{"id":276,"date":"2016-11-18T18:31:30","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:31:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2016-11-18T18:31:30","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T00:31:30","slug":"notice-of-absence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/2016\/11\/18\/notice-of-absence\/","title":{"rendered":"Notice of Absence"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is about to happen again.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a table you can’t see behind the people on the right of the picture below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year both tables will be almost full; I’m expecting 17 or 18.\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore we will be, from yesterday when it started, preparing for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Turkeys and ham are in-house now.\u00a0\u00a0 More groceries will be fetched tomorrow (and Monday.)\u00a0\u00a0 And therefore I will not be sharing any new news on the new book because there won’t be any new news because I will be chopping, dicing, slicing, sauteeing, mixing, and otherwise prepping components.<\/p>\n

\"thanksgiving-gathering-table\"<\/p>\n

In order to be sure that we don’t run short of anything (everyone can have as many servings as they like of everything) there’s massive overproduction.\u00a0 Followed by a day of frantic packaging of leftovers from fridge to freezer storage.<\/p>\n

The menu has grown over the years from the days when two couples were quite happy with turkey, dressing, gravy, and pumpkin pie.\u00a0 Then we had children.\u00a0 Then my mother got involved (she had the house with the room big enough…) And then the others.\u00a0\u00a0 Dishes were added as people offered to bring them, or subtracted if 90% was left at the end of a meal.<\/p>\n

Turkey, dressing, gravy, ham with spiced pear glaze,\u00a0 sauteed sweet potatoes with apples, green bean casserole,\u00a0 spinach and mushroom casserole,\u00a0 corn with onions, peppers, tomatoes,\u00a0 big green salad, homemade (by someone else) cranberry sauce (two kinds, with and without pecans),\u00a0 and various pre-dinner nibbles: celery and carrot sticks, olives (black and green), pickles.\u00a0\u00a0 And desserts, which start with pecan pies (plain and buttermilk-raisin) and pumpkin pies, and include a range of others.\u00a0 This year we’ve been promised an apple torte.\u00a0\u00a0 There may be a chocolate fudge pie.<\/p>\n

\"serving-table-prep-11-26-14\"<\/p>\n

In a year when fewer people show up, like the year these pictures were taken, the second table is used as a buffet layout for the meal.\u00a0 Desserts go on the washer-dryer, just off the dining room.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m going to be very busy, not least because singing two services Sunday morning is between now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving is about to happen again.\u00a0\u00a0 There’s a table you can’t see behind the people on the right of the picture below.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This year both tables will be almost full; I’m expecting 17 or 18.\u00a0\u00a0 Therefore we will be, from yesterday when it started, preparing for Thanksgiving.\u00a0 Turkeys and ham are in-house now.\u00a0\u00a0 More groceries Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-beyond-writing","tag-life-beyond-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}