Day 47.......Turkey Pot Pie for Thanksgiving dinner...yum

Day 47.......Turkey Pot Pie for Thanksgiving dinner...yum

3 Girls and 4 Suitcases.

Yesterday was the first Thanksgiving dinner here since 1991 and it was a lazy persons version, I'm afraid but very yummy. A pot Pie has everything inside the pie, to enjoy the full meal. There were potatoes, peas, carrots, Turkey, gravy and of course Puff Pastry. I hadn't realised that it would contain potatoes (the chicke one we had last week didn't) and so I made mashed potatoes which proved to me that the girl-guides were worthwhile. I had no peeler to peel them and no masher to mash them and so I did the following (in case you are ever without the 'essentials')
Pour boiling juice from cooked carrots into baking pan to warm it. Drain cooked potatoes. Empty carrot juice from baking pan and pour potatoes into into it. Put butter and milk into potato pan and return to gentle heat. Mash potatoes with a fork and then our back into melted butter and milk. Mix well. Serve.
LOL. but it was fun working out how to get it all done and for it to stay hot.....and it was a delicious success.
The early part of the day was spent doing not a lot, I have to admit. I didn't even go outside till close to dinner and boy did I wish that I had gone out earlier. Reason? It was really warm outside whilst Ali and I had spent the day under a fleecy blanket trying to stay warm. Did I already say that when I was 'ordering' this home, I wished for it to be just like the one at Mountcastle and it is very similar......even to the being colder on the inside bit. I maybe should have ammended the order to include 'must be cosy warm' but I suppose that I could simply put the heating on-right?
Stubborn as I am, I am holding out for Nov 1st, which sounds familiar and perhaps already said but I am writing in so many different spots just now that I forget what I have said where.
Todays weather is a bit the same-warm outside but a bit chilly in here. Because I am working on my screenplay, I have had to be inside so I am well wrapped up and I am actually thiking that I may take things to the library, this afternoon. Less distractions and warmer me thinks....or maybe I will just wait till tomorrow. Oops, the rain has begun to pour. I was just telling Ali that we needed to get her a brolly so that she didn't have to repeat the soaking she got last week. Perhaps I will go buy her one and take it down to the school. Mmm? I know that they have some in Shoppers Drug, around the corner and I need to go to the Post Office anyway so I think that's the plan. My windows are all wide open to let the warmer air into the house-a bit bonkers, eh?
So, I have a couple of possible job offers....we'll see what happens and if they happen I'll let you know. It's very interesting that they are from the family that I used to nanny for. 2 of the boys are intersted in my helping out their wives with newborns and Mary has asked that I spend a morning a week helping with her husband, who has altzeimers (? spelling)
Watch this space but wouldn't the Universe be even more wondrous if it now has me working for the next generation of the same family....Mmm?
Okay dokay-lunch is calling me and I need to nip out to post Ali's letter.....and buy that brolly. Good job I have a rain jacket.
Love to all, always,
Lxxx