to clean the dog too!  Remem­ber, I Love you Honey.…

We have been hav­ing a dis­cus­sion about me want­ing to make a Tur­ducken for Thanks­giv­ing, that con­ver­sa­tion always end­ing with the phrase “No Way” or some­thing sim­i­lar.  For those not famil­iar with it, it is a de-boned chicken stuffed into a de-boned duck, which is then stuffed into de-boned turkey.  Cook it for 12 hours or so and there you have it.…  Well decid­ing I had no shot at Thanks­giv­ing, I fig­ured why not Hal­loween… Soooooo, when I arrived home this week tot­ing a turkey,  and a chicken,  she reluc­tantly surrendered.

I de-boned the chicken and turkey (never hav­ing done it before) and admit­tedly made a huge mess of her kitchen, though I did not yet have the duck, I had to spe­cial order it.  Yes­ter­day, the duck came in, I went over to pick it up and began think­ing if I bring this thing home and mess up the kitchen again I’m liable to get shot, so I had the butcher de-bone it for me.  Mary Lee finally broke down and made a sausage stuff­ing for all three birds and then helped me assem­ble this mon­stros­ity, no doubt think­ing, if I get involved hope­fully I won’t end up spend­ing 2 hours clean­ing the kitchen again.  Last night we spent an hour putting it all together, push­ing, pulling, tuck­ing and rolling, Mary Lee’s sur­gi­cal skills came in handy when we had to suture this thing up.  It kind of looks like the Bride Of Franken­stein because after sewing up the bot­tom, we real­ized we stuffed so much into it we split the top, so a few more stiches here and there and we were done.  So here we sat with what looked like a 24 lb. turkey that weighted more like 30 lbs. with all that was in it.  It was at this point I real­ized, what the heck are we going to do with all this food.… So we quickly orga­nized a lit­tle get together with the neigh­bors for this evening and they will be the guinea pigs.

If this doesn’t end well my cos­tume for the evening is likely to be the “Vil­lage Idiot”.  The beast went into the oven at 5:30AM and the party begins at 5:00PM, wish me luck and I hope you all have a great day and a very scary evening, I know I will.……

BOO

Novem­ber 1st Update:  Well, the Tur­ducken was a huge suc­cess and a very big hit.  It cooked in about 10 hours, let it rest for an hour and the party began.  Many bot­tles of wine, a lot of laughs and a great time was had by all.  Mary Lee said “you know that was a lot bet­ter than I thought it was going to be, maybe we’ll do one for Christ­mas!”  I just love it when a great plan comes together.….….…

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