With a little help from my friends

Today's post will be brief.  Then, I'm actually gonna create tomorrow's post, which will be about yesterday.  Are we confused yet?


We received an email from our friend Tim this morning.  I'm gonna post the whole thing here, but Tim requires a little bit of an explanation (actually he needs a great deal of explaining but I'm not going into all that here and now) and I'm gonna make comments in his email.  I'll put my comments in a different font and highlighted in green.  By way of a small introduction to Tim, he is extremely intelligent, and generally funny, though he often seems to be  stuck in the 1960's and 1970's.  He appears to channel e. e. cummings, in that he doesn't use capital letters.  Actually, he doesn't use a lot of punctuation either, so it's probably really that he's just lazy.  He hates computers, but has given in and given up and realizes they are a necessity in today's life.


Okay here's the email:


"on thursday, november 25 we will be having bernice [his mother]  and her friend lucy for thanksmas [Our holiday season which includes Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years.  We usually start celebrating after Halloween but the official holiday does not begin until Thanksgiving and we  continue the hoopla until after New Year's Eve often up to and including the Feast of the Epiphany.] lunch.  my intention its to cook a turkey breast and the event will take place at 1:30.

on friday november 26, the second day of thanksmas there will be a grand and gala feast.  because chef harold may work that day chef bud and i will be in charge of the menu other than desert [He also doesn't spell so well. He means dessert].  i am planning to request that ann make her famous potato salad on thursday, and make enough for both meals.  i think a 55 gallon drum should be adequate.  i could not help but notice at the last festivities that the girls all just got wild [maybe not as wild as we used to, but as wild as we're gonna get at this point in our lives] on champagne, and that is a good thing.   nothing brightens up a party like wild women, so i think a few bottles of bubbly will be appropriate.  perhaps i can find a bottle of wine to serve with the meal [undoubtedly he will find more than one bottle of wine for the meal and so will Bud -- California Cabernet is a staple in our diet]. 

i also noticed the popularity of the fire pit [It's North Carolina.  We can sit outside around the fire pit after dinner and not freeze our arses off.] at last festivities.  the building of the fire will be the responsibility of chefs bud and harold.  i will be responsible for getting better fire starters [who would have guessed there is such a difference in the quality of fire starters].

yabba dabba doo

captain cabernet [his name might have something to do with our diet staple]" 

Some of the things I know Chef Bud will be providing for our Thanksmas meal are:  a Honey Baked ham, garlic and sour cream mashed potatoes, giblet gravy, cranberry-orange sauce, and green beans with prosciutto and pine nuts. So the holiday season begins.  We have a lot for which we are thankful, not the least of which is our friends.