Hey TKP family - wishing you and yours a happy and safe Thanksgiving! It's been a disappointing season, but let's keep perspective on what's really important, our families. I hope you all enjoy your day with yours, eat lots of good food, enjoy a few drinks, and have fond recollections of those that are no longer with us.
Love you guys-
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Happy Thanksgiving Fam! Regardless of the football hardships, I am still very thankful for this community and the connection it gives me to VT that I would not have otherwise
Wishing everyone a great Thanksgiving with family and friends and appreciating all that we have. Although I do wonder about Woodstock's almost cannibal-like reaction here.
Happy Thanksgiving from foggy St Augustine
Air frying turkey cutlets (first time) since there's just the two of us, but already getting nervous about the game Saturday. Nevertheless, hope one and all have a Happy Thanksgiving!
anxious to hear how the cutlets turn out!
kids and their red beast (pit mix) are coming over Saturday; so we'll smoke a (very) small bird then (and some sausage for snacking). should be worn out enough to sleep thru the game if needed.
today it's homemade cinnamon rolls for breakfast and shrimp for dinner
Cutlets could have been better. l cut them pretty thin from a fresh breast and think they may have been just a tad too thin to be good and juicy. Tasted good, just a bit overdone I guess. Still trying to learn the air fryer thing and while it's obviously a good addition to the kitchen, it's not intuitive. I'll do some more today just to see if I can get it right. A whole breast had a lot of cutlets and I gotta figure a way to eat 'em.
I smoked a ham that I cured. Working on the glaze now. And then will set the glaze in an oven.
There have been some things going on in life that have made any concerns about the football season a non-issue. I still don't think everyone should be as worked up as they are, though. I'm thankful I have a team to root for, regardless of quality.
Nice! My turkey should be done in a 1/2 hour. I'll share as well.
Turkey is done!
What time is dinner topher 😋😋😋😋😋
2:30. I'll be here all day. Got more food than we know what to do with!
That's a lot of stuffing!
Looks amazing!
That might be the most beautiful ham I've ever seen. Well done!
I worked in a country store that made country hams for Christmas every fall. We did about 325 or so, so it wasn't a fun project, but it was pretty cool and I've not had better tasting country ham than we produced. Lot of work to get them trimmed and salted, then the blackstrap molassas and black pepper. I was surprised at how little time they actually smoked after the curing process. I dare say not one of those hams was anywhere near as perfect as yours seems to be. Now I want a ham and onion sandwich!
Dang senator that looks fine
Thanks for your post, sen. Seems like it's easier to gripe than to be happy these days, and things of importance have a way of changing so quickly you can wonder what was the big deal in the first place. And not to mention how easy it is to think good times will always be with us as others suffer. Like you, I am thankful to have the Hokies to root for and I'm too old to change that regardless of the who's and whats the Jimmies and the Joes and this year's record. Hope you and yours have a good day and don't worry a bit, I'll obsess enough about the UVa game for the both of us and I'll raise a glass to ya to boot.
you are safe for another year!
OCEAN SPRAY WHOLE BERRY CRANBERRY SAUCE
SO MUCH THIS
Wife just made me go to the Food Lion to get her some Craisons for her stuffing. Store was packed with other idiots that didn't get it done yesterday.
I thought that was you....hahaha.
Gobble til ya wobble
YEAHHHHHHHH CHUMPS
Conversely, Wobble til you Gobble!
I so miss being able to run. Too many knee surgeries and too many years to do it now.
Thankfully I did manage to do the bucket list marathon completion when the years were low enough and there had only been 1 knee surgery. Would have regretted not making it for the rest of my life if I hadn't done it.
Congrats on the marathon, which I wouldn't have run for love or money, ok mabe a lot of money, but I got ya on the knees. Surveying in the mountains and a lifelong abuse of my joints have left me with a couple of unreliable pins. Old enough to wonder if it's worth it to get more work done running for anything other than a fly ball in a softball game is something I've never wanted to do. Still, it would be nice to have knees that would run if they had to, or needed to. That'd be cool.
when I hit 40 my body said "lol you have arthritis in your foot now"
amazing
hurt my knee in 2017. bad enough to swell for an extended period and have lots of purple between there and my ankle; but not bad enough to warrant surgery.
I go to the doc a year later. I tell her the swelling isn't an issue anymore and I have no trouble walking. Then I say, "But I don't know about running more than a few quick steps to cross the street". She busts out laughing, "Oh, you're not getting THAT back". And she was right.
One of my Hokie buddies would call this an "organ recital". Hate to break it to you, but at 74, I can say with authority that it don't get any better.
FAM !!
Since this is a Virginia Tech sports site, I'd like to celebrate the VT-related player/coach/moments I am most thankful for.
I am thankful for Frank Beamer and the ~30 years of AWESOMENESS Virginia Tech football was from roughly 1993 to 2011! And I am thankful for Bryan Still's punt return in the 1995 Sugar Bowl vs Texas that helped springboard Virginia Tech football to national prominence.
Any thankful VT people or moments (in any sport) folks would like to share?
Bryan ran right at us in our end zone seats. Damn fine game, damn fine time in our first trip to NO. Not new for me to say, but the UVa game that sent us to the Sugar Bowl that year was my all time favorite football game. To be there, on the 50 with a bunch of 'hoos just made it more special. The party afterward was so dead (I was staying with some die hard 'hoos) but I couldn't even talk I was so hoarse from yelling.
Dam, he made that looks easy.
I am thankful I was in Lane for the Logan Thomas game, where he had a nearly perfect game against Miami. That was my daughter's first Hokie game, definitely spoiled her.
Also, thankful for the Kyle Fuller game against Georgia Tech. Dude was a beast.
I'm thankful my first time in Lane Stadium involved Michael Vick playing, and scoring a patented flying leap TD.
And I am thankful for Blake DeChristopher's glorious, glorious Beard.
Happy FAMgiving to all of TKP!
Thank you for making me laugh and cry. Thank you for giving me various perspectives to contemplate.
You all make my day. For that, I am grateful.
Happy Thanksgiving!
I feel that we've already had the airing of the grievances, and I'm looking forward to the feats of strength.
Happy Thanksgiving You Filthy Animals!
Just kidding. All have a great day!
Lets be thankful for the higher rated QB here and hope this starts a Legend.
You know what, the Bears made me thankful for our coaches NFL quality end of game time management today
Thankful for being a Hokie! Renewed my TKP and will look into being a Triumph NIL contributor. Hokie FB and BB will return to winning.
Thankful I wasn't born a wahoo.
Amen
"Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be wahoos..."
Let's hope to be thankful to get off this list tomorrow
The most VT thing would be to get off that list by shifting to a negative turnover ratio.
Were we not another +2 ,+3 yesterday?
Yeah depends on if turn over on downs counts I made that comment well before the game though. Glad to get off that list in the better fashion.