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NOVEMBER – Winter is setting in. With return to Standard Time the dark evenings are even longer. It will soon be dark by 6:00 p.m. here in southern Ohio. Many of our November days are just all-over grey, from grey skies to gray hills with leafless grey trees and grey atmosphere – just cold, damp and gloomy. Still too early to expect much, if any, snow. But on an occasional sunny day we might enjoy a heavy frost on lingering green leaves. And inside all is warm, colorful and cheery. All month (in my family, anyway) we are planning the Thanksgiving feast. Thanksgiving Day, a day set aside for giving thanks to God for all the blessings in our lives, is a national holiday and a major one for most of us.
Here at the Gabfest, we have the gloom of empty nests. But we also have the cheer of knowing that Millicent is settled in her warm winter home, while Breagha is enjoying his second winter not too far away. Our chat-room fires are kept burning brightly and our new TV/telly screen is always at the ready., so hopefully we can all keep our computers in working order and enjoy a little chit-chat, some music and maybe a bit of streetwalking. Special Events include the possibility of another Music Night with suggested Movie theme and a group streetwalk to some as yet mystery location.
So where is our Gabfest chat-room.? Have you ever wondered? Well of course, it is at some undisclosed cyberspace location in the beautiful Scottish Highlands, not too far from the Loch Garten nest, home of EJ and Odin.
Keith nice to see ospreys on a nest when ours are absent! Actuall its really not long to wait noe i think once Christmas is gone time just flies by and the days get longer
Willow, unless you are vegetarian, pork shoulder is not EEK. LOL! Actually, it is very similar to ham, not one of the organ meats so many people think of as EEKie. Going by the name I would guess that it is the top portion of a front leg, while the ham is the top portion of the back leg. Anyway, unlike ham which is "cured", this is fresh uncured meat, mild in flavor and, to my taste, very good. Just unusual for Thanksgiving.
To me there is no EEKie part. As you will have gathered from some of my recent posts, I grew up in the country. Each spring Dad bought a piglet, which grown to full size, was butchered in the fall about this time of year. At our house food, (vegetables, meat, whatever) was put on the table and we ate it or not - our choice, no lectures, no coaxing, no alternative choices if we didn't like something. Believe me, I ate rather than go hungry. With the head they sometimes made "head cheese". something resembling certain kinds of luncheon meat. To this day I like and enjoy all tthat stuff, most of which we can't even buy anymore.
June, the eek referred to the pigs head jelly! I used to love pork and my mum made the most tasty crackling! We were given cooked liver heartsand all sorts of offal and tripe and we ate it,as my parents always said eat it or go without! So we ate it, in fact none of us were fussy eaters LOL!
willow, seems that you grew up with the same philosophy that I did. Wise parents, IMO. I know one lady who said she HAD to cook two meals at one time as one daughter didn't like -- and the other daughter didn't like --. Nonsense.
A new Gabfest thread has been opened for December.
no can get your link to work June. lololol