And on we go with a new "500" thread . [ram27bat]

Yes one & all this is the new 500 thread! 🙄

Well done, Rambo... just be sure you don't cook the turkey well done. It'll be dry.

No Turkey[-x here MAC, just turkey breast & a couple turkey drumsticks.

Congrats ram.

Ended up mowing the leaves. And the grass. Haven't mowed for 3 weeks and it's been raining for the last two. Need to do the ditch before the leaves get caught in the long grass and clump up to clog the culvert. That can wait for a warmer day.

Justified my call off even more because i am exhausted after that. Still need to cook dinner. Thawed the meat and made balls for tortilla burgers. Blackstone is set up in the garage just waiting for the energy to get off the couch again.

Congratulations on the Turkey Day 500,

Turkeys fattened up on candy corn, yum!

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nice win, Boss!
on to the next holiday 500...

we have roasted turkey every Thanksgiving, but only on that day...anybody make roasted turkey on other days?


what other meals/dishes are one day/year only?

latkes for Chanukkah

NINE

Not sure what I'm doing for Thanksgiving Day. No concrete plans have been made yet. Previous years once and awhile I'd fly back to WI for a week and family visit but I hate flying around the Thanksgiving to New Year timeframe. Prices are high, airlines are packed and weather doesn't cooperate. Past couple of years I save that trip until after New Years when things quiet down. Other years I go to my pseudo in-laws here in MA (dinner at my brother's in-laws. They are family and are one of my adopted MA families).

Sometimes I volunteer to do meals on wheels and deliver Thanksgiving dinners with a couple close friends that do it every year and have a small quiet dinner with them afterwards (another adopted MA family). Work is shut down on Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday after so it's a 4 day weekend for me. Maybe this year I'll start the turkey in the morning and leave it for my son to watch and make the rest of the fixin's. Then and do the meals on wheels thingy and come home to have a quiet and relaxing turkey meal with my son and his girlfriend.

Finally ordered the mulching kit for my mower. When I first bought the mower the kit was almost $400 so I didn't buy one. Now it's $125 straight from Cub Cadet. Leaf mowing works so much better without side discharge.

When I did lawn work at my house, I'd blow the leaves as winter cover into the garden and flower beds and stuff. The rest would get mulched up and shredded by the mower for the lawn. In the spring, I'd rake off the leaf cover from the flower beds and pitchfork the leaf cover in the garden soil for organic matter. I rarely raked most of the leaves. Just ran them over and let the mower chop them up for compost organic matter.

Easier on the back and better for the plants and the soil (lazy man's justification of dealing with the fallen leaves).

A neighbor of mine was adamant on raking them by hand and adamant on how his lawn was mowed (he had a certain pattern he did). I started to help him one year but he was set in his ways. The leaves had to be raked in a certain way, lawn had to be mowed in a certain way. After a few weeks of tying to help, I punted. Can't teach an old dog new tricks and I respected his way of doing his lawn. He was anal on many things but also one of the nicest people you've ever met. Maybe spending time on doing his lawn his way was relaxing therapy even though it was excessively (in my opinion) time consuming and labor intensive.

He did have a nice lawn and he took pride in it so who am I to judge?

My lawn needs to be cut again... and I just don't feel like it. It's been 3 weeks.

30, wc 25.
Snow now, wind later.
Congratulations Ram.

Go ahead and call Pedro. You know that’s where you’re headed….

No lawn to mow. Xeriscape front and pool in back. I'm a layabout

Morning dudes. A nice 56/80 on tap. Meeting some old college buddies for coffee after the morning walk.

You're not entirely wrong... 🤦

But the prices for landscaping in FL are higher than CA. I'll do it myself.

Welcome to Taco Tuesday gang.

Good Tuesday Morning to All! A taco right now would be great Ram.

It's an overcast 60° on the way to just 69° today, maybe some rain.

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I will honor this!=p~