"Are You" traveling for Thanksgiving this year? Are you getting tested to do so?

We are staying home and smoking a Turkey with “all the fixings” this year.  For the past 15 years we have had my in-laws and my parents over, but we all decided to call off the gathering this year with the daily new cases so high and hospitals overwhelmed. To me, any traveling is at a higher risk this year, and not just because of the possibility of getting the virus.  If anyone has a wreck, or needs emergency care, it would be awful (more awful than it would normally be).  Stay home and give emergency personnel a break!

rgambs said:

We are also not doing turkey, I am going to smoke a pork butt.

You just don't want to share

Normally we go to my parents but decided to stay home because my brother in laws family will be there (big trumpsters).  My kids helped make the menu, it s gonna be interesting lol.  

OnWis97 said:

mcgruff10 said:

Normally we go to my parents but decided to stay home because my brother in laws family will be there (big trumpsters).  My kids helped make the menu, it s gonna be interesting lol.  

Lucky Charms for Thanksgiving!

Yeah, we would have snickers shoved into mashed potatoes 

F Me In The Brain said:

OnWis97 said:

mcgruff10 said:

Normally we go to my parents but decided to stay home because my brother in laws family will be there (big trumpsters).  My kids helped make the menu, it s gonna be interesting lol.  

Lucky Charms for Thanksgiving!

Yeah, we would have snickers shoved into mashed potatoes 

What’s wrong with that? Then sprinkle some lucky charms on top......yum.  

Also smoking a Turkey breast this year. 

Nope.

Mom’s birthday is day after Thanksgiving, we’re hoping the weather will be good enough one of the days to gather around the fire pit & have a drink, but we aren’t going over for a meal (or going in the house for that matter). 

My sister in law is going to have Thanksgiving this year. Its a tricky situation. My sister in law is a nurse and works with covid patients. My wife is a nurse and does the same. My nephew is a firefighter and 5 of his fellow firefighters have tested positive in the last month. I have traveled all over this country in the last 8 months doing what I do. It is a tricky situation. I feel its best if we all just stay home. The nephew, my sister in law, and my wife have all been tested recently and all is well. I have never gotten a test.

Not quite sure whats going to happen Thursday. My mommy in law at 1st said lets all just stay at home, but now she has changed her mind and wants too see her family. I don't know. I will see what everyone decides in the next few days.

In the meantime, since I am not to sure what will happen Thursday?

I am putting a 21lb bird in the oven today for me and the bride. Just the 2 of us. hahahahah

Gonna be a months worth of leftovers.

OnWis97 said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

My sister in law is going to have Thanksgiving this year. Its a tricky situation. My sister in law is a nurse and works with covid patients. My wife is a nurse and does the same. My nephew is a firefighter and 5 of his fellow firefighters have tested positive in the last month. I have traveled all over this country in the last 8 months doing what I do. It is a tricky situation. I feel its best if we all just stay home. The nephew, my sister in law, and my wife have all been tested recently and all is well. I have never gotten a test.

Not quite sure whats going to happen Thursday. My mommy in law at 1st said lets all just stay at home, but now she has changed her mind and wants too see her family. I don't know. I will see what everyone decides in the next few days.

In the meantime, since I am not to sure what will happen Thursday?

I am putting a 21lb bird in the oven today for me and the bride. Just the 2 of us. hahahahah

Gonna be a months worth of leftovers.

Either that or one amazing eating challenge.

So when I told a good friend I was cooking a 21lb bird for the 2 of us?

His response?

Let me guess you are also cooking 75lbs of potatoes and 25lbs of cranberries?

Fact is, everyone knows I love cooking a Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone on this board knows for the last almost 20 years that SPEEDY goes all out on Thanksgiving and Christmas as far as the feast goes. I enjoy it. Whether it be feeding 6 people or 16 people, I have no problem cooking the feast.

I was not going to let covid ruin this for me. Its already turned all our lives into Hell.

Im cooking a feast today, and I will have tons of leftovers. And all is GOOD in my world, at least for a day.

mfc2006 said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

OnWis97 said:

SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

My sister in law is going to have Thanksgiving this year. Its a tricky situation. My sister in law is a nurse and works with covid patients. My wife is a nurse and does the same. My nephew is a firefighter and 5 of his fellow firefighters have tested positive in the last month. I have traveled all over this country in the last 8 months doing what I do. It is a tricky situation. I feel its best if we all just stay home. The nephew, my sister in law, and my wife have all been tested recently and all is well. I have never gotten a test.

Not quite sure whats going to happen Thursday. My mommy in law at 1st said lets all just stay at home, but now she has changed her mind and wants too see her family. I don't know. I will see what everyone decides in the next few days.

In the meantime, since I am not to sure what will happen Thursday?

I am putting a 21lb bird in the oven today for me and the bride. Just the 2 of us. hahahahah

Gonna be a months worth of leftovers.

Either that or one amazing eating challenge.

So when I told a good friend I was cooking a 21lb bird for the 2 of us?

His response?

Let me guess you are also cooking 75lbs of potatoes and 25lbs of cranberries?

Fact is, everyone knows I love cooking a Thanksgiving dinner. Everyone on this board knows for the last almost 20 years that SPEEDY goes all out on Thanksgiving and Christmas as far as the feast goes. I enjoy it. Whether it be feeding 6 people or 16 people, I have no problem cooking the feast.

I was not going to let covid ruin this for me. Its already turned all our lives into Hell.

Im cooking a feast today, and I will have tons of leftovers. And all is GOOD in my world, at least for a day.

Good for you, man. You’ve got to keep doing what makes you happy.

Thanks. And damn right! Whatever makes you happy.

Hope all is well.