Time to Give Thanks Some days it doesn’t feel like I have a lot to be thankful for. The trouble with getting older is everything you remember is painted with the brushes of the past. Those brushes, the echoes, and reflections of the past color everything I do today. And sometimes the colors of my memories of moments… Read More »
It’s Turkey Time: Caring for a Dead Turkey It’s time for our annual turkey guide & essay. Just in the nick of time, too. Wow! It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just a few days away. Many of you busy planning your Thanksgiving menus. While the sly ones are planning on going to to someone else’s house… Read More »
A Very Special Thanksgiving When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of myself as a boy, watching the Thanksgiving parade on television, mom busy in the kitchen preparing our Thanksgiving dinner and the feeling of love all around. I remember gray, cold and cloudy days and the steamy windows that cooking made. And I remember Thanksgiving snowflakes in… Read More »
Turkey Time: Caring for a Dead Turkey It’s hard to believe that Thanksgiving is just two weeks away. Many of you are already planning your Thanksgiving menus. And I’m betting a lot of you are going traditional this year and having turkey. A turkey is a lot more than a stupid bird that cannot fly very well. (Can… Read More »
Caring for a Dead Turkey Dead turkeys make lousy pets. Did you know that a dead turkey requires more care than a living cat and almost as much care as a living dog? Cats are pretty good at almost any temperature that people are OK with — whereas dogs are a little more touchy. Dogs seem to do… Read More »
The Holidays are just around the corner – and it’s time to publish our yearly reminder to be extra careful during the Holiday season – which really has already begun. Yes already those “You’ve got a Halloween greeting” messages are starting to appear in your email inbox. Keep this in mind: it’s only going to get worse. We’ve… Read More »