Turkey Day

I can't think of a least productive way to start a cooking session than breaking something ..... in this case, my face again .....

So, there I was walking across the house with as load of laundry to start and then I am coming to under a chair and my face tells me "I am hurt!".  As my wits return to me, I realize that my leg had come off! The leg is a pressure fit type with a pressure cuff to assure this type of leg ejection will not happen!  As I figure it, my body decided to lose a few inches of water weight gain during the night, and there was insufficient leg mass for the friction hold!  So, it popped off, I went straight down on the tip of my stump, bruised the tibia bone and meat of the stump - but as an added bonus - as I went down, my face impacted the steel supports for a chair, re-breaking my cheek bone only!  Yes, black eye returned during the day .....

Between ice packs, for the next 5 hours, I was making appetizers for eldest daughter's dinner.  I made boiled shrimp, cocktail sauce, a veggie tray, little phyllo cups filled with cream cheese and crab, and asparagus ham rolls.  This was my first real cooking since the surgeries and it was rewarding to be creating again!  :)

About now son shows up with girl friend, he has been missing for three days - uncool!  And we get into it because he had left a loaded gun out, my grand-kids found it and racked a round!  He was within a split second of ugly Papa over that one!  But he agreed it was a major whoops and locked all of them away in his gun safe.  Sigh ... Thank God they did not pull the trigger!  So, I will be sending off to the NRA for their kids training program materials.

And what is a holiday without drama?!?!  Yes, mother was as crazy as a loon!

I called to tell her to be ready in five minutes for pick up and she is screaming. "who is this?"
Then refused to come because she could not hear me and I was yelling at her.
Good God!, her and her manic depression!  Or her and her refusal to take  meds!
It is really unfortunate because all of the kids were there.
I doubt this will ever happen in my lifetime again, busy lives.

Oldest daughter laid out quite the spread.  And she did well!
Even the Siberian vegan was able to eat well, as did all of us meat-a-saurs!
So, a success!
Just a darn shame that mother's brain fried again ....