Thanksgiving baking has begun. I baked four pumpkin pies and two pecan pies today. I tore the bread up for the dressing and chopped the onion and celery. I have my alarm set for 4:00 as I will get up then and put the turkey in the oven. Hopefully I will go back to bed as nothing else needs to be done until 9:00 or so.
I took the cookies up to the Detention Center this afternoon. Afterwards I stopped at Casey’s and paid for the pizza. They had to split the order in two parts as the total exceeded their maximum order. Grateful that is taken care of.
Half of the Detainees will get pizza and a cookie tonight and the other half will get them Friday night. Close enough to be considered a Thanksgiving feast of sorts.
Next up for the Detention Center is the gift card to Walmart that they will get to mail to a person of their choosing in December.
Some guy from the Advocates for Immigrant Rights and Reconciliation reached out to me via text message and wants to chat with me. Not sure who he is or what he does. He had gotten my contact information from the Kansas Reflector Editor. We are going to have a google meeting sometime early next week if I can figure out how to do that.
The car insurance lady that is handling the claim on Kathy’s car reached out to me today. I was struggling to take pictures using their app. Not sure what I was doing wrong but decided it wasn’t worth my time to figure it out. She sent me a different way of sending her photos. I still need to take three more and then I will attempt to send them to her. If that fails, they will send someone out to actually see the car in person. I probably ought to get some bids to fix the car before I accept their offer. Not sure how to do that but I will figure it out next week.
I think I checked everything I am making tomorrow and made sure I have what I need to make it. Not sure if any stores are open tomorrow or not. I will fake it at this point and adjust as needed if I did forget something.
I think there are only going to be nine or ten of us eating. Sure wish I could have found some more to come. I am attempting to downsize how much I make but if you know me, you know that is hard. If your plans have changed and you need a place to eat a turkey dinner, please come! We are eating around 1:00.
No plans for the weekend after tomorrow. I may go up to the doings at the old school Saturday. I didn’t get a call to work so I get to go and enjoy this year. Next week is looking pretty free. I do have to go to Topeka on Thursday for an eye doctor appointment.
Trusting the cooking will go smoothly tomorrow morning. I am out of practice cooking and things haven’t been easy lately. I spilled some pumpkin pie stuff on the cookie sheet and on the floor. Oops. Maybe that will be my disaster of the meal and tomorrow will be easy.
Had to dig my floor heater out and use it today. I have felt cold off and on all day. My shingles are doing well. The pain has been much less today and they aren’t weeping today. I think my tiredness is partly from the shingles and partly still from jet lag. I guess I didn’t know shingles causes fatigue along with the itch and pain.
Kathy and I test tasted the pies and they are edible. Trusting everything else I fix tomorrow will be so too.
Grateful to help the Detainees celebrate Thanksgiving in a small way, grateful the pies are baked, and grateful to take this time and remember all that I am thankful for.