Happy Turkey Day and my sorta funny holiday story (G rated)

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Maybe stroll on unless you are bored! OK wife is cooking and I am making like I am working! yea right... ( building on a classic car that will be wortlh many times less is NOT a job!) It is is called retired ( definition: too old to actually work and draw a check).
(Spelling cops please correct all errors!) Thanks in advance,

Stepson and family (wife and rug rats of 5 and 3 1/2 years old) decide to go on camping trip (wife decides this) to S E Ok. some state park with is like 6 hours away. Maybe 7. Another family (similar) goes also. The Kid (we call him the "Kid" as he came along late in her life. He is 32 and she is 69. ) But I digress?

The Kid is big bass fisherman and loves deer hunting "when" he can get away. (seldom). He buys a nice tent, sleeping bags, air mattresses ( I assume), a camp heater that runs off diesel and has an electric fan that requires, yes, a battery. He forgets to load the battery. But they load the coolers.

They all get there, pitch the tent, cook out (kids that make $$ grill out tri tip). Yea are having a good time even though a good cold front blew in. (cold).

They almost froze as the heater had no battery to run the fan. No tools to take one out of the truck. But, they did not put the coolers back in the trucks last nite. Ya know what coons do as they are smart and have great hands. And an appetite. To the store to replace all the food (including the Oreo's) and buy a BATTERY. This was not these coons first rodeo, I bet.

Today, the rug rats await a day of fishing (the 3 year old gives a chit.) his best work is hunting toads and rocks.

Yes their Thanksgiving meal will be either fish or tri tip, probably both.

Fri. will be another day. (unless they all load up and return home...early?)

Happy Thanksgiving ALL! :thumbsup: :steering:
 
Happy Thanksgiving Day memory. 42 years ago I was working on the Space Shuttle Launch Complex project at Vandenberg AFB. On the day before Thanksgiving we started a large and complicated concrete pour, I was operating the concrete plant. It was one of those pours that once it was started it had to be completed. Well, they had issues on the placement end and oh so slowly they were able to keep it alive without causing structural damage. 8 hours went by, end of straight time pay rate. Then started the OT at time and a half for 3 hours. Move on to the the Double Time hours until midnight, 7 hours. Thanksgiving Day arrives at Triple Time :eek: . Finally we completed the pour at 07:00 Thanksgiving morning. When I got in my pickup to head for home, I was just short of $1000 richer than I was 24 hours previous :lol:.
Funny thing, they never would tell me just exactly what it was that they messed up on that end. :lol: Why they decided to pour on that particular project on the day before a triple time day just astounded me. A shower, change of clothes, and a nice nap in the car ride to LA followed to join the family for Turkey Day festivities :D.
 
No funny stories here. Just a great time while we so rarely have the entire family together at one time. My wife, son, two daughters and their respective tribes. 19 of us all together. Luckily my daughter in Olathe has a large enough home to accommodate us all. Thanking God for all these blessings today.
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Wishing you all a happy and blessed Thanksgiving.
 

Way back in the 60s I was a teenager in S W Ga. SoWeGa they call it ( or did). Mom (Ma) loved to Holiday cook for all the relatives, Thanksgiving and Christmas, her bothers and sisters (9 just there) cousins, sisters, all their kids, in laws, out laws.... Probably always 30 odd people total. The "big" table seated 10, the kitchen table 6, picnic table at least 8, TV trays, and the rest sat their plate outside on whatever ( cars and pickups). That did not count relatives that never attended (why?).

One day , I grew up (?) and it was a very sad day I had graduated to the big table.
 
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