Getting ready for T-Day ...

Still a few days away. But, already the preparations have started.

I baked bread last night that will be turned into stuffing. Mmmmm. That should be good.

I also baked some chocolate chip cookies to get me through the arduous ordeal of putting the ingredients for the bread into my Zojirushi Bread Maker -- or, as Donald Trump would say, the finest bread maker in all the world!

That's about all I have to do. Nancy won't let me do much else.

I may get to put the olives on the table ... but usually I eat most of them before anyone else arrives -- so a re-load is almost always necessary.

I look at black olives and always wish my fingers were still small enough to stick in the holes ... and then I would eat them off my fingertips ... (just so you know where my kids got that habit. LOL!)

Nancy will cook like we still have 8 kids at home. That is OK. I wish they were. And those who come see us, will get loaded up with leftovers.

Jolene and Drew are coming down from Bellingham. Jake and Nikki will also be joining us.

I haven't started lobbying Nancy for this yet -- but I think we should add some crab to our meal. I saw the Deadliest Catch skippers on a TV ad, asking us to eat more crab this holiday season -- especially seeing what the $#@% they go through to bring us crab. LOL! It was a funny ad. I think they are doing a marathon show on Thanksgiving.

They have a couple other shows I still love on Discovery. Bear Grylles is my hero. I like Survivor man too.

But right now, I seem hooked on Storm Chasers, the guys who are chasing tornadoes all over tornado alley. I am fascinated with the storms ... and am somehow connected through the show to my Mom's growing up in Kansas and what it must have been like then when these types of storms swirled through Kansas.

OK. So I'm rambling ... and will stop for now.

Eat more crab. It's the least we can do.

:) Dana