Happy Thanksgiving, Don't Forget the Headshot!

So, it's Thanksgiving, and what's going through my head?

Well, it goes something like this:  If the zombie apocalypse goes down in a Walking Dead fashion, then we'll no longer play Taps at funerals.  Instead, we'll play DOUBLE TAPS!

Get it?  Instead of firing rifles into the air as a salute, we'll fire into the dearly departed's head.

Ew.  Happy Thanksgiving.

Hey, I didn't get to sleep until after 4 am last night.  Because of my rededication to genealogy/family history.  We were hugely into it back in the late 1990s, and we've really thrown ourselves back into it.  I think photographing cemeteries did it, really.  Made us want to take another look at our own dead folks.

And boy, has genealogy changed in the past 15 years!

I confess, I am a little bothered handing our family information over to the LDS Church, considering the craziness they get up to with this stuff, but then I remember my husband and my sister were both baptized into that church decades ago.  Any "baptizing for the dead" insanity they were going to indulge in?  They already have.  And they ARE an amazing source of information, and they're generous with it, too.  So score one for the Mormons.

Now, if we could just get people to stop listing dubious connections borne of wishful thinking when it comes to recording familial connections!  I swear, I scream every time I come across yet another child born three years before his parents or another woman bearing children in her 70s because, hey, close enough!

Here, here's someone we can't ID.  Gentleman was probably from the Philly area, appears to be a WWII shot?  I say Philly because this picture was in with my family's stuff, and my family is mostly from the Philly/Camden area.

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Homemade pumpkin pie this year--made from a real, live pumpkin, even!  It wasn't hard, prepping the pumpkin, and I think it's going to be the very best ever.  Hubby made one of his amazing homemade cheesecakes, too.  Here's a pic of last year's:

I expect this year's to be at least as good!

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Back to the genealogy?  I've discovered a treasure trove of truly bad names in my husband's family.  Here are a few:

Voyle
LeRay
DeLone
Arba
Pyrcle

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Not a lot else to say--busy day!  I hope everyone out there has a marvelous and wonderful and peaceful Thanksgiving!

I know, it's SO lame when people do this

But I'm going to post pictures of food because I'm hungry and I want to.  To my credit, this is ALL food that's actually been IN this house and/or in my belly!

Cardamom Tea with Ma'amoul Cookies

Hamburger Dogs--NO, I didn't eat them, they were hubby's

Fabulous Peach Shakes in Utah

Philly Steak with Provolone, Onions, Mushrooms, with Corn and a Brussel Sprout on the side. That's a hollowed out roll, low fat beef, pan seared (instead of oil fried) onions and mushrooms, and low fat provolone.  Oh, and no butter or salt on the corn.

Low cal/carb bread, with broiled chicken, Cabot's low-fat cheddar, and 1.5 slices of bacon. The potatoes are my boy's, and that second, deformed ear of corn sprouted up in our back yard from the bird feed.  Kinda tough kernels, easy to see the difference between feed corn and people corn.  

Grown in our garden maters 

Christmas Sugar Cookies

Homemade Pecan (which I don't like) and personal pumpkin pies (the smaller the pie, the less we eat!).

Ketchup at National Harbor

Funnel Cake Fries at Ketchup.  Talk about a once a year food!

Egg Nog and Brownie with Chambord and Blackberries.  Too Rich.

Much wonderfully tasty produce, all consumed quickly and merrily!

Heidelberg Bakery in Arlington 

Homemade Peanut Butter Cookies

Across the street from Pat's King of Steaks.  Pat's, not Geno's.

Pat's King of Steaks--a "Provi Wit."

Wegmans Bakery

Julienned carrots for pasta

Iced Mochaccino from Mayorga at National Harbor. Mayorga's totally displaced Starbucks for us. Better, and we feel better about corporate.  

Christmas Dinner--the orange stuff is roasted butternut and sweet potato

Thanksgiving Crackers

Thanksgiving Cheese

Farmer's Market Cinnamon Bread

Muscadine Grapes

Dragonfruit

Homemade parmesan cheese crisps (these aren't a lot of calories)

Our Boy's Homemade Birthday Cheesecake

Our Boy's Birthday Cheesecake

Farmer's Market Cinnamon Apple Bread with Irish Butter

Farmer's Market handmade chocolates

For fajitas, tuna sandwiches, and the occasional cheese melt

Maccoun Apple

Rambutan

Star Fruit

Weight Watchers 100 calorie fudge bars 

Dreamfield's pasta with julienned carrots and squash, low-fat chicken sausage,
and homemade cheese crisps. Or the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

And that's all.  That was strangely cathartic.  Like maybe I'm okay with just a sandwich tonight with lots of veggies.  And I have to say, to my credit, that that's 2 years worth of "goodies," not all downed in a decadent month of gluttony.

Hope I didn't bore you to death.  Promise not to do another Calorie Collage for at least a year!

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