Thanksgiving Weather Forecast

Turkeys will thaw in the morning, then warm in the oven to an
afternoon high near 190º. The kitchen will turn hot and
humid, and if you bother the cook, be ready for a severe squall or
cold shoulder.

During the late afternoon and evening, the cold front of a knife will
slice through the turkey, causing an accumulation of one to two
inches on plates. Mashed potatoes will drift across one side while
cranberry sauce creates slippery spots on the other. Please pass the gravy.

A weight watch and indigestion warning have been issued for the
entire area, with increased stuffiness around the beltway. During the
evening, the turkey will diminish and taper off to leftovers,
dropping to a low of 34º in the refrigerator.

Looking ahead to Friday and Saturday,
high pressure to eat sandwiches established.
Flurries of leftovers can be expected both days
with a 50 percent chance of scattered soup late in the day.

We expect a warming trend where soup develops.
By early next week, eating pressure
will be low as the only wish left will be the bone.

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At Grandma's House

I like the taste of turkey
Any time throughout the year
But it never
seems to taste as good
As when Thanksgiving's here.

Could be it's all the trimmings
That are cooked with it to eat-
But I think it's
eating at Grandma's house
That makes it such a treat!

Poem by Joanna Fuchs

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Twas The Night Of Thanksgiving

Twas The Night Of Thanksgiving,
But I Just Couldn't Sleep.
I Tried Counting Backwards,
I Tried Counting Sheep.

The Leftovers Beckoned -
The Dark Meat And White,
But I Fought The Temptation
With All Of My Might.

Tossing And Turning With Anticipation,
The Thought Of A Snack Became Infatuation.
So, I Raced To The Kitchen, Flung Open The Door,
And Gazed At The Fridge, Full Of Goodies Galore.
Gobbled Up Turkey And Buttered Potatoes,
Pickles And Carrots, Beans And Tomatoes.

I Felt Myself Swelling So Plump And So Round,
'Til All Of A Sudden, I Rose Off The Ground.
I Crashed Through The Ceiling, Floating Into The Sky,
With A Mouthful Of Pudding And A Handful Of Pie..
But, I Managed To Yell As I Soared Past The Trees....
Happy Eating To All - Pass The Cranberries, Please. ~~unknown

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Homemade Laundry Cleaners

Making your own laundry cleaners is an easy way to save money.

HOMEMADE FABRIC SOFTENER:

6 cups water
3 cups white vinegar
2 cups hair conditioner (any kind, any price)

Mix well, but don't let it foam up

One gallon of fabric softener for only $1.39! That's about two cents an ounce!

HOMEMADE DRYER SHEETS:

Old flannel shirt or wash clothes
Fabric softener

Cut up an old flannel shirt or old wash clothes into strips or squares. Soak material in fabric softener. Throw the strips into the dryer; you can use it over and over.

This recipe costs just a few pennies to make!

HOMEMADE EVERYDAY STAIN REMOVER:

Leftover soaps
Glass jar

Gather up bits of left over soaps, or small hotel soaps you have under your sink or in a closet. Cut the soap into small bits. Put the bits into a glass jar and add boiling water. Mix up and let cool. Use for smaller stains.

Cost of this recipe is FREE!

HOMEMADE HEAVY DUTY STAIN FIGHTER:

1 cup of hot water
1/2 cup of baking soda
1/2 cup of hydrogen peroxide

Mix all three ingredients in a spray bottle. Apply to stain and let set overnight. Put it in the wash the next day and it should get out bigger stains like blood, grass and ketchup.

This recipe costs about 25 cents for a batch of really effective stain remover!

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What Is A Dump Cake?

Dump cake may not have the most flattering name but it is a dessert that many people rave about. The name cake is a little bit deceptive and some people prefer to call dump cake a version of cobbler instead. When people are not praising its delicious taste, they are often celebrating how quick and easy this dessert is to make.

Dump cake is usually a combination of canned fruit, with cherries and pineapples, being some of the most preferred. Fruit is usually drained and combined on the bottom of a baking dish. Next, people add yellow or white cake mix, simply pouring the mix right over the fruit. Recipes vary but most then direct people to add slices of butter on top of the cake mix. When the cake is baked it has a lovely top crust that is buttery over a layer of sweet fruit.

It’s difficult to find dessert recipes that are easier to make than dump cake. With the exception of stirring the fruit, you really need to do very little to assemble this cake. It’s a great recipe for beginning cooks, especially young ones. Even little kids can make dump cake because they usually do not have to measure ingredients. ~~~ from Wise Geek

Recipe:

PUMPKIN - DUMP - CAKE

1 - 20 oz can pure pumpkin
1 - 12 oz can evaporated milk
3 whole eggs
1 cup white sugar
3 tsp cinnamon
1 - 18.25 ounce Betty Crocker Super Moist yellow cake mix
1 C chopped pecans
3/4 C butter, melted Preheat oven to 350. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish.

In a large bowl, mix pumpkin, milk, eggs, sugar and cinnamon until well blended. Spread pumpkin mixture in prepared baking dish. Mixture will be very wet. Sprinkle cake mix evenly on top of the batter. If adding pecans, sprinkle them over the cake mix. Pour melted butter over the top of the cake mix and bake 50 minutes.
Cool Top with whipped cream or ice cream.

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Mallow-Praline Sweet Potato Pie

Makes: 8 to 10 servings

Prep 45 mins Bake 375°F 45 mins to 50 mins Cool 1 hr

Ingredients

1 2/3 cups cooked, mashed sweet potatoes or one 17.2-ounce can whole sweet potatoes, drained and mashed

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup pure maple syrup

1 teaspoon finely chopped crystallized ginger or 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/2 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg or 1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

1/4 teaspoon ground allspice

1/8 teaspoon salt

3 eggs, lightly beaten

1 cup buttermilk

1 recipe Baked Pastry Shell

2 tablespoons butter

2 tablespoons packed brown sugar

2 tablespoons pure maple syrup

1 tablespoon milk

1/2 cup chopped pecans

1 cup tiny marshmallows

Directions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F. For filling, in a large bowl stir together sweet potatoes, granulated sugar, the 1/4 cup maple syrup, the ginger, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice, and salt. Add eggs; beat lightly with a fork just until combined. Gradually stir in buttermilk until thoroughly combined.

2. Place the Baked Pastry Shell on a foil-lined baking sheet on the oven rack. Carefully pour filling into pastry shell. Bake for 30 minutes.

3. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan melt the butter over medium heat. Gradually stir in brown sugar, the 2 tablespoons maple syrup, and the milk. Cook and stir until mixture comes to boiling. With pie on the oven rack, sprinkle partially baked pie with pecans and marshmallows. Carefully pour hot brown sugar mixture over the top. Bake for 15 to 20 minutes more or until center appears set when shaken. Cool on a wire rack for at least 1 hour. Cover and chill within 2 hours.

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Tater Salad

Well, Girl Potato and Boy Potato had eyes for each other, and finally they got married, and had a little sweet potato, which they called 'Yam.' Of course, they wanted the best for Yam.

When it was time, they told her about the facts of life. They warned her about going out and getting half-baked, so she wouldn't get accidentally mashed, and get a bad name for herself like 'Hot Potato,' and end up with a bunch of Tater Tots. Yam said not to worry, no Spud would get her into the sack and make a rotten potato out of her! But on the other hand she wouldn't stay home and become a Couch Potato either.
She would get plenty of exercise so as not to be skinny like her Shoestring cousins.

When she went off to Europe, Mr. and Mrs. Potato told Yam to watch out for the hard-boiled guys from Ireland. And the greasy guys from France called the French Fries. And when she went out west, to watch out for the Indians so she wouldn't get scalloped.

Yam said she would stay on the straight and narrow and wouldn't associate with those high class Yukon Golds, or the ones from the other side of the tracks who advertise
their trade on all the trucks that say, 'Frito Lay.' Mr. and Mrs. Potato sent Yam to Idaho P.U. (that's Potato University) so that when she graduated she'd really be in the Chips.

But in spite of all they did for her, one-day Yam came home and announced she was going to marry Tom Brokaw. Tom Brokaw! Mr. and Mrs. Potato were very upset. They told Yam she couldn't possibly marry Tom Brokaw because he's just.... Are you ready for this? Are you sure?............................

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A COMMON TATER!

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Family Ties

Family Ties are precious things
Woven through the years,
Of memories of togetherness,
Of laughter, love and tears.

Family Ties are cherished things,
Forged in childhood days,
By love of parents, deep and true,
By tradition, by family ways.

Family Ties are treasured things
And far though we may roam,
The tender bond with those we love
Still pulls our heart towards home.

Author Unknown

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Our Annual Dementia Test

It's that time of year to take our annual senior citizen test.
Exercise of the brain is as important as exercise of the muscles.
As we grow older, it's important to keep mentally alert. If you don't
use it you lose it! below is a very private way to gauge your loss or
non-loss of intelligence.

Take the test presented here to determine if you're losing it or not.
The spaces below are so you don't see the answers until you've made
your answer.
OK, relax, clear your mind and begin.

1. What do you put in a toaster?

Answer: 'bread' If you said 'toast', give up now and do something else.
Try not to hurt yourself. If you said 'bread' go to question 2.

2. Say 'silk' five times. Now spell 'silk'.
What do cows drink?

Answer: Cows drink water. if you said 'milk' don't attempt the next
question. Your brain is over-stressed and may even overheat.
Content yourself with reading more appropriate literature
with lots of pictures. However, if you said 'water. proceed
to question 3

3. If a red house is made from red bricks and a blue house is made
of blue bricks and a pink house is made of pink bricks and a black
house is made of black bricks, what is a green house made from?

Answer: Greenhouses are made from glass. If you said 'green bricks'
why are you still reading these ????
If you said 'glass' go on to question 4

4. It's twenty odd years ago, and a plane is flying at 20.000 feet
over Germany (If you recall, Germany at that time was politically divided into
West Germany and East Germany) Anyway, during the flight, two
engines fail. The pilot, realizing that the last remaining engine is also
failing, decides on a crash landing procedure. Unfortunately the
engine fails before he can do so and the plane
fatally crashes smack in the middle of 'no man's land' between
East Germany and West Germany. Where would you bury the
survivors? East Germany, West Germany, or no man's land?

Answer: You don't bury survivors.
If you said ANYTHING else, you're a dunce and you must stop. If you said,
'You don't bury survivors' proceed to the next question.

5. Without using a calculator - you are driving a bus from London to
Milford Haven in Wales. In London, 17 people get on the bus. In
Reading, six people get off the bus and nine people get on. In Swindon,
two people get off and four get on. In Cardiff, 11 people get off
and 16 people get on. In Swansea, three people get off and five people
get on. In Carmathen, six people get off and three get on. You then arrive at Milford
Heaven. What is the name of the bus driver?

Answer: Oh, for crying out loud!
Don't you remember your own name? It was YOU !!!

Now if you pass this along to your friends you need to pray they
do better than you. p.s. 95% of people fail these questions.

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Burma Shave

HISTORY OF THE BURMA SHAVE SIGNS IN AMERICA:

America in the 1930's was torn by the Great Depression. Spirits were low.

But here was a little company brightening the countryside with cheerful rhymes...and at the same time advertising their product.

The signs brought a lightheartedness to a nation in hard times.

Burma Shave (Shaving Cream) signs the were so much fun to look forward to when traveling on roads across the United States.

DRIVING DOWN MEMORY LANE
with Burma Shave signs!

Do these bring back any old memories?
If not, you're merely a child.
If they do - then you're old as dirt...

SHE WILL
FLOOD YOUR FACE
WITH KISSES 'CAUSE YOU SMELL
SO DARN DELICIOUS
Burma Shave

THIS CREAM MAKES THE
GARDENER'S DAUGHTER
PLANT HER TU-LIPS
WHERE SHE OUGHTER
BURMA-SHAVE


DON'T LOSE YOUR HEAD
TO GAIN A MINUTE
YOU NEED YOUR HEAD
YOUR BRAINS ARE IN IT
Burma Shave

SHE EYED HIS BEARD
AND SAID, "NO DICE
THE WEDDING'S OFF-
I'LL COOK THE RICE"
Burma Shave

CAUTIOUS RIDER
TO HER RECKLESS DEAR
LET'S HAVE LESS BULL
AND MORE STEER
Burma Shave

LISTEN BIRDS
THESE SIGNS COST MONEY
SO ROOST AWHILE
BUT DON'T GET FUNNY
Burma Shave

THIS WILL NEVER
COME TO PASS
A BACK-SEAT DRIVER
OUT OF GAS
Burma Shave

FOLLOWING TOO CLOSE
WAS A LOT OF BUNK
TILL THEY PULLED HIM
FROM SOMEONES TRUNK
Burma Shave

USE THIS CREAM
A DAY OR TWO
THEN DON'T CALL HER
SHE'LL CALL YOU
Burma Shave

THE MIDNIGHT RIDE
OF PAUL FOR BEER
LED TO A WARMER
HEMISPHERE
Burma Shave

DON'T STICK YOUR ELBOW
OUT SO FAR
IT MAY GO HOME
IN ANOTHER CAR
Burma Shave

DOESN'T KISS YOU
LIKE SHE USETER?
PERHAPS SHE'S SEEN
A SMOOTHER ROOSTER!!
Burma Shave

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Conversations In 1955

'I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $20.00.'

'Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $2,000.00 will only buy a used one.'

'If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. A quarter a pack is ridiculous.

'Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging a dime just to mail a letter?'

'If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.'

'When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 29 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.'

'Kids today are impossible. Those duck tail hair cuts make it impossible to stay groomed. Next thing you know, boys will be wearing their hair as long as the girls.'

'I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more. Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL of DAMN in it.'

'I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts
preparing for it down in Texas.'

'Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $75,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.'

'I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.'

'It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are
having to work to make ends meet.'

'It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.'

'Marriage doesn't mean a thing any more, those Hollywood stars seem to be getting divorced at the drop of a hat.'

'I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.'

'Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to congress.'

'The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.'

'There is no sense going to Lincoln or Omaha anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $15.00 a night to stay in a hotel.'

'No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $35.00 a day in the hospital it's too rich for my blood.'

'If they think I'll pay 50 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

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