Well, my DH had to work yesterday, arrived home at 8:30pm. Could have been worse, I suppose. He only had to do one load, but up to Cadillac. Jackie intived me over, but I'm not well yet and had so much to do here.
Took me about 3 hours to water the cows, but got the 2nd trough moved to the vegetable garden, both filled. I also cooked. We didn't have a turkey, nor chicken or any other poultry and I didn't want to have to butcher something, so decided on a lamb rib roast. Made mashed potatoes and a chicken stock gravy as DH had said he liked turkey gravy on mashed potatoes. Only had a small quantity of green beans and no crispy onion rings, so green bean casserol wasn't going to be possible. Wow, I was sooo unprepared for this Thanksgiving. Baked 3 Hubbard squash from the garden for pumpkin pie, but boy oh boy were they wet ! Picking them up they broke open, pouring juice in the oven, over the floor. Oops. Made a cream cheese pastry, which had to rest in the fridge for at least 1/2 hour. Found an interesting new recipe which cooled into layers, but only called for 1 cup of pumpkin, so I doubled the recipe. Piled up nice and high, and I popped it into the oven. Big mistake, it cooked over the top and pooled on the bottom of the oven, and then started to burn. Black clouds of smoke pouring from the kitchen, rushed upstairs and closed our bedroom door, put all the ceiling fans on high, opened all the outside doors. Fortunately I was hot hot hot from cooking, it was 23 degrees F outside and took a while to get the smoke out of the house. I scraped the burning stuff out of the oven which helped, as well as the stove extractor fan on full. And to top it all, the pie didn't set - this morning DH asked for a piece, and it was liquid. Great flavour, but otherwise a shake ?
We ended up eating mashed potatoes with gravy, peas and squash. Rather yummy. I'd switched the oven on this morning to heat the lamb with vegetables, and put the pie back in. DH was called in to work again early as the day-driver had taken off early, sick. I ate by myself, the lamb is tasty, but fairly fatty which DH doesn't like. The pie seems more solid. Will try a slice once it's completely cold.
The kitchen looks as if a bomb has gone off in it, so I should get stuck into cleaning it.
There is a bit of snow on the ground, is overcast but the sun is there just behind the clouds. Think it's going to be a pretty sunset tonight.
DH put a smudge pot made out of one of the tin buckets to melt the ice in the baby pool goose pond. Works well.