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RachelLeigh
True Blue Farmgirl

634 Posts

Rachel
Rainier WA
USA
634 Posts

Posted - Nov 11 2020 :  12:05:15 PM  Show Profile
We planned to fly my mom out to western Washington from Indiana to spend Thanksgiving with us, and we were going to take her to the world's easiest and tastiest Thanksgiving dinner that we've discovered since we moved here - Thanksgiving buffet at Little Creek Casino. Thanks to COVID, though, Mom's not coming and we're not going to the buffet. As a result, I ordered a fully-cooked turkey dinner from Safeway for pick-up the day before the T-Day, and we're going to take it out to our travel trailer we keep at a private campground in the forest. It'll just be me, Tim (hubby), and Jaxx (our recently-adopted rescue dog) for the holiday this year.

How has the pandemic changed your plans?


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"Nowadays, even living simply - working only to acquire life's most basic necessities, demands so much." - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov

MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl

6625 Posts

Krista
Utah
USA
6625 Posts

Posted - Nov 11 2020 :  12:23:45 PM  Show Profile
To be honest we still don’t know what we are doing. The governor just put us into another sort of lock down where you are only to be with those who live In your household for the next 2 weeks. So who knows what will come from that. We won’t know anything until the end of these 2 weeks. May just be my little family this year too. If that’s the case I will just make a small Thanksgiving dinner for us.

Krista
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RachelLeigh
True Blue Farmgirl

634 Posts

Rachel
Rainier WA
USA
634 Posts

Posted - Nov 11 2020 :  12:38:10 PM  Show Profile
It sounds like you are flexible and adaptable, Krista, so that's half the battle. I expect lockdowns or pseudo-lockdowns to happen more as the disease just keeps spreading. I hope your holiday is still meaningful.

Also, I love Utah. I've only been there once (to the SLC area) but it's gorgeous! I also love the size of the houses there! So much room - I'd actually have room for my food storage if I bought a house in Utah!


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"Nowadays, even living simply - working only to acquire life's most basic necessities, demands so much." - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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HollerGirl56
True Blue Farmgirl

1334 Posts

Barbara
Flat Top WV
USA
1334 Posts

Posted - Nov 12 2020 :  10:45:03 AM  Show Profile
Always just hubby and I and our animal friends. We'll smoke a turkey and have veggies that we have grown---either frozen or kept in the root cellar. I always make cornbread stuffing and cranberry sauce. Fun and simple.

Old Age Ain't No Place For Sissies!------Bette Davis
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ddmashayekhi
True Blue Farmgirl

4708 Posts

Dawn
Naperville Illinois
USA
4708 Posts

Posted - Nov 12 2020 :  1:04:22 PM  Show Profile
It will be the same for us here, our sons and us for dinner. My oldest son is a police officer and since he's single without kids, he usually has to work all the holidays. Hopefully he will make it, but I've learned not to count on that. I will cook for all of us anyway. We like to eat and then take a hike at the Morton Arboretum afterwards to help digest all that food. I am thankful for my family and our home, Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

Dawn in IL

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house. So I have spent almost all the daylight hours in the open air." Nathaniel Hawthorne
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JeanP
True Blue Farmgirl

1284 Posts

Jean
Deary ID
USA
1284 Posts

Posted - Nov 12 2020 :  5:30:17 PM  Show Profile
Yes, indeed, holidays are different this year. We have encouraged family to stay put (Nevada and Utah). So it will just be DH, the critters and yours truly. Will do Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings . . . except Cornish Game Hens instead of a big turkey. Already got 'em in the freezer. And have acorn squash from our garden this year ready and waiting. Add stuffing, gravy, smashed taters,and pumpkin/Praline pie and we're good to go. It'll be lonely, but "safe". If I can learn how to SKYPE between now and then, maybe we can have a virtual "get together". 2020 IS NOT MY FAVORITE YEAR!! I WANT A DO-OVER . . . jean

"However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
. . . .Stephen Hawking
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl

9203 Posts

Denise
Beavercreek Ohio
USA
9203 Posts

Posted - Nov 13 2020 :  11:48:25 AM  Show Profile
My daughter and her family as we spend alot of our time with them. I don't really know other than that. Everyone is pretty much staying put I think.

~Denise
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl

6625 Posts

Krista
Utah
USA
6625 Posts

Posted - Nov 13 2020 :  1:23:41 PM  Show Profile
Rachel, I love Utah and agree, it’s very pretty. I live a little over an hour north of SLC. We are less crowded and less busy this way. I actually don’t like traveling to SLC because the traffic scares me lol. We actually made sure our pantry in our house was big enough for our food storage lol!

Krista
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Dreamer42
True Blue Farmgirl

2654 Posts

April
Central Oregon
USA
2654 Posts

Posted - Nov 13 2020 :  6:43:36 PM  Show Profile
Lol Jean!! I would like a do over too!!

Dreamer42
Farmgirl Sister #7038
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Dreamer42
True Blue Farmgirl

2654 Posts

April
Central Oregon
USA
2654 Posts

Posted - Nov 13 2020 :  6:53:45 PM  Show Profile
I believe we're staying put for Thanksgiving day itself... we are on a 2 week lock down again here in Oregon... my parents, sister and her family all live in the Portland area and the covid cases are highest there in our state, my dad is terminal and has no immune system to fight any possible germs, so we will not be gathering around the thanksgiving table this year. However, we are planning on making a day trip over, probably the day after thanksgiving, to see my folks, masked of course, and to drop off christmas presents, just in case we're unable to make it over the mountain next month as we already have snow in our mountains. So, it will be quiet here on our little home front, it will just be the four of us, my three kings and I, but we will be counting our blessings, that's for sure.

Dreamer42
Farmgirl Sister #7038

Edited by - Dreamer42 on Nov 13 2020 6:55:46 PM
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janamarieje
True Blue Farmgirl

1022 Posts

Jana
Southern California
USA
1022 Posts

Posted - Nov 13 2020 :  7:04:36 PM  Show Profile
I believe we are headed to another lockdown here is Southern California, so Thanksgiving with be on facetime with my family. It wont be the same but better safe then sorry.

Jana
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RachelLeigh
True Blue Farmgirl

634 Posts

Rachel
Rainier WA
USA
634 Posts

Posted - Nov 14 2020 :  08:33:09 AM  Show Profile
Thank you for replying to my question, ladies. I love reading how you're all coping. Not once did I notice any grousing - it's all the "can do" attitude I expect from the women of this community! Making the best of it regardless of the situation!

We are in the Seattle metro area, and we are likely to head toward another lockdown, as well. Cases in WA have doubled in the last week, and the governor is rightly concerned.


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"Nowadays, even living simply - working only to acquire life's most basic necessities, demands so much." - Rebbe Nachman of Breslov
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HollerGirl56
True Blue Farmgirl

1334 Posts

Barbara
Flat Top WV
USA
1334 Posts

Posted - Nov 14 2020 :  09:46:10 AM  Show Profile
We contrary West Virginians are on the uprise too. I think people should do what they have to do this holiday and next year will be better, Hubby and I wear masks every where and yet we see people go into stores that say masks are required without masks on---go figure, You all are right---do what we have to do these holidays===there will be many more for most of us. God bless you all and happy Thanksgiving to all.

Old Age Ain't No Place For Sissies!------Bette Davis
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amomoffour
True Blue Farmgirl

73 Posts

Ruth
Cañon City CO
USA
73 Posts

Posted - Nov 14 2020 :  5:46:50 PM  Show Profile
Not sure how our family will celebrate Thanksgiving this year. We normally have all of our family come to my house, but now it might be different. Some family members are panicked about the pandemic and others really don't seem to mind. I will have to see when the time gets closer. But they are all invited!

Ruth Farmer
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jill skane
True Blue Farmgirl

853 Posts

jill lillian
stacyville maine
USA
853 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2020 :  09:05:44 AM  Show Profile
We usually have thanksgiving following weekend as daughter is of tech and working at hospital that day now with Chase of lock down in ma and possible here in Maine who knows. We look forward to daughters and grand daughter as they are 5 hours away but looks like may not happen.
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl

6391 Posts

Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
6391 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2020 :  10:49:43 AM  Show Profile
It will be a quiet Thanksgiving with the 3 of us. Hubby, Son and myself. Since we moved from Colorado our Neice will not be able to share this Thanksgiving with us as she can not fly in from Denver. We will miss her.
At least our family of the 3 will have a our traditional Thanksgiving. We have so much to be thankful for.
I wish all of you a Blessed Thanksgiving.

Big Hugs,
Debbie
#1582
Blessed in Oregon
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and the ocean.” Lord Byron”

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when someone breaks our wings we simply continue to fly on our Broomsticks. We’re flexible like that.
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl

1480 Posts

Marilyn
Renton WA
USA
1480 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2020 :  1:36:09 PM  Show Profile
I will be staying safe at home. I do have family nearby but we are being responsible so no gatherings this year. Today our governor announced some new restrictions will be going into effect tomorrow that are meant to keep us all safe. Hopefully my new outdoor pizza oven will arrive before Thanksgiving so I can enjoy a fresh homemade pizza made with ingredients from my garden. If not then I'll fix up something else fun on the barbecue. It's just me so trying to do the full on Thanksgiving feast doesn't make sense. But I'm having fun dreaming up new traditions that fit my lifestyle. Clearly it's going to be different this year so why not make it extra special? I wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Cheers! ~ Marilyn

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Hammahsfarm
True Blue Farmgirl

154 Posts

Nik
Baldwinsville NY
USA
154 Posts

Posted - Nov 15 2020 :  4:58:40 PM  Show Profile
We are experiencing a rise here as well again. Our county/town is on a Code Yellow MicroCluster warning. We have been asked to have no more than 10 for a Thanksgiving gathering. We will have 9. I am lucky that my one daughter and grandson live here with me and my husband and my other daughter and her husband and 2 children live only 5 min away. They will be joining us. She has been quarantined and her husband is a first responder and has to be tested weekly so we know they are clear of the virus. My mom is also only 10 min. away and has been quarantined too so we will be 9 all together! My house has always been the gathering place for Thanksgiving so it will be nice to still have that tradition. We have so many different dietary needs so it looks like we are feeding an army but that way everyone gets to bring home lots of leftovers and have good stuff for days! We have traditional foods, Vegetarian and Vegan takes on traditional foods. Always starting with a Homemade Soup this year is a Vegan - Creamy Mushroom and Long grain Rice Soup! So Yummy and Hearty!
We will Miss My Aunt who is under the weather and My Great Uncle who is unable to be released from his Nursing Care Facility due to Covid. We are sending cards and Care packages to them ahead of time but it isn't the same.
We will all pay closer attention to our tradition of sharing what we are all thankful for this year!
Thanksgiving is also my daughter's 26th Birthday so this year we are all surprising her by dressing as her (each of us have taken a look from a different picture of her and re-creating it) Her favorite dessert is Cherry pie so she will have her very own with a special top crust decorated for her with dough unicorns. My husband and I will also have the whole house decorated with all of our Christmas trees so when she m=wakes up it will be a winter wonderland!
It is those special moment that we will remember that will make 2020 not so bad when we look back!

Hammah Nik

Hammahsfarm
Farmgirl # 8102

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