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Why, yes, there is a Green Bay Packer game on Thanksgiving Day. Why do you ask?
>Decking the Halls for Thanksgiving
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Why, yes, there is a Green Bay Packer game on Thanksgiving Day. Why do you ask?
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Why, yes, there is a Green Bay Packer game on Thanksgiving Day. Why do you ask?
>2007 Thanksgiving Menu at Chez OK
>The menu is ready! We think it is, anyway.
Appetizers:
Pickles & Olives ; Husband and Amigo
French Onion Soup; Husband and Amigo
Main Course:
Turkey with Stuffing; Daisy
Sides:
Classic Mashed Potatoes; Husband
Mashed Potatoes a la Joie; La Petite
Sweet potatoes; Daisy
Gravy; Daisy
Steamed Asparagus Sesame; Husband
Packer Beans; Daisy and Amigo
1-2-3 Cranberry Sauce; Amigo
Cranberry Jell-O; Grandma’s famous recipe
Pumpkin & Cranberry Breads; Grandma’s famous recipes
Dinner Rolls; Daisy
Desserts:
Pumpkin Pies and Whipped Topping; Brother and Sister-in-Law
Apple Pie; Grandma and Husband
Beverages:
Wines; your Sommelier, husband
Soda (Various); hosts, others as preferred
Milk; Buttercup
Water; Peanut, Sadie
Coffee, Regular and Decaf; Daisy
Some beverages will be in La Petite’s small fridge
Grandma will bring four folding chairs.
We will eat at 3:00 or after the Packer game.
The Packer game will be broadcast on a radio in the kitchen so that the cooks don’t miss a play. (yeah, like you thought I’d make Thanksgiving dinner and miss a Packer game?!!)
>Good thing I don’t gamble.
>Offices have their football pools. Sportswriters have their contests. We’ve started our own friendly family competition on Sundays, predicting the outcome of the NFL games.
Amigo picks up his schedule binder with the Braille schedules in it, and he reads the list of the day’s games. As he does, I write down our predictions for the winners. When it’s all over, we check the scores and add up our results.
Scores in the last three weeks:
Husband 10, Daisy 9, Amigo 8
Amigo 8, Husband and Daisy tie at 6
Amigo 7, Daisy 5 (Husband was out of town)
Wait a minute. I’m the main football fan in the house! Why do I keep losing? It’s a good thing I don’t play Fantasy Football, with this kind of record.
We’ll see. Maybe today’s my day.
>The LoveSac Quarterback
>Amigo is a sports fan in a major way. He’s my child, so he enjoys pro football and cheers loudly for the Green and Gold any given Sunday. But he’s developed interests of his own, too, beyond the NFL Network that his mother would love to add to the cable package.
On Saturdays, he watches college football. But wait — it’s not as simple as you think.
Early in the week, he finds a web site with the week’s (and weekend’s) college football television schedule. Husband or I sit down at the computer and copy the schedule into the translation software so that it can be embossed, or printed in Braille. Amigo puts the finished schedule in a designated Schedule Binder, and then he’s ready.
On Saturday morning, after squandering a perfectly good hour listening to Car Talk on public radio, he’ll dress, come downstairs, and examine the day’s outlook. He eventually settles into the LoveSac Rocker with his schedule binder on his lap and the remote control by his side and watches as many games as he can. He’ll stick to one game for a while, then switch to another later on. How many games does he eventually watch? I honestly couldn’t tell you the total.
He tells me about on-field drama and big rivalries. He can flawlessly identify the names of every stadium — look out, Jeopardy! When the opportunity presents itself, he takes a half-time computer break to check his email and search for a few game highlights on the web.
Meanwhile, I kind of co-exist in the house. I work on laundry, do any necessary schoolwork, and at times turn off my hearing aids and nap. I trust that he’ll wake me to make supper if he’s hungry.
Husband? Well, he’s working this weekend — on the sidelines of the Packer game.
>Go!! Go!! Yeah!! De-fense!
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Husband took this picture with his cell phone camera at Lambeau Field, that shrine to the sport of professional football. The stadium isn’t the only place where there’s noise on Sunday afternoons: you should hear our den!
>Outstanding Cranberry Muffins
>Ah, a perfect fall day. Leaves raked to the curb, a chill in the air, Packer football on the television, and the clocks set back for an extra hour of sleep. This calls for a fire in the fireplace and home baked goodies.
I pulled a bag of cranberries out of the freezer to make these. Buy the fresh cranberries between now and Thanksgiving and freeze them; they’re a little hard to come by out of season.
1 1/4 cup fresh or frozen cranberries
2 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
3 tablespoons butter
3 tablespoons canola oil
3/4 cup sugar
2 large eggs or 1/2 cup egg substitute
2/3 cup orange juice
3/4 cup chopped walnuts
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Prepare 12 muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray.
Place the cranberries and walnuts in a food processor or blender and pulse until chopped. Set aside.
In a medium bowl, mix flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, and orange peel. Set aside.
In small saucepan, combine the butter and oil and heat until the butter melts. Stir in sugar. (Note: sugar will not dissolve.)
In a large bowl, stir together the eggs and orange juice. Stir in the sugar-butter-oil mixture, then add the dry ingredients and mix until just moistened. Stir in the cranberries and walnuts.
Fill the muffin cups until almost full. Bake for 18 — 20 minutes or until muffins and golden brown. Test for doneness with a toothpick.
Serve warm with a mug of steaming coffee next to a roaring fire in the fireplace. Okay, the coffee is optional, and they’ll still taste good without a fireplace by your side. But really, these are not just for Thanksgiving Day breakfast!
>Carve a Favre
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Amigo’s Pumpkin Design:
Imagine it on a green jersey with golden yellow trim.
It looks like this after dark.
Here’s the pair. The one on the right? The one that looks like it swallowed a tea light? Well, it could be a Broncos fan watching that first play in overtime last night.
Go! Pack! Go!
>The rivalry continues
>What’s harder than driving on the expressway around Chicago during rush hour and road construction? Driving a news truck with “Green Bay” emblazoned on it in huge letters, through Chicago, in the week before the Packers play the Bears.
Yes, husband was on a work-related trip last week that required he drive the news truck through Chicago on his way to his destination. The reactions, let’s just say, were many and varied. The most creative had to be the toll booth worker who asked if he was a spy.
Now that he’s home (and safely, I might add), we can watch tonight’s game in peace and — well, you know that in our house, it won’t be quiet.
>Ah, the glory.
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For the full story of this t-shirt, click here.(Update: I fixed the link. Sorry for the confusion!)
>As seasons change…
>That’s sports seasons, of course. What did you think? You might be sports fan in Wisconsin if even as you mourn the Brewers’ failure to make the play-offs, you get out your Green Bay Packer paraphernalia.
From left to right: Racing Polish sausage, rabbit with cheesehead, Racing Bratwurst, chalkboard mug, and Bret Favre bobblehead. Yes, I expect him to break Marino’s record today. Go! Pack! Go!
Oh, and in case you were wondering, I didn’t forget the Badgers. Go Big Red!!! 37-34; Wow!!
Update: YYYYYYYEEEESSSSSS!!!!! 421!! 421!!! Go Favre!!!
And the latest update: 422!! and the team is 4-0!! Go man go!!!!