Thanksgiving is next week!

 After a week of trying to get a bit more back to normal, it's now time to really work on getting ready for our cabin trip.

We have confirmed that we will need to rent a larger vehicle.  Dave sold his big car a year and a half ago, and my car isn't quite up to the task, now that we have a telescope, and are taking guitars (which we don't usually do), and all of the pots, pans, dishes, etc., that we are going to need.

Our best option, my idea, looked like it was going to be a UHaul van, because they quoted us $80 for the rental.  

HOWEVER, when Dave went to confirm it, suddenly there was $200 more in charges.

He had previously looked at renting a sport utility vehicle from Enterprise, and that was going to be $230.  

We thought that was a bit too much, so that was why we looked at UHaul.. HAHA!

Dave can use his company discount at Enterprise, too, so it will be less than that.  Yes, he confirmed that with his boss.

SO that's lined up.  

Also, since neither of us is working in our offices, we don't have the usual luxury of bringing home copy paper boxes to pack our stuff in, so we bought a couple of smallish plastic bins, and will use paper grocery bags for any overflow, and all of the non-refrigerated food items.

Unfortunately, my usual practice of purchasing a turkey breast around Halloween, and dropping it into the deep freeze,  was stolen from me by the massive power outage.

Even IF I had already purchased it, we would have lost it when all of our food rotted.

We went out grocery shopping Friday night (I didn't want anyone else picking out my menu items for this holiday), and there were literally NO turkey breasts left, but there were hundreds of whole turkeys.

I was not about to drive all over town looking for a turkey breast, so, I grabbed two Cornish hens, which were my back up plan. They were the LAST TWO.

It seems, at least locally, that people are opting for smaller gatherings for this holiday, like the CDC is recommending.

Anyway, when we went around the end of the big open freezer case,  I found a small, "freezer to oven" boneless turkey breast by "Butterball" brand.

Hmmm...

The options juggled around in my head for a minute, and I settled on the boneless turkey.  It will bake faster, and there will be less mess, and just enough left overs.

Since we have to pack in EVERYTHING we will need for cooking, eating, and drinking, the simpler, the better.

Fortunately, the park IS still providing towels, and those prepacked kits of coffee and cream/sugar.

This weekend, I am making my check lists, and dropping things into the plastic bins as I think of them.

We have done this trip so many times that this part is easy now.  We just need to keep in mind that we have to bring the whisk, and the measuring spoons, etc. etc.

This morning, we are off to Costco one last time before the holidays.  I found a couple of possible gift items in their catalog, and we don't want to have to go again before the end of December, because there will be too many people there.

Oklahoma is still experiencing the highest COVID numbers yet, and we are going into personal lock down.

Have a good Sunday, gentle readers, and stay safe and healthy.  I hope that you are finding ways to celebrate the holiday next week with kindness to yourselves, and with respect for the new limitations on our lives.