In which new traditions are tried.
1. The much anticipated pick up of a fully prepared thanksgiving feast. This involves a holiday themed waiting on line. These are traditional for us around Christmas, including the Larson Brothers Bakery and Honey Baked Ham stores. Whole Foods was new for us.
When we arrived home we found the fully cooked turkey to still be frozen. A 30 minute COLD water bath seemed to solve that problem, and now we are wondering whether we conquered the thawing too early.
2. Detroit Lions football, on TV, and they were winning.
3. Thanksgiving power outage. A new tradition for us, although not uncommon for the area. But power outages at our house are just plain uncommon, so it caught us off guard.
Plan A is to drink the coffee before it gets cold and keep the refrigerator closed. The 2 hour projection to power is probably survivable for the food.
Plan B is to try to use the gas stove and cook away. Easy to light the burners, but not sure about the oven with no controls working.
Plan C is to call friends outside the outage area, hope they are home and have room in their oven or refrigerator.
Plan D is to go to work where there is a refrigerator (actually 3) and a stove, and a generator.
Plan E would include trying to get our old rarely used charcoal grill into operation in the rain.
I am hopeful for Plan A as we appear to be the only outage in town.
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