My feast prep is bringing 750mL of Eagle Rare to the house, per family’s request.

Just gotta get through the work day. I have the Peanuts Thanksgiving music going

Normal day of work for me. I didn’t feel up to seeing my extended family this year - it’s been a sad few months (years, tbh) on my end, but all the cousins my age seem to have had banner years, and I just didn’t want to be the failure yet again - so I’m staying home with my cat and swinging down to Norfolk later in the weekend to see my parents. Usually I make desserts, though! There’s an apple and cream cheese torte I like to fix this time of year that I can’t justify making for just me.

Just as popular? Try more popular. I'd head to SP more often if I could park and ride and Willow Lawn.

I have to disagree with you I think it's 99.99% of people don't know they are Confederates

And wasn't ginter a gay man?

We believe in you!

Also, there is no shame in providing each guest with a post-meal Fun Size Snickers should your endeavor fail.

If it's anything like the Brightpoint(dumbest fucking name btw) renaming you have school branded shit everywhere that they have to change.

All the letterhead, signs, promotional materials, website, apparel, etc. have to be switched over and can add up quickly.

Brightpoint for example is still using furniture that has the John Tyler seal on it because they either didn't budget for replacing it too or just don't care.

I'm excited for a nice long weekend with family! going to eat, drink, and watch football for 4 days straight

we put it in the perfect place. if it ran down boulevard or monument it would not be nearly as effective. rockets landing was the perfect stopping point and willow lawn is a great starting point. i think we could keep extending it west and it would be just as popular. we should add more lines too. Hull street or Midlothian trnpk should be our next target.

No prep bc no family so we are taking it easy and hopefully playing disc tomorrow. No other time off bc small business everything.

Whole Foods on Broad street had several fresh turkeys yesterday.

This can't just stop with renaming the schools, then it's all for naught. Cary street in its entirety shall need to be renamed with every existing street sign that reads Cary needing to be replaced.

Also Carytown shall need to be renamed, how do you think that would go over with the business community?

This sounds adorable!!

And Cary Street. And Lewis Ginter botanical gardens. And Byrd everything. Change it to Bird. Rename all streets to just letters or numbers or plants.

>The three board members who voted against the name changes cited the cost, which can range from $25,000 to $50,000 per school.

Here's the real question. How is it this high? Is it just repainting some stuff and a sign by the road? Can we not just repaint with a new school name the next time things need routine repainting? And find a sign less grand for the road?

On Manahoac land in Clarke County. Going to do a long hike and grab a beer at a local brewery before we prep our yearly pre Thanksgiving Soup Night.

Originally planned to travel to my parents' this afternoon for Thanksgiving, but my wife and I found that one of our cats has cancer. She isn't eating much, so we don't want to be away from her for long - we might just make it a brief trip tomorrow. It'll be a somber holiday season for us this year.

According to the Native-Land.ca site, I live on land belonging to the Powhatan and Youghtanund peoples. I'll need to learn more about the Youghtanund tribe - thank you for that.

Thank you!

Can we post a thread about Chesapeake? Feel like we should have solidarity with other Virginians

I’m making my Mac and Cheese and driving to Baltimore to see family

• Do we need to talk about renaming Carytown now?

I think at some point you have to look at schools named for people specifically because of their being a Confederate, like Jefferson Davis, vs those named for people for other reasons, like John Cary. Cary, postwar, became superintendent of the Richmond schools who raised teacher salaries and promoted increased funding for the education of black students.

Retail is dying in general. Carytown will suffer to an extent but it is more "experiential" than an average mall.

It personally frustrates me a lot when grocery store employees make seasonal displays and completely wipe out the shelves to do so.

I was looking for pie crust and there was 0 pie crust at all where it should be. I figured there must have been a giant run on crust, but then later realized that no, it was in a seasonal cooler display in another location.

The same has happened before with spices and other baking needs. I get what they're trying to do but grocery shopping is already overwhelming enough for me without having to play hide and seek with seasonal displays. I've never worked at a place where we cleared out the regular stock area to make a display.

Eh. I’ve had just as good in a lot of other places.

Feel lucky I don’t have any food to prep. Will eat pie with the fam then head home early for a nap.

I’m mostly excited that the reindeer costume I ordered for my ferret showed up yesterday! Going to spend the day making miniature props and painting a winter scene backdrop. Tomorrow, I’ll take pictures of him for my holiday cards

Trader Joe’s sells non-frozen turkeys. Call to see if they still have any. You might call Whole Foods and see if they have any, too.

Edit - if you want something cheaper, here’s how to defrost a turkey fast and safely!!