Thanksgiving and other preparations

[sistawendy]

Roasting pan: check.
Meat thermometer: check.
Cranberries: check. (I got them a little early because they do tend to sell out.)
Turkey: ordered. It will be the first one I've ever roasted.
Salad ingredients, wine, etc.: inventory taken, shopping list compiled.

I believe I now have all the bits of paper I need for changing the gender on my birth certificate. I just need to get them signed, notarized, and delivered.

There's to be an anti-Trump protest just a stones throw from my place: Hands Around Green Lake. The lake is 2.8 miles around. Let's see if we can get that many people to hold hands around it. Color me there.

Trump's appointees? Nazis and lackeys and crooks, oh my! I find myself thinking unconstitutional thoughts about him, and wondering if folks in the security services are doing the same. Believe it or not, though, I've been sleeping more or less normally for a few days now. Trump & co. will never be normal, but fear and anxiety sure are now.

Comments

[parityanimal.livejournal.com]

If turkey is frozen, allow sufficient time to thaw in the fridge...and remember to remove the giblets! ;) This reminder is for me more than for you...

I'm sure you'll be fine.

I'm roasting a 13.52 pound turkey myself this year, for the first time in YEARS. In recent years I've always done just a turkey breast, usually boneless, in a slow cooker. Its a nice, lazy, way to go. I have to brush up on my roasting a whole, fairly large, bird skills!

I have roasted a few whole chickens in the interval..one fairly recently even. Maybe if I just think bigger... ;)

[m-cobweb.livejournal.com]

Dressing will be cornbread but maybe a scaled-down version. I'm not sure I'm up to the effort of trying to reproduce my Grandmommy's this year.