Smartie's Bar & Grill #68

The 1911 A1 is still a viable and relevant defense weapon.

 

Yes, we all like it here.

The only rule is Smartie's rule about NO POLITICS.

 

That seems really sad.

I moved close to my sister last year and it has been great being around her and her kids and their kids.

 

As an armed guard for a guard company, I just finished a graveyard shift last night and got off at dawn this morning.

My sister is a nurse and she has to work today. She has tomorrow (Thanksgiving Friday) off and so do I before my next graveyard shift, so we will have a Thanksgiving ham on Friday noon.

I spent most of today sleeping. I tried to listen to NFL football in the background but I just slept through it all for 12 hours from 7:30 AM to 7:30 PM.

 

Nice Thanksgiving. @Falena, its not a dude ranch. Privately owned 850 acres thats been in my friend's family since 1939. About 20 miles from Bush's ranch in Crawford. Beautiful, rugged country. Great hunting. Yesterday I saw a wild boar - prob 300 lbs! (I dont hunt, but saw him from the car!)

Heres some pics I took today. Dinner for 20.


View from the front yard


Front of ranch house. 6 bedrooms, 2 central air units, satellite tv, wifi. (Roughing it)

Food...





Nobody walked away hungry.

 

I guess not. LOL

How did that happen with a table seating 8?

 

isn't it funny how a grown gall is So Scaredy Cat of a little
politics.I wonder what she'd do in the event Political Forums
changed their Moniker to
Only Political Forums.
Politics and ONLY Politics.
Leave the Bar talk at home.

 

How many Burped.Isn't that a testament to a full tummy.
But the spread looked rather complete.Except the Booze.
Where was the bar stuff.How's a grpwn man supposed to
feel at home without a little stuff to warm his toes.
Like Bourbon.Or cases of beer.Or a nice bucket of Ice.
With some at least one bottle of Vodka,one of Rum,One
or two Tequila and maybe Gin.
Plus Before Feast snacks.

 

There was another table at the end of this one... and a kids table in the living room. Everybody had a place.

How was your turkey day?

 

No booze... except beer in ice chests outside. Two family members are cops... they had the beer. Lol

 

My parents passed. The family tradition seems to have lasted up to maybe 2000 when my daughter had the final family dinner with me present. It died with her mom become afflicted with Alzheimer's. I eat alone today.

 

Some people might spend their hard-earned savings on such things, but mostly it's rich people with more money than they know what to do with.

 

She's posted in the political forum. This is the community - member casual chat forum. If you can't abide by the rules, I suggest to you find another place to break them.

 

Had chicken from Walmart.

We were on the road and arrived home yesterday about 3PM since I have to be at work Saturday. Knowing this in advance, and not wanting to impose on a relative to cook two T-day meals, I cooked a meal last Friday; Spatchcocked turkey, green bean casserole, cornbread stuffing, mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie. While I'd spatchcocked AKA butterflied chickens and cornish game hens, I'd never done a turkey. With the help of the Internet it was a piece of cake. I cooked a 12 lb Turkey in 90 minutes and it came out great.

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/11/...-thanksgiving-fast-easy-way-spatchcocked.html

 

Agreed, which is why I have a few plus a S&W M&P in .45.

 

I'll have you know I'm a senior member here.Over 8 years
worth of written babble.
Plus Miss Smarty introduced me to this Pop Stand at roughly the
same time as her Initiation.Having left Allforums

Purgatorio
" Come follow me and let the world babble. "
-- Dante

 

Same here, Robert... very little family left. Which makes it twice as nice to be invited to join someone elses large and noisy family gathering.

 

Happy Black Friday, y'all. Who's shopping?

 

So? Does the allow you to insult others and violate rules?

 

Our tradition is to hunt on thanksgiving day and have a game feast the following Saturday. Usually do a small store bought turkey for sake of tradition but the main meal is goose, duck, dove, and quail. Winter hasn’t pushed the ducks down this far yet but we got a mess of dove and quail. Still have waterfowl in the freeze from last season so we are good to go.

 

Yup the M&P is S&W's Glock clone.

Glock has changed everything and they are now the new state of the art.

As much as I don't like Glock's I am forced to wear one in my job.

Glocks and Glock clones are very light weight due to the composite hybridization.

I hope S&W has also copied Sig's multiple spring recoil system like Glock has. This offsets the recoil from the lighter weight of the guns.

 

You're probably right.

I don't know how the rich live with themselves.

There are so many homeless and hungry poor in the USA and the world that could use a facility to eat and sleep and poop in.

 

My cousin and I did that once back in 1960. I was just a little kid back then. He got a squirrel and a rabbit. His mom my aunt roasted them with the turkey that year. It was a great Thanksgiving -- the best one I ever had in my life.

 

I need a few groceries, that's all.

 

My sister is a prohibitionist who is afraid of booze too.

And if I show up with booze on my breath she will kick me out.

Her youngest daughter is a recovering alcoholic and my sister is afraid my bad example will lead to her relapse.