Thanksgiving pre and post

After all of the rain, including a 40 minute line of thunderstorms with 40 mph winds that had the cats hanging from the ceiling in terror shouting "what the hell?'" the sun had broken through so I indulged in a trip to the gym. This involves getting out the bike, various trips back into the house, locking and unlocking the gate each time, to get odds and ends I forget like the grocery list, my water bottle, my gym pass etc. Once on the road it requires agility to dodge the puddles, timing so that I am not riding through the puddles that I can't avoid while a truck passes by and the usual joy of trying to get through intersections where the pedestrian lights don't work and so I either have to go across the flow of traffic or wait in left turn lanes until someone pulls up behind me to trigger the light. Apparently the texas yeehaws, you know the ones in the big trucks and SUVs all thought it was funny to see how far up onto the sidewalk they could splash the water to try and drown me. Perhaps they were hoping for a sort of a wet t shirt effect although you'd think from my lumpy profile (that's why I go to the gym dummy) it would be a losing propostion from the start.

Anyway I got to the gym, changed into dry gym clothes, and had a whole vicarious pre Thanksgiving dinner while I worked out. Everyone else was exchanging recipes, discussing plans, and bemoaning how much extra they were going to have to work off and how hard it was to cook without sampling. I was feeling a bit smug since we were invited to daughters boyfriends parents for an early TG dinner Wednesday night so that they could have left overs and we could pick up my daughter, but have to admit that envied others their plans and gathering.

Tonight instead of turkey we will barbeque steaks since our daughter, back from college for the weekend craves red, almost raw meat. That means a second night when I won't have to cook. Ain't liberation fun?

Apparently there was frost on the window and grass this am. I slept late and missed it. Damn! it's probably the only frost we will get all winter. They still have ice warnings up on all the bridges but I laugh hysterically every time I see them

Texas is definitely a state of mind, I'm just not sure which one.