Thanksgiving 2007 in Holmes County

I am so glad that it worked out for me to fly up to Ohio for Thanksgiving! Mom went up Tuesday and I flew up on Thanksgiving morning. I left the house at 5:30 AM and got almost the whole way to the airport when it started to pour. We certainly do need the rain here but the timing wasn't really the best to suit me. Atlantans had much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving morning. Since I flew up on the day of the holiday I was not able to cook anything for our feast so I brought mixed nuts, trail mix and cookies from Trader Joe's as my contribution.

Dinner was the Hummel usual stuff that we've been having every year since way before my 46 year existence. We always have turkey with dressing, mashed taters & gravy and then there's the sweet potatoes, the date pudding, the waldorf salad and the corn. These are the necessary items and if even one is missing, dinner is not complete. We also had deviled eggs and a relish tray with pickles and for dessert there were pumpkin, pecan, and chocolate pies with freshly whipped cream. Dinner was at one aunt & uncle's house and then we decided to go to another uncle's house to see their gang and the new baby. Many years ago, this branch of the Hummel's decided that they would do thier Christmas every other year in Holmes County to allow them to alternate between the in-laws. It's worked well for them but this means that we don't get to see the whole gang. It was really nice that we could go over there and see everyone who couldn't attend our gathering.

I am hoping that someday I will be able to move back to Ohio and be able to host this gathering myself.

College Football & Getting Organized...

Being from Southern California originally and having a pop who was never much into sports, I just never got much into college ball. This weekend proved to be the exception. I watched both the Ohio State and Georgia games simultaneously. Both games were very important games for the teams and both were very low scoring games.

The CEO of the company I work for is a graduate of the team that lost to OSU today (their name shall not be mentioned here but they wear Blue & gold) and the CEO of one of the other Cox Enterprises companies is an Ohio State graduate. To say that they are hard core rivals is putting it mildly! Our CEO even went so far as to have posters created and posted all over the building last week that said the other guy was going to be "singing the blues", oh so sorry sir but that would be you who is singing the blues today! I will most likely be sending you a sympathy card via the interoffice mail system on Monday morning. ;-)

That Georgia also won today was icing on the cake! I hope they continue the streak, it's been rather exciting!

Between the excitement of the games I am working toward getting my home organized and getting some stuff sold on eBay. i've just gone through a bunch of clothes and placed them in piles to keep, give away and throw away. When I start on some more piles I will also have a sell pile and what does not sell on eBay will go to Plato's Closet or Psycho Sisters or a nearby consignment shop for sale.

Dave Ramsey say's sell some stuff so I will also try to get as much stuff on eBay today as possible. I have way too much stuff and I just don't need it all. I unloaded three pieces of furniture via my Free-Cycle community about a month ago and that felt terrific! I've got a cool queen sized slat bed that I'm going to try to unload on Craig's List too! What single woman needs two queen sized beds and a queen sized sofa bed? I haven't decided yet but I'm considering making the second bedroom sort of a den type workroom. At the moment the computer and a lot of my project stuff is in there along with the queen bed. I am a bit overwhelmed at the moment but I need to do one project at a time and move on to the next. Speaking of that, I better get off the blog and move on with the projects right now but I'm finding it difficult since Missy the cat climbed into my lap a few minutes ago and is fast asleep. Ah well, it's a good thing that cats have short memories because she's about to be disturbed!

Thanksgiving in Ohio after all...

Woo Hoo! Looks like I'll be able to get up to Ohio for Thanksgiving after all! You have no idea how excited I am about this. There's a new baby to play with and lot's of folks traveling in from all over the place. I really treasure the times with my family up there. The only issue with this visit is that I will need to fly on the morning of the holiday if I plan to get on a stadby flight. It's looking good so far but one never knows what's going to happen until you actually get to the airport and watch the boards for your name.

We'll come home Saturday afternoon so it's a short visit but it will be well worth the hassle to be able to spend time with my loved ones and get caught up on all the happenings up there. One day I really would love to move back there but for now it's just a dream far back in the recesses of my cluttered brain and my wonderful life continues in North Atlanta...

Where in the world did 2007 go?

Oh my goodness! Thanksgiving is two weeks from tomorrow! Mom's going to make her annual Thanksgiving trek up to Ohio to spend the holiday with her brothers and thier families. I usually like to go too and bake some pies for the big Hummel gathering but since I am working at Trader Joe's this year I'm just not going to be able to get up there and I won't really be able to go anywhere for Christmas either. I am however going to Macedonia on December 30th though (have you heard?) so I won't be "stuck" in Atlanta for the entire holiday season. I'm hoping that my Pop will be able to drive up from Florida to spend some time with me here.

I sent out an email message to all my local pals with no nearby family here in the Metro Atlanta area and I'm going to make a traditional Yankee Thanksgiving feast at my house. I'll do a turkey, mashed taters & regular dressing & gravy. None of this cornbread dressing for this California girl! I don't do grits or greens and I don't do cornbread dressing! I do however do sweet tater casserole which is just about the only traditional Southern dish that I'll eat. I will also be baking several kinds of pie using my Grandma Hummel's recipe's which I have updated slightly for health reasons but the Ohio family seems to really like my pies so I don't think the changes I've made make the pies less palatable. Pumpkin, Pecan and apple pies are on my list for baking here. If I was in Ohio for the holiday we'd also have chocolate pie on the table and date pudding. Wow, we sure put a whole lot of food on the table for Thanksgiving! We'll need somthing green on the table or everything will be brown and white so I may have someone bring Green Beans and maybe a raw veggie platter.

Gotta run - all this food talk is making me hungry! I suppose I should start posting recipes like my Hummel cousin Trent does. I'll add that thought to the agenda I have in the old noggin...