Covid Thanksgiving, a prelude to Covid Christmas and New Years

 It is the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Two days ago we had our Covid Thanksgiving and in a month we will have our Covid Christmas. What do you ask is a Covid Thanksgiving or a Covid Christmas, well all you future people who don't remember Covid, like all of us who didn't remember the Spanish flu of 1918-1919, or even the ones like me who thought they did here is a primer on Covid 19. Some other day we will go into the parallels between the two like when the orange raccoon made masks a political issue killing thousands and we'll compared it to the Spanish Flu when wearing a mask was considered not being manly, a sign of weakness in Hollywood and the nation. It also killed thousands. 

Anyway Covid 19 stands for Corona Virus 2019. It is not the nineteenth Corona Virus like that idiot Tucker Carlson on Fox new said. Future people, if you don't know who he is don't worry, he was a hack who said things just to rile up the masses. There are usually no facts to back up his claims much like the orange raccoon's ranting about voter fraud in the 2020 election. (Off topic further, that was a scary couple of days after the election when it looked like he might win.) Now a Corona Thanksgiving is a Thanksgiving much like the traditional one, except you have it with just your immediate circle of family. We four let a fifth in and were going to admit a sixth or seventh and pray that our good intentions didn't kill someone. We ended up with five. Teri premade the stuffing, the only reason I know to eat turkey. As we all know stuffing outside of the bird is a waste of time and called dressing. And eating an unstuffed bird, Turkey or chicken is also a waste of time. Teri used chicken broth to baste the turkey. My mother used to put all of the innards in some water with an onion and  carrot, I think and use that. The only thing Teri wants to do with the innards is roast them and give them to the dogs. I consider that a waste, but if you want to stay married, you compromise, so I do.

It's nice to see Teri cross over to the dark side (yes future people we had Star Wars first) after we have been married for so long. Years ago, when we redid the kitchen, I wanted a stove with double ovens. One small, one large to cook small or large meals in. Back then Teri said no. So I settled for a griddle in the middle, which is not easy to use or clean so I don't use it. A few years ago Teri says she would have like to have a stove with two ovens, I just smiled, I've been married too long to take the bait of that one and oh, yes, Teri welcome to the dark side. Teri has also started using Muller time. She scheduled dinner for two and we ate at four. Muller time is usually two hours later then normal time. It's sort of like black time (Nastia's ex-boyfriend David's words, not mine) but without as much style.

last year the girls helping

Nastia and Elena wanted to get drunk for Thanksgiving. So I went out with Nastia and purchased some Smirnoff's hard soda. I think it has about the amount of alcohol as beer, or less. The great thing is they both drink like their mother, usually one and done and I believe this was a one and done day. When I brought it home I gave it to Elena and told her to put as much as she could in the refrigerator until her mother complained that there was no room in there for all of that. Traditions like that I just love. I believe they both opened one. Since Thanksgiving I have seen one here or there, never a bunch, but I also don't see the twelve pack in the refrigerator. Are they drinking without me knowing or did it just get put somewhere I don't see.

Dinner was served about 4pm. It was served on the usual plates we would use. That was a disappointment. I remember back in he 60's Mom would take out the china dinnerware. It made it special. They were white with pink or rose colored flowers on them. I think my mom still has them, but they haven't been used in years. The girls did take out the silver plate (I couldn't afford pure silver silverware when I bought them in the 80's) with their slight tarnish on them to eat with when they set the table. A red table cloth was spread over the usually bare dinning room table top. Five places were set. We served our selves from the kitchen, another sin against tradition I didn't like, but it's a holiday. so don't make waves. Once everyone was seated, no blessing was said. None was needed. I think there was a moment before everyone took a bite of their food where everyone paused, well at least I did and thanked god that we and most everybody we knew are safe and so far healthy. Dinner went quick, it was excellent. The turkey didn't look completely cooked, the top was not brown, but the thigh was loose, so we took it out. Turkey, stuffing, sweet potatoes, herbed white potatoes, carrots and gravy, it was a very good meal. Clean up, Nancy went home early and Thanksgiving was over. Now, oh my god Christmas is coming. It still seems like it should be April or maybe May 2020. I feel like Covid has stolen almost a year from my life.

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