Thanksgiving Day -- So Far

My day started with waking to the sound of the washing machine going and Buck grumbling and shuffling around in the laundry room. He came in the room and asked, "Well, you want to go to Home Depot with me? I am tired to dealing with the water leak." I looked at the clock. It was 7:00a.m.

The floor was flooded this morning which required him to haul the cat food, laundry soap boxes, etc., out in the hallway (where it currently still is).  I opted out, due to pie baking duties. He returned over an hour later. Tried three stores, none were open. Hmmmm.....must be a holiday today. 

We are going to #1 daughter's friend's house for dinner, which is where she is having Thanksgiving dinner, and my food assignment was pies. (Per my Maxine calendar: "All it takes is one undercooked turkey and you are the dinner rolls and soda person for life.") Unless I am having dinner here, I am the pie person for life. #1 daughter bought this Pampered Chef apple corer-peeler which she keeps at my house. She's not so dumb. With it at my house, she has a reason to beg off making apple pies, whereas I do not. I started putting this thing together. Next thing I knew, the "equipment operator" honed in on what I was doing and decided to show me how it was done. Eleven apples later, I had enough slices for pie.

Then the "equipment operator" went to the back yard to work on the project he had planned on for the morning: splitting firewood. That homemade yellow monster is affectionately known as "No Problem". Because, when it comes to splitting wood, it is, as the name implies, no problem.