Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,family,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,hot mess,not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , add a commentHappy Buy Nothing Day!
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:
Thanksgiving Thank You Thursday 24 November 2011 10:21 am
Posted by Tracy in : cross-posting,meta,thank you Thursday,writing , add a commentAnd but so first and foremost, readers, thanks for checking out my blog this Thanksgiving. Extra bonus thanks to repeat visitors, and gold stars on those extra bonuses for thoughtful comments both on this blog’s pages and via email. I know it’s kinda corny, but I really am thankful for this blog, for many of the same reasons I am grateful for writing, as I posted over the weekend on Open Letters.
What else? Well, I am still grateful to Peter for showing me Written? Kitten! because it is simply fantastic and has made this second half of NaBloPoMo entirely more do-able and fun. Yay for kitty pictures! And yay (again) for writing! Going through my old Open Letters missives because of the “Writing” meta-post, i found a few other items I expressed gratitude for: friends old and new and not yet met, the Internet (in part for helping me keep in touch with said friends), the dream of a punk rock teahouse of my very own, pasta, green beans, soccer, compassion, flowers, rain (both for helping plants grow and for pausing now and then so it’s easier for me to get out and play—although this has not been the case in NYC for a few days; it’s been positively Oregonian!), my uterus, the absence of tobacco smoke, not having dog poop in my garden, even procrastination, stress, and mad cow disease (because I love me some black humor irony, yes I do).
I also love the more garden-variety humor of time spent with family and friends, which is the plan for today: by the time this post automagically appears online, I will be at my brother Piett’s place in Vermont, preparing or getting ready to prepare a feast of epic proportions. It’s not quite a cast of thousands, but it might feel that way depending on how creative Piett and Michelle are at rearranging their furniture…. It will be an adventure, pretty much no matter what. I am reminded of an African proverb I heard quoted at a Food Day event last month:
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go with others.
Here’s wishing all of us luck on all our endurance events this Thanksgiving.
Love,
-Tracy
This post appeared on TracyFood briefly on Wednesday morning, thanks to my thumbs and the WordPress iPhone app, which I am still not very skilled at using. (My laptop was busy uploading turducken pics, you see, and I didn’t want to mess with its mojo…)
Wordless Wednesday: Turducken edition (may not be not safe for veg*ns). 23 November 2011 11:20 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food as spectator sport,food snobbery,funny,not even vegetarian,photos,pictures , add a comment
Twitter Tuesday is always a thankful day… 22 November 2011 7:11 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,random,Twitter Tuesday , add a comment…because I get to borrow other people’s brilliance, or humor, or just plain truth. This comment from my friend Ian is a fine example of that last:
ischempp (@ischempp)
There is little in this world more fun or satisfying than putting the finishing touches on a creme brulee
See? Like a magical sitar that only speaks the truth
Monkey Monday: Thanksgiving week continues. 21 November 2011 11:42 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,cooking,diet stress is a health hazard,eating,geekery,health,monkeys,news,nutrition,random,science , add a commentSo I got into the Thanksgiving spirit early with my epistolography yesterday, and I’ve got a few extra gratitude-themed posts planned for later this week (one of which is foreshadowed by a high-larious comic hidden in a link in this very entry!)
I feel like I’m turning into the NaBloPoMo homestretch, and that means I have to be extra-bonus careful not to fall into complacency, especially at the end of this week when I’ll be all distracted by holiday family action. Today I have been all distracted in general but a highlight of that distraction was that I now know I can make pierogies! This changes everything! Ok, not really, but (more…)
