20041218-cruise-friends-memories Part 3

[paulcrsb]

GaRry - Have a good time! Sounds like a lot of fun! NOT!!!!!!

Paul

 

[paulcrsb]

Originally posted by justmestace
Let's see:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Gravy
Rolls
Relish Tray.....lots of black olives to stick on the tips of my fingers!
Jellied Cranberry
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

What did I forget????

Boones Farm!!!!!!

Paul

 

[paulcrsb]

Originally posted by WVMD
Virgil
TFD

That pirate name still cracks me up!

Paul

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by justmestace

Relish Tray.....lots of black olives to stick on the tips of my fingers!

/B]

Well, that makes 4...or do you run 'em through and stack 'em in true pirate fashion?

 

[justmestace]

Originally posted by videogal1
Well, that makes 4...or do you run 'em through and stack 'em in true pirate fashion?

Just one on each finger....I love doing this, Phil's family apparently never had any fun at meal time, and he is always appalled when I do it! LOL Leave it to me to appall someone!

Paul...NO Boones Farm! I have 3 bottles of champagne, and some sparkling cider for the kiddies and the teetotalers.......
a little scotch for the hard-cores......
See, if I get 'em all tanked up, they won't notice if my cooking stinks!

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by Denise Escola
When I lived in Flagstaff Mmy neighbors horses used to get out. Suprising coming outside one morning and finding stock in my front yard.

When I bought the land on which I later built my house I was particularly attracted by a HUGE Spanish Oak tree at which, when the time came, I held a thinly-attended burial service for my precious 17-year-old kitty. The earth is mostly hard-packed rock here and, as a friend and I were stabbing away trying to make a decently constructed grave, we heard a noise and turned to find a small herd of longhorn cattle moseying up on us. I had heard that cattle would walk away from you if you approached them so, with my friend tugging at my sleeve, I decided to try to drive them away. It might have been smarter just to let them be but as I looked at the area around them, us, the kitty grave, and the tree, I noticed a well-worn trail that they must have been using as a short cut for a long time.

I also looked at the enormous span of the pointed horns on the lead cow. Must have been 5 feet, anyway, (any fishermen out there?)

I stood slowly and took a step toward them. Then another. Then another. Some experiment...Just WHERE had I heard that? I took a few more steps and, luckily, the lead cow turned and took her party off to try a different path....

I'd forgotten all about it until all this talk of crazed livestock came up...
I wonder now why I just didn't throw one of the millions of rocks that are the only natural resource on my property.

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by justmestace
Just one on each finger....I love doing this,

I used to do it with grapes...... helps to have pointy fingers...

 

[videogal1]

12687 and 610

Originally posted by paulcrsb
We've cruised with Beano and his family three times

Paul

Is that ol' Beano C?

 

[dobelover]

Lynda and Cash - What cruise line will you be on next week, I can't remember.

 

[WDWLVR]

Originally posted by WVMD
Hmmm - all this food talk - has made me hungry.... better go grab a bite before the cafeteria closes

Mary - sent you a PM!

Virgil
TFD

Hey snuck a T.O.P without realizing it.... Not a very good pirate.... wasn't keeping track of the count....

Virgil - got your pm and sent one in return.

GaRry - sent you a pm as well.

Sad day in Nascar as a plane belonging to the Hendrick organization went down killing all aboard. One of my favorite drivers Terry Labonte is from the Hendrick organization. Very sad indeed.

 

[Dancind]

Originally posted by justmestace
What did I forget????

Dressing/stuffing? My Mom always made the best corn bread & sage stuffing.

For several years, we had home brewed pumpkin beer at Thanksgiving, but DH is not brewing any more. I just found something that might work at our wine store. A winery here in NM makes fruit wines similar to the ones I liked in FL. I bought a bottle of cranberry wine to try out before turkey day.

 

[kpros]

Has anyone seen an inexpensive, small Xmas Tree with battery powered lights. I know some have been looking at the Telefloral tree. I guess I'm looking for something that could be inexpensive enough to toss at the end of the cruise if we didn't want to carry it home.

I've seen a couple of 2 foot, lighted, battery powered trees, mostly with white lights on the Internet. Just wondered if anyone else had seen anything.

Ken

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by justmestace

Let's see:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Gravy
Rolls
Relish Tray.....lots of black olives to stick on the tips of my fingers!
Jellied Cranberry
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

What did I forget????

B U T T E R R R !!!!

 

[dobelover]

Originally posted by Dancind
Dressing/stuffing? My Mom always made the best corn bread & sage stuffing.


We also have sauerkraut with our thanksgiving dinner.

 

[videogal1]

Any idea which night in the dinner rotation is Christmas dinner?

Lumiere? (I never did figure out how to figure that out...)

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by kpros
Has anyone seen an inexpensive, small Xmas Tree with battery powered lights.

Ken

Take a look at www.collectionsetc.com I just got a Christmas decoration catalog from them...everything is $14.95......

 

[jhemond]

Originally posted by WDWLVR
We have been determined from day 1 to go on this cruise, but we bought the insurance just because I feel like if we didn't something would happen and it is just to money to gamble with.

We've already discussed that no matter what happens we are going. Mark's grandmother is getting up in years and her health has been failing. I do think this will be the only time we actually do the holiday away from home. The guilt from the in-laws is already setting in and I'm sure it will get worse before it gets better. Its harder work wise as well. That's why this cruise will be special.

So Stacey you might be a mean mom (not!), but I'm the mean DIL taking her first born away from her at Christmas.

That sounds like my MIL. Her comment was that my DH should spend Christmas with his "family". What does she think I am??

My family is ok with it. My grandmother died in February of Burkitts Lymphoma (it's a VERY rare form of Leukemia). She didn't get sick until just after Thanksgiving last year. We just thought she had the Flu. She finally got so bad (she refused to go to the doctor's) that my mom had her admitted to the hospital. Two days later she was diagnosed with leukemia. It was up and down from there. At the beginning of February came the crusade to get my brother home from the ship so he could say goodbye to our grandmother. She knew she wouldn't make it. She told my mom the weekend before she was admitted to the hospital that if she went she wasn't coming home.

Anyway, Christmas was HER holiday. She LOVED Christmas. She got all of us - her 3 married kids, 4 married grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren - although my brother wasn't home in 2003 (he's in the Navy and he was out on the USS Enterprise at the time). We have around 18 people (17 this year) at my parents house all talking at once and messing around (we have some jokesters in the family). My grandmother used to go all out with presents so much so that they filled half my parents living room. So, we decided that this year would be really weird. My mom said she doesn't really want to be home for Christmas anyway - they'll go down to Virginia Beach to my brother, SIL and neices house. My Nanny dieing was what sealed the deal on the cruise for us. We were still debating it until then.

Sorry to bore all of you with my sob story. Just thought I'd tell you. I miss her like crazy, and I've been thinking about her a lot lately, so I thought I'd tell you about her.

 

[Cruisin'goose]

Originally posted by justmestace
Beeeee Careful, GaRry!!!!


I usually don't do Thanksgiving, our friend Phil usually does it at his house. He's building a new house, that will be done around Christmas time...so I have to do the bird!!
I'm a little rusty...
Let's see:
Turkey
Mashed potatoes
Sweet potatoes
Green Bean Casserole
Gravy
Rolls
Relish Tray.....lots of black olives to stick on the tips of my fingers!
Jellied Cranberry
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

What did I forget????

Diana...you asked a while back about Coconut Creme Pie...I love it! I actually love anything with coconut in it, except drinks. Go figure!

Now I made myself hungry....maybe I should go see if the cafeteria is open........

Stacey where is the pecan pie?frozen ambrosia? cranberrie relish?
looks good.
We have to ham and turkey as the resident turket aka DH doesn't like turkey.

 

[kpros]

Thanks Lynda

It doesn't say anything about battery power so I will E-mail them to make sure.

Ken

 

[videogal1]

Originally posted by videogal1
Take a look at www.collectionsetc.com I just got a Christmas decoration catalog from them...everything is $14.95......

Try #83011.