Thanksgiving Holiday Pictures

I have to admit... I didn't do much for the Thanksgiving holidays.

And I hate to admit... I am not the biggest gung-ho fan of the holidays, either.

But I did take a few pics... Not as many as I usually do, but just a few.

I actually bought fresh flowers for the coffee table... Just the bit of the diva in me coming out, babes!

I love Alstroemeria... They come in such a huge array of colors and they are dirt cheap!

My cat Oscar-Tyrone was terribly shocked that I was actually at home all day for a few days.

He had a perplexed look on his face most of the time. I thought he was going to say, "Um, LadyLee, shouldn't you be at work right now?"



He likes to watch TV alot these days (what IS up with THAT!), so that kind of made him feel better about my being home.


That is, until, I would interrupt him with a kick ever so often...

He'll be alright.

I also made my gumbo.

Took me doggone 6 hours to make that ish. Took me a good hour to clean up my kitchen and restore it to order. Took 2 days to get the gumbo smell out of my house. I made enough to freeze. Let's just say I should be straight until the fourth of July (if I can keep folks from coming over, looking in my deep freezer, and screaming "Ooooh LadyLee, lemme have a quart!!").

(Gotta put a lock on that freezer!)

I made the Infamous Hen-Dog his own special pot, since he don't eat the swine! He likes beef sausage (uggh!). Me, I gotta have plenty pork sausage in my gumbo. He better be careful that I don't trick him (Nah, I'd never do that, LOL!)


Anyway, I took a couple of quarts over to Grandma's house for Thanksgiving dinner. We placed it in one of those old, OLD serving bowls that Grandma bought back in the 1960's, long before I was even born. Funny how she breaks out the old serving dishes every holiday...



The fam destroyed the gumbo... I shoulda brought over more of it!

The turkey was the bomb!!

As you can see, we don't fool around with decorating the turkey, or doing all that fancy ish. Throw that sucka on a platter so we can go head on and eat.

Grandma makes the best giblet gravy in the world. I almost asked her for the recipe, Chele, but um, Grandma is even more bootleg than myself, and I didn't want to confuse you, hon!



As always, I was happy to see my uncles.



And I met my new cousin, my Uncle Tweet's first grandson, Richard.



Now, peeps want to call him Lil' Richard... but um, forget that.

It is too weird to see that my Uncle Tweet has grandkids now. I still think of my uncles and auntie as being in their 30s, even though I am in my thirties... I was always remember them from when we were all MUCH younger!



And guess who else I saw...

My brother, Milk and Cookies!!!



Now I haven't seen the boy in over a month... He is stationed an hour away, but can't seem to find his way home. (He has a new girlfriend... I wonder if that has anything to do with it?)

He also has a new set of rims on his car. I found them interesting.


I was a bit perturbed by that. I thought he could do something better with his money! But you know how we all were when we were that age. ~sigh~


He was especially upset that I am riding around in my Zoom-Zoom, sans the front passenger side hub-cap.



As far as I'm concerned, if I don't need a hubcap for the car to roll, then screw it. As long as my car gets me from point A to point B...

It's all good.

This makes me feel as if I'm getting old. Oh how I yearn for the days when I was young, and had dreams of having a "tricked-out" car!

(Yeah right!)

I'm looking for a set of hubcaps right now... Haven't seen any that I like. All I know, like I told Milk and Cookies, I ain't spending thousands of dollars for no doggone rims, and that's that!

So that's it for me. The Holidays are normally a difficult time for me, some years good, some years disastrous. It's a time that I have to be on guard against being caught up in family drama with my Mama, etc... And I don't like that. I like to be at ease and I like to be myself.

But like I said, I have good and bad years. I just hope to make it through without a scratch.

I hope and pray my 2006 holidays will go well... and I hope the same for you, too!