Damsel and I are planning to celebrate Thanksgiving at home again today. According to the American Automobile Association, 40 million people will be travelling somewhere or another, so we figure that home is haven from the madness.
While we will be preparing the feast for later, we plan on watching the NFL Thanksgiving Games:Dallas vs. Tampa Bay and Detroit vs. Miami. I think the home teams will win, but Damsel wants the Florida teams to win. We’ll see . . .
In a break from tradition, the NFL has decided to air a third game in Kansas City where they will be hosting Denver. Damsel and I are again split where I think the home team will win and she likes the visitors (well not really, we like San Diego and Oakland over both of these teams). Luckily, we have the satellite and will be able to see this game on the NFL channel; the game is not going to be shown on local TV.
Finally, we’re having the traditional American Thanksgiving feast this afternoon, with turkey, mashed taters, green beans with onions and fennel, Brussels sprouts with pancetta, cranberry sauce, stuffing, gravy and pumpkin pie. I have a couple of Sam Adams Winter Lagers on ice and Damsel has a bottle of Kendall-Jackson Chardonnay (a great California Wine).
OK — enough about that — let’s start the preparations!
Have a very Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.