Day 18, Year 8: Getting Ready for the Thanksgiving Feast
Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2012
Weather: Partly Sunny
Location: Lightkeeper’s Marina in Coquina Harbor, Little River, SC
It was a busy day with lots of cooking and many trips to the store to get
ready for the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Trying to figure out just how
much food it takes to feed thirty something people is hard to judge. But we
have plenty of turkey, dressing, cranberry salad, green beans, potatoes of
all kinds, Brussels sprouts, corn casseroles, rolls, pies of many varieties
plus appetizers including local Calabash shrimp, veggie and fruit platters,
deviled eggs, miniature quiches, and on and on. Much of the work got done
today, but there is always more to do on Thanksgiving Day.
In the late afternoon, our friends Linda, Michael, and Garrett Stuart from
Concord, New Hampshire, arrived. Linda and Michael flew to Charlotte
yesterday, rented a car and drove to Columbia, South Carolina, spent the
night with their son Garrett at the University of South Carolina, and then
today drove from Columbia to Myrtle Beach. Mark, Michael, and Garrett went
down to the waterfront to buy fish for dinner and shrimp for tomorrow while
Linda helped my sister Patsy and I make the pecan pies for tomorrow. We
asked Patsy to place the pecans on the top of the pies and she did it with a
flair. Each pie looked like a work of art.
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