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Tomorrow is Camera Girl\u2019s D-Day.\u00a0 The family comes over for a twenty-six-pound turkey and all the trimmings.\u00a0 I counted up the individual food courses and it came close to thirty.\u00a0 So, this is ridiculous and I asked her if she wants to start cutting back on all this preparation or get the daughters to help and she shook off the suggestion as heresy.\u00a0 Apparently, she lives for this.\u00a0 And I\u2019m glad.\u00a0 I think we all would miss something if she didn\u2019t put this particular menu together in the traditional way that everyone in the family now looks at as the only way to have dinner on Thanksgiving.\u00a0 The grandkids have never known a different menu at Thanksgiving and that\u2019s going back over twenty years for some of them.\u00a0 All in all, that\u2019s an amazing track record.<\/p>\n

Of course, one day things will change.\u00a0 One day the grandkids will start families of their own.\u00a0 And they won\u2019t be able to come to our house every year.\u00a0 Or maybe we\u2019ll just get too old to run Thanksgiving.\u00a0 But for now, we live in that golden era where all the grandkids think this regime is eternal.\u00a0 And I\u2019ll let that be the party line.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow we\u2019ll gather for the feast and sit down at 2pm.\u00a0 I\u2019ll have the honor (!?!) of carving the turkey and sitting at the head of the table as pater familias but all the power is vested in Camera Girl as boss of the kitchen.\u00a0 She will be scurrying around making sure that the various dishes are available to people at all sections of the table (or tables, the crowd spills over onto a couple of smaller tables added onto the main table) and truth be told I don\u2019t think she even eats a mouthful of food for the first forty minutes of the campaign.\u00a0 But once the table is completely stocked and everyone has filled their plates for the first time she will settle into her seat and stay there until dessert is needed.\u00a0 And this will be an assortment of home-made pies and other desserts.\u00a0 The only thing I always insist on is the availability of several gallons of good quality vanilla ice cream.\u00a0 Inevitably there will be several other flavors represented; chocolate chip, strawberry, even heretical flavors like cookies and cream.\u00a0 But for me the gold standard is vanilla.\u00a0 It is a pure element, possibly the quintessence of the Thanksgiving dessert.\u00a0 And my grandchildren agree with me vehemently.\u00a0 There was an open revolt one year when vanilla ice cream wasn\u2019t clearly visible on the dessert table.\u00a0 I joined in their cries of protest and Camera Girl was forced to head into the basement to the back of the freezer where the vanilla was hiding.\u00a0 Since then, there\u2019s been no more nonsense about it.<\/p>\n

And after we\u2019ve stuffed ourselves with turkey and fixings and dessert, the grandsons and I will head into the living room to watch our holiday movies.\u00a0 Typically, we\u2019ll bust out the Laurel and Hardy version of \u201cMarch of the Wooden Soldiers.\u201d\u00a0 Afterwards I\u2019ll try to put on one of the versions of \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d\u00a0 I think they feel that the Alistair Sim version is definitive.\u00a0 But we\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n

So, the site may be kind of quiet tomorrow but it\u2019s for a good cause.\u00a0 Happy Thanksgiving to all you folks out there.\u00a0 Enjoy the day.<\/p>\n

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