Well anyone else tired of turkey? We had a great time on Thanksgiving. We have not had to feed teenagers for some time now so we may have over bought a tad for Thanksgiving. I was not sure on the consumption aspect of the turkey. You know, there are never enough turkey legs or breast meat. So we had a 4 breasted 6 legged turkey. Actually the turkey was cooked in the oven in the traditional way. While I smoked a breast and 4 legs outside in the smoker. Everything came out yummy!!

The day after Thanksgiving I got up to find that Ian had consumed 3 turkey legs for breakfast! He has become a turkey monster. He does not want candy, pie, cake or any of those traditional kid oriented yummy stuff, nope he wants turkey. We might need to hit up the local market for another bird!

Unlike Ian, I've had my full of turkey for a while. Not that I don't like turkey, I actually like it a lot. But the tradition around here is we eat turkey until it is gone than we eat turkey soup. My wife thinks she is cooking for an army cause we'll be eating turkey soup at least once a week for the next 2 months. I'm not much into turkey soup. Than to add to my troubles the neighbor sent over a big container of turkey soup! Like we need more.

At some point I'll be hearing those immortal words " You never like what I cook " There right up there with " You don't listen to me " Now how do you respond to such comments? I've heard the listen line several times in the past, and believe me even if you quote line for line every word your wife has spoken in the last month you still will lose the argument. I know, I've done it. Heck since I'm always wrong I've learned to pay someone else to tell my wife something. If I said the sky was blue, I'd be corrected. However, if a stranger said the sky was blue, well you get the idea.

We have started decorating for Christmas. Yes I agree it is to early. However, since it takes us so long to decorate, no sooner do we finish up we have to start putting away again. So this year we thought we would like to enjoy the decorations a few days. We left the lights out on the roof line since last Christmas. My father would of bugged me all year about that. You should take those lights down, he would say. Actually it would of been more sinister sounding. I wrote the PG version. Back in the childhood days the lights would come up from the crawl space ( trap door in hall closet ) than laid out on the living room floor. Than one by one each C9 bulb would be checked until the burned out one was located and the lights would come on. Than they would be stapled to the eaves of the house. Only to be removed, boxed up and placed in the crawlspace a few short weeks later.

Nope not here. They were stapled up last year and left to bake in the desert sun. Of course last year the lights were red and blue. This year because of the bleaching effect of the desert sun they are mostly white with the occasional red or blue bulb. See, you don't need to take them down, they look like new.

We're counting down the days..........