Coffee's Ready, Come and Sit on the Porch

[Alaskan]

I agree....many over cook & waste. I've always repurposed and eventually, chickens get scraps! Gotta buy them feed anyway, so toss to them. My own garbage disposals -- and they return the favor as eggs!

As little kids my sons would try the.. "can I feed the chickens my (insert "nasty" vegetable) and then eat her egg? Same nutrition, right??"

It cracked me up every time.

And... my answer was always no... they had to eat at least one large bite of the nasty. If they did it happily, that was all. If they made grumpy sounds they had to eat a large portion.

 

[The Porch]

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Jesus is Lord and Christ

AMEN

 

[Messybun]

No, not glutton for some, but yes for spending money on more food than can be eaten in 3 days, all to say we did / had thanksgiving. We have for the last 12yr's gone to a family members home, not always but most years. I have seen food for 30 laid out and there were only 15, watched children and adults feast all day on cookies, candy, snack stuff, then at dinner time pile their plates only to eat 1/4 of it and dump what was left in the compost bucket. I know each of you are much more conservative in these things and not wasteful. All of us on here have each have & had trials and tribulation.

I have, over the last 42yr's, even when all the children were home or all 20 of us are gathered cooked for 2 days the whole turkey dinner menu. For me and this is not judging anyone, we each do what we do and that's what is best for each, but, for me, I am not going to this year. I too LOVE all the leftovers and not cooking for 3 days.

for me, my heart, everyday is a day of thanks, a day of being overwhelmingly grateful for the undeserved blessings I have. I want to spend my day in total gratitude. Not making it about food but about the blessing from my Father.
As we say in our home, "Everyday is thanks giving" but today thanksgiving, is an extra calibration.-



My hens get up at 5:30 even though it is dark out, so I went a head and set the timer at 5:25am and it goes off at 7. Here the suns up at 7:34 am sets at 4:26pm. This little bit of light in the morning wont mess up their natural body clock they are up anyway.

I just can watch the morning news anymore here, fox13, king5, kiro7,komo-- they all say the same thing , same stories. murder, random shooting, stabbing in the park, ,,,, its like a horror story out there. I dont like going to town. I only go when I must, typically only Sunday. but lastly with all of the Dr. appointments between DH and I it is ,,well I guess the new normal.
I love our weather this time of year, not the tropical down pour, but the fog and bright yellow big leaf maples,

praying for you all always,

I absolutely love the way you put that.

 

[CrealCritter]

Neighbor's haybale decorations this year.

Jesus is Lord and Christ

 

[flowerbug]

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Mom eventually boils the carcass for broth.

yes, see that is what i would like to do but Mom here does not like turkey or chicken soup that is homemade. i love turkey and chicken soup made from the leftover stuff. all good to me. so we don't even bring the carcass home. otherwise it would get buried in a garden after being used to make soup.

the leftovers are not around for that long at any place because we all like taking bowls or plates home to have for a few days and a good turkey sandwich with homemade bread is up there on my highlights of the season.

 

[Mini Horses]

Will your mom drink the broth? It can be quite good seasoned nicely. I make & keep several types for cooking or drinking....especially nice if you're sick & can't eat many solids.