Thanksgiving Plans
Nov. 15th, 2020 08:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedwords At the beginning of the month, J and I talked about how we would do thanksgiving this year. In the past, if we hadn't driven several hours to see our extended families, we'd get together and make a thanksgiving. J would make the pies and the green bean casserole, while Lar and I would prep and bake the turkey in the big oven in the ADU then do the rest of the side dishes here in the main house. (A thanksgiving for six people that was too large to contain to just one house!)
We're going to do a variation on that, still using all of the ovens we have available. We decided to do a simple thanksgiving this year, and ordered a pre-made meal from the grocery store and pies from a local bakery. B will pick it up the day before during 'senior hours', and then the reheating will be divided between the households; he'll drop off the items we will reheat on our front porch, and then J will deal with the rest. She's also getting the pies 'contactless delivery' directly from the bakery to her house.
Day of, everyone reheats everything with a planned dinner time, then we take half the turkey and the reheated dishes to their place and leave it outside their door. At the same time, we'll pick up our half the pies and reheated sides from their place. Everyone will eat in their homes -- we'll get on zoom later, and share a piece of pie and glass of wine together, the way we have done for birthdays this year.
It's not the same as all eating together, but it's as close as we are going to get this year. I'm looking forward to it.
We're going to do a variation on that, still using all of the ovens we have available. We decided to do a simple thanksgiving this year, and ordered a pre-made meal from the grocery store and pies from a local bakery. B will pick it up the day before during 'senior hours', and then the reheating will be divided between the households; he'll drop off the items we will reheat on our front porch, and then J will deal with the rest. She's also getting the pies 'contactless delivery' directly from the bakery to her house.
Day of, everyone reheats everything with a planned dinner time, then we take half the turkey and the reheated dishes to their place and leave it outside their door. At the same time, we'll pick up our half the pies and reheated sides from their place. Everyone will eat in their homes -- we'll get on zoom later, and share a piece of pie and glass of wine together, the way we have done for birthdays this year.
It's not the same as all eating together, but it's as close as we are going to get this year. I'm looking forward to it.
