Thanksgiving without the pictures

Menu:
Oven Roasted Turkey seasoned with drywall dust
Joint compound and roasted garlic mashers
Blown in insulation stuffing
Hard hat brussels sprouts
# 10 Molly Asparagus

There is nothing like preparing Thanksgiving dinner (even 2 days late) in a construction zone. It gives the meal a flavor all its own.

Guy was working at his usual frantic pace to get the kitchen in working order, once again, so I could cook Thanksgiving dinner. I ran (literally) to Ace Hardware to get him parts they didn’t have. So I went to Home Depot and dragged our neighbor Janet along while we picked up her
long lost wallet.


When I arrived home, it was
time for the turkey to be in the
oven. The construction was still under way. I began preparing the stuffing in the dining room until there was enough room amidst the construction supplies on the kitchen counter.

I had brined the turkey in a cooler in the upstairs bath tub. After all, we have squirrels that could easily open the cooler and cart off a whole turkey, so I couldn’t put the cooler outside. No telling what’s living in the garage. And we don’t use the bath tub anyway since there are no walls around it. After the turkey had it’s bath, it rested in a roasting pan behind the ladder until I had room on the counter.

Eventually the soffet was built, spackles, and the defects in the wall were repaired. The pot rack was hung and the wiring to the plug beside the stove as well as a light switch to the lights over the sink. The kitchen was ready for cooking. 1 ½ hrs late so the cooking plan was changed to the high temp version.

Next the dining room was
cleaned and made ready.









As Guy was finishing rewiring the downstairs bathroom… just because he hadn’t done enough in the early part of the day, the guests arrived.

Alexis came up from Denver. Janet came from next door and brought Peaches, Sonny, and Buster to help clean the floor. Fortunately, I’d removed any construction by products that might harm them and left the floor clean enough to eat from.


Peaches, Sonny, and Buster are clearly neglected and on the verge of abused. It is obvious that Janet never feeds them and they are so love starved… At least that’s what they’d have you believe.

Sonny is normally afraid of Guy. He will occasionally come to Guy if he lies on the floor. But, if he also gives a few snitches of
turkey, it’s a whole different story.

Nothing like a holiday weekend to get a few things done.

Kill count:
2 Thanksgiving dinners eaten (each)
1 compost bin
5 GFI outlets installed
1 light switch installed
1 set track lighting now working
1 soffet installed around wires and gas line in kitchen
1 kitchen wall spackled
1 light fixture rewired
2 ceiling tiles replaced
1 closet painted
1 turkey roasted
1 Furnace rewired
1 Laundry room rewired
1 pot rack bought and hung
1 overhead light rewired
1 roman shade for bedroom and valence made
1 duvet cover made
1 sink repaired
4 trips to Home Depot
1 trip to Ace Hardware
1 garbage disposal rewired

Oh, and there’s another day left!