Turkey Day

So this is the nine pound Butterball turkey I fixed this morning. We, meaning my husband and I, will fill ourselves with turkey over the next four days or so. What we won't do is eat any of this bird today.

That's because we are going to my in-laws for our "proper" Thanksgiving meal. There we will join my sister-in-law, her husband, and two boys. We will all sit around the table nad partake of my mother-in-law's cooking. I don't know the menu but in previous years it has been turkey, stuffing, yeast rolls, sweet potatoes, broccoli casserole, fruit salad, and custard and coconut cake for desert.

I will be taking along some roasted apples to add to the menu.

I just hope I can stand to be in the house. Something is wrong with my in-laws' television and it has an extremely high pitched squeal which they cannot hear. I can hear it, though, and it hurts my ears terribly. My husband can also hear it but it does not bother him so much. I know it is the TV because the noise goes away when you turn the sound off.

If we'd had a better financial year, we'd have bought them a new TV by now. I think that squealing noise has to bother them unconsiously, even if they can't hear it.

I used to not visit them much when we first married, because my father-in-law smoked and I am allergic. He had a heart attack and gave that up, so visiting was much more pleasant. Of course by then we'd gotten in the habit of not visiting all that much. Not that there really is a need to visit; my husband sees his family every single day. They live across the street, more or less, about a half-mile as the crow flies, on the farm. I can see their house out my window if I crane my neck just so.

So now I don't visit so much because the TV bothers me a lot. I can only hope there is no ballgame on that anyone cares about so the thing can be turned off during dinner. Since I am the only one it really bothers, of course no one else really pays much attention to the noise.

Nobody mentioned that these were the kinds of things you deal with as you get older!