T-day Countdown

Those of you in USA, got your bird yet? Seems like I’m always late getting mine as I tend to forget I have to let the sucker thaw. I like to give it three or four days in the refrigerator, but sometimes that isn’t enough. I’ll end up poking it a bunch of times to see if it’s even close yet.

Used to be I had a great chest freezer in which I would keep a side of beef among other things. I’d hit those store sales where if you get a certain minimum in groceries, they would give you a huge discount on the bird, and do it twice. Once for Thanksgiving, and once for the freezer. It could take me most of a year to get around to using the freeze bird, so it worked out well. Now there’s too much junk piled in front of an upright freezer, so I can’t even get at it. It isn’t plugged in anyway.

So I’ve got the food to get, cleaning to do, and a book to write. This is why I wish they’d move National Novel Writing Month to January. I don’t do any special cleaning or cooking in January.