Christmas Plans

[TPFKA@W]

I will be working, Christmas eve, Christmas day, New years eve and new Years day. Thrilling, but someone has to do it.

What about the rest of you?

[BoSoxGal]

I will be at my sister's in the Hudson Valley, NY. It will probably involve church on both Xmas eve and day. I will meet my 2nd great nephew for the first time. We will all pray for my niece who has just entered treatment after falling victim to the pills-to-heroin pipeline. I will see my other niece and my nephew and my cousin's family and my brother.

I am excited to be there for the holiday because this is why I'm moving home - to be close to family.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Dec 20 - wife sings in the choral group at Grace Baptist, Kent
Dec 23 - playing bridge/eating dinner with friends my birthday tradition
Christmas eve - Christmas caroling with kids/grandkids at the homes of folks my daughter "nurse assists" then a family party at the condo assoc center at Aunt Judy's place; 11 pm service at Parkside Church in Bainbridge
The Day: pagan Xmas Ham

[Reality Bytes]

I have today finished work until 4th Jan

Xmas eve - Mother In Law arrives with her dog who hates ours lol babygate will be up to keep them apart- I will be cooking the turkey, starting the gravy and prepping the veg

Xmas Day - finishing the gravy and cooking the veg & opening pressies

Boxing Day - MIL & her dog leave around 9am, Xeno, DIL, grandson & their dog arrive around 10am to stay until 28th - babygate moved to kitchen door to keep grandson out - more pressie opening, lunch will be traditional bubble & squeak, cold cuts & pickles meanwhile Xeno will have a giant Yorkshire pudding, sausages, roast potatoes & xmas gravy.

28th Dec evening - everyone gone home collapse into a heap.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Finished work until 4th Jan???? Never mind Joe/wesw, are we sure that RB isn't GoB?

[BoSoxGal]

What's bubble & squeak???

[kristina]

Dec. 23rd -- close the shop early and go home, start a batch of lemon marmalade
Dec. 24th -- sleep late, putter around the house, finish marmalade
Dec. 25th -- go to friend's house for the day, with an as-yet-unknown number of her clan, eat vast quantities of food, including her exceptionally good homemade mince tarts
Dec. 27-29 -- road trip with my oldest friend to SLO/Morro Bay and back (an annual tradition)
Dec. 30 -- dentist (oh joy)
Jan. 4 -- back to work

[MajGenl.Meade]

What's bubble & squeak???

In my house it's left-over boiled potato slices and cabbage fried to a crispy blackness....

I see from images that other people go to a lot of trouble to make it look nice - like cakes

[BoSoxGal]

I just Wiki'd it. Yes, I grew up eating that, but without the name attached. Yum!

[Sue U]

We're abandoning the frozen sub-tropical Northeast for even-more-tropical Florida, a/k/a America's Dingus, where we will celebrate a traditional Jewish Christmas by eating Chinese food and going to the movies (planned: Star Wars). We will do lots of sitting on the beach, sitting by the pool, sitting by the bar, and generally lying down thereafter. If feeling energetic, we will remind each other to sit the fuck down and have a drink until the feeling passes.

On our way to The Nation's Gross Appendage we are to stop in Charleston, SC and Savannah, GA, to look at History or whatever. On the way back, who knows? It's a road trip.

[kristina]

Which side of the dingus, Sue; east or west?

[Guinevere]

Connecticut with my boyz! Then home for a quiet week while my Swede non-skis with his daughter. I'll need to rest up for when all hell breaks loose for the New Year.

[rubato]

What's bubble & squeak???

What food items do in the hands of a traditional British cook.


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[rubato]

Portland with family per usual. We'll probably scoot out to the coast for a night at the beach house, weather depending after the day of. Christmas eve dinner is traditionally salmon with spuds & peas and salad and christmas dinner is "big duck dinner" with my SILs amazing stuffing and probably kale. Kale hits the spot with a greeezy duck entree. Christmas morn is sleeping late and presents. When the kids 'aged out' of the pageant the visiting relative (us) no longer had to attend services (Episcopalian). It was interesting in that some years there was a christmas dog and once there were bats; I had a pretty religious upbringing but don't recall either in the NT story.

With luck we will get to the Portland zoo so I can commune with my friend "Packy" the first elephant born in the us in 44 years and now a senior elephant citizen at 53.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packy_%28elephant%29

[dales]

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[MajGenl.Meade]

Ah... a light blue Christmas?

[dales]

[Sue U]

Which side of the dingus, Sue; east or west?

East side, yo.

[kristina]

Which side of the dingus, Sue; east or west?

East side, yo.

Enjoy all the sitting!

[wesw]

not sure, but will be home. probably will have a couple extra whipper snappers for Christmas and new years, as their mom will prob be working at the nursing home and my son will probably be re fitting some plant, industrial or food plant, while they are shut for holidays.

gonna get my girl her own full sized classical guitar, not sure if I can afford a Yamaha, but that s the preference, slightly used will be fine.

gonna get parts to fix my old Yamaha too, hopefully. the one I m playing now is ok, a Woods I think, and it s purty, but that old Yamaha is sweet and rich. maybe I ll try gut strings, as I ve never played them before.

any one ever played gut strings? how do they sound?