Kanyon71

Congrats all

This is the first real holiday we will have being back in MI and in our new house. We did a test run for Halloween and it was nice, kids went and played in the basement and had lot's of room to run around and yell lol.

Wow I COMPLETELY forgot Pumpkin Pie Turkey is fairly easy to make. Preheat your oven to 325. Make sure the turkey is completely thawed, open it up and make sire you get all the giblets and neck and such out of it. I usually rinse it out well then pat it all dry. I usually put a little olive oil on the skin sprinkle with some salt and pepper inside and out. Put it in a shallow roasting pan (if you use the aluminum disposable ones I suggest a cookie sheet under for stability) breast side up. Roast it until the thickest part of the breast is about 165 degrees and the thigh is about 180. Usually about 2/3 rds of the way into cooking I cover it loosely with foil so that the skin doesn't get overdone. I've also seen people put the foil on for the first hour or so then pull it, whichever works for you. The time in the over will depend on the size of the bird. Once you pull it from the oven let it sit for 10-15 minutes for the juices to pull back in then carve it up.

Should be about 15-20 people here for dinner.

Ya it was like 75 here yesterday. Not the kind of weather that makes me think fall lol. I got new Christmas Lighting computer all setup and got the relays working. Now I just have to build the receptacle's and get it all put in a weatherproof box and I should be ready to start putting up the lights and having the show ready. I grabbed a few of the Trans Siberian Orchestra songs now I just need to find some more songs to have it play. I need them in MP3 format. Any suggestions for songs people would like to hear and see in a Christmas light display?

Anyone started to lay out their menu for Thanksgiving yet? We started on ours last night it may change over time. So far this is what it looks like. Appetizers: Buffalo Chicken Dip Cream Cheese/Veggie Rolls Pita Chips Veggie Tray Main Dishes: Smoked Turkey Honey Glazed Ham Mashed Potatoes Gravy 2 types of Stuffing/Dressing Green Bean Casserole Sweet Potato Casserole Cranberry (Thinking about trying to make our own this year as well as the can shaped stuff) Corn Rolls Dessert: Chocolate Chip Pecan Pie Chess Pie Butterscotch Pie Chocolate Pie

It's what I do. I bought the Xbox One as a bundle and to be honest haven't even downloaded the 3 games that came with it.

In my experience I prefer physical media. I guess I'm old school. When the consoles do away with them I think I will be a console person no more. I like media I can sell, trade, lend to family/friends. I also like the fact that the HUGE game (code and art) isn't sitting there hogging up my drive space when I'm not playing it. I tend to play games in cycles I won't touch one for a long time then I will go back months later and start playing it. As for the game being there no it's usually a DL you have to make after you spend hours waiting for the console to update to the latest firmware/os versions

I shop with my wife and sometimes we bring others. This year my sister and her hubby are supposed to go with us but not sure if that will happen or not.

We watched 2 of the Hallmark shows last night and watched A Christmas Story on Blu Ray The season is in full swing lol.

1. Approximately how many years have you been shopping on Black Friday? A1: 20+ Years 2. Do you plan to spend more, less or the same amount of money during Black Friday week this year? A2: Probably less as we have our major electronics already 3. Do you plan on shopping online during Black Friday week this year? A3: Yes we normally do some of our shopping online 4. How many people do you plan on shopping with on Black Friday this year? A4: 3 others 5. If you could make stores change one thing about Black Friday besides opening times, what would it be? A5: Walmart needs to have a better system, all the years of pain and crazy have got to stop

Close as I get is shopping online. I still refuse to go to the stores on Thursday, that and my time is spent cooking, football, being with family and planning for Friday

Each week we serve over 260 million guests all with only 2 registers open

We collect things that are either home made or at least look it. We have some for specials events in our lives and things of that nature. We have multiple trees that go up so we will keep collecting stuff.

I lived there for 17 years and we will be buying a 2nd home there again so thats why I said it lol

I was there last Friday It's an awesome place, I could spend a fortune there. You can rush through or you can take an entire day looking at everything. Don't just look at the stuff for sale make sure you look up at the ceilings where they have everything decorated. I honestly wonder how many Christmas trees they have in there. After that it was off to Frankenmuth for a chicken dinner.

I have been at it a long time. Been going with my grandmother since the 80's I think it is.

Congrats everyone

If it involves insanity it most likely happens in FL

They have stores here but to be honest have never been in one. Some of my friends swear by them but the couple of times I have looked at like hiking boots and stuff their prices were always higher than Dicks or Amazon.

I'm actually working on a new lighting controller made from a raspberry pi. I hope to have it completed in the next couple of weeks. We will start our decorating BF weekend. Hope to be able to have that ready and working and set everything else up.

We don't really have a budget, we determine about what we want to spend on everyone and use that as a guide. Sometimes it comes out less sometimes it's more.

Very funny

So it is funny, we ended up and went and bought the K550 this past weekend. Our old one had been in use for a long time but since the move we had not used it, went to use it this last weekend and just decided it wasn't worth going completely through it and giving it a thorough cleaning plus replacing the filter in it. As for the 2.0 having the protection on it there is an easy defeat and actually there is a company out there that will send you an easily installed clip to defeat it for free. Most of the stuff we use are all legit K Cups anyway so it's not a big deal. So far the new one has been great, it holds more water has more brew settings and has the larger carafe for days when we need more than 1-2 cups. Now I sure as heck didn't pay $95 and would LOVE to find that deal I would return this one in a heartbeat for that savings lol. As Len said it's not for everyone but once you get used to it the things are great.

One of mine was about getting a hidden treasure. One year we wanted a specific camera from Best Buy (Point and Shoot Canon) for my mother in-law. So we are there in plenty of time and all that, we go to get the camera and it's not anywhere to be found, we asked an employee and someone looked it up and said they show it in stock but many people had not checked out yet. So we were bummed but went on to finish our shopping. I was wandering around the store and decided to look at the over the stove microwaves for some reason while my wife was gathering some other things. I have NO idea why but I started opening them op and looking at the inside just to see how big they were. So I get to one I open it up and there is a camera sitting in there. Not only A camera but the one we wanted. I was like WHOA looked around and said SCORE. My guess is someone stuffed it there for later. I found my wife and told her so we decided to go on a treasure hunt to find other hidden things. Walked out of there with other things some we wanted and some we didn't really think about but got them due to our treasure hunt. lol was pretty neat now I ALWAYS treat our shopping like a treasure hunt.