The fall decor has been up for a while. Halloween decor has been added for about a month, and will be coming down again next week. Between helping family and friends who are going through health issues, helping at the school (I'm room mom this year), the kids, the hubby, and the house, I have been a tad busy. Normally by now, I would have Christmas plans starting. I'm not even there yet. I'm still trying to find Marshmallow Peep Ghosts for next weeks class party. LOL. I have to coordinate the party with the room mom for the other class and we just met last week to iron out what we were going to do. That's fine, but according to the stores, Halloween is over and it's Christmas now. I will have to plan better from the class Christmas party. I did buy our Thanksgiving turkeys today. So I'm ahead on that. The grocery has turkeys on sell for 79 cents per pound or turkey breasts on sale for 99 cents a pound. I bought one of each since we usually bake the big turkey (just under 20 pounds) and we fry a small one. There weren't any small ones for 79 cents per pound. They were all 18-20 pounds and our turkey fryer won't handle one that big. The hubby likes to keep them around 8 pounds and 10 pounds at the max. So I did pick up the 8 pound turkey breast. If I find a smaller turkey, I will buy that too and save the turkey breast for a later date. So they are both in my freezer waiting for next month.
Speaking of the freezer, It's loaded. I keep stock piling things, but I think now is the time to start using some of it. I got those turkeys in there, but not well. And I'd like to start buying the fish we use for Christmas Eve (It's not because of supply chain issues. It's just better to spread the cost out over a few weeks so it's not just one big hit at one time). It's really just the calamari and the smelts so they don't take up too much room, but I'm afraid things are going to get lost in there and then I'll have to throw them out due to being in there too long. I have a little experience with that and it's a terrible feeling to throw out food because it's freezer burned.
I shopped for next week already, not realizing how much is already in the freezer, so I'll start shopping my freezer after that.
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| The Halloween mantle |
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| The Halloween tree |
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| Outside decorations |
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| The squash borer moth killed most of our zucchini and pumpkins, but there two survived |
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| He's a pug for Halloween |
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| Family weekend at the boys college |
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| Trunk or Treat at the little guys school |
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| A trip to the Cleveland aquarium on a day off from school |
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| Mother Nature decorating for fall |
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| The color of the outside leaves with the colors of the inside tree |
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