Thanksgiving prep and thanks

First prep was to text several friends to tell them I'm thankful to have them in my life.

That done, since for once Handsome Son is not working Thanksgiving Day, nor Friday, we're celebrating Thursday, the "right" day.

Here's the pretty simple food, my part of it -- he brings a lot of other food -- in the fridge, prepped to roast Wednesday evening, and on the counter to heat Thursday. Using canned veg is a recent thing to save my energy.

Done ahead, warm through Thursday, smelling very good 

 

And the table is set up 

Tea lights found in the freezer and set up on the hearth.

Meanwhile Wednesday was about tofu katsu, which was browner and crisper than it looks here

and reading 

a great social history of domestic service and how Virginia Woolf conducted herself with the women who served her and provided her with the care and space which enabled her to write. I expect they'd have liked a room of their own, too.  

Light portrays, in a well researched and compassionate look, all the lives affected by domestic service in the England of the nineteenth into twentieth century. This has been described as a history of women, either working in service or hiring into service.

Before I leave, just a word of thankfulness for you, blogistas. I publish daily, at midnight my time, so that I'll have something to get up for next morning -- your comments. And you lift me up and educate and entertain me each day, thank you.

And let's remember the people who really put the food on our American tables