Really I don't feel so busy that I haven't got five minutes to sit down and blog... but my last post was when, September? I guess I'm filling those precious free moments with other activities. This weekend for example I completed the second of two tables that Angelines is making for the bar. I was put in charge of deccorating them. Between table one and two, I also laid pavers in a section of our patio. Oh and we took a family weekend away with abuela and my sister Lucy came for an eight-day visit, too! Of course there have been the usual, more mundane daily activities that also keep me away from my blog: cleaning the bar and the house, cooking, overseeing homework, reading with Em, walking Norte, correcting work from the academy... Still, I honestly don't know how it is that Thanksgiving is this week! Where does the time go?
As always, we'll be celebrating Thanksgiving this year on the Saturday after. I've got my turkey ordered and I'm thinking of doing some fancy cooking I saw on a French cooking show we sometimes watch. I need to see if I can find the recipe, but it looked like an amazing way to cook turkey. I cannot, however, part with my tried and true stuffing recipe or traditional pumpkin pie. ;)
This week I'll be prepping making the pie crust and also the veggies for the stuffing ahead of time and freezing. My roasted pumpkin is already weighed and frozen. ;) I am only slightly worried about the size of our newly acquired refridgerator and freezer. In the past we've had two refridgerators (both came with the house) and although they were dinosaurs that were probably extremely inefficient, it was very useful at this time of year to have a lot of space for food storage. I don't know what I'll do with my turkey carcass, for example! I've always made broth with half and frozen half to make fresh broth around April... I am pretty sure there won't be room for that in our new freezer.
Guests this year are my true blue Thanksgiving fans plus a few new additions. I'm most excited to have a fellow American: a language assistant from NYC living in Estepa. :) I'm happy and excited to welcome a displaced compatriot into my home for the holidays and equally happy and excited for her to meet my exceptional friends. :)
Angelines has just come home and I was waiting for her to have dinner... all this talk of food has got me even hungrier!
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| Table 2: completed today :) |
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| At the beach in Huelva on our weekend get-away. |
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| The whole crew...minus yours truly, the photographer. |
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| Table 1: our logo. |
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| Beginning pavers |
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| Finished...but not yet cleaned. |
