Back to the grindstone!

After devoting most of yesterday and Wednesday to the Thanksgiving meal for the crews, we find ourselves playing catch up with our regular work. The pay cycle has started again, and that means we are hard at it trying to have checks ready when those guys come knockin'. Then on to the truck and driver settlements for Monday.

It is a good thing because trucks are running way behind! It would take five bale trucks running all day just to catch up, and that is exactly what we need to do because they are predicting more rain/snow/sleet for tonight and tomorrow night. If were to have a problem with the weather with the numbers we have on hand right now it would be a train wreck! I know from all my years out here how important it is to keep up and if you get behind, how critical it is to "make hay while the sun is still shinin'"! If we have a weather window, we had better take advantage!

The Thanksgiving meal was a big success! I am unsure how many we fed, 102, 104, 98, 96. There are varying counts depending on plate count because some people took plates to their roommates and may or may not have used an extra plate to cover the "take out". This year was pretty easy it seemed. Rian doing the turkeys and hams was a real blessing, and his securing the other supplies from his commercial vendor was a big help. Frank and Nancee were top notch. Krl supervised the dressing and Frank and Nancy poured ingredients and mixed it. People would probably think we are crazy because we mix it in a big plastic storage tote! We all acted as hosts and hostesses which allowed for each of us to kind of float in and out. Rian's expertise in catering was put to good use as he policed all the different dishes and kept them fresh and full. Kristy cooked rolls along with Nancee and Felipe's wife (36 dozen), and Kristy put together the fruit salad (O.K. we told her it was the office manager's duty). I think all of us iced glasses and sliced and served pies. Once again we used the turkey fryer to the max and still have not cooked a turkey! (We boiled chickens, squash and warmed forty five pounds of creamy deluxe potatoes (in a bag)).

All told, it was a great success due to it being a joint effort by so many. Best news is, it is a year until we will do it again.

Last night we bagged up some ham and turkey, several pies and two loaves of bread and sent it into the plant. We will do the same today!

When we had emptied all the roaster broasters and other serving trays the GM came in and told us we had had a hard day, to sit it aside and Roy and his assistant could take all of them Friday morning and wash them and return them to the meeting room and then we would go through them and determine where they needed to go.

And to think earlier in the day I had nothing to be thankful for?

I am in no hurry to haul our stuff back to the travel trailer because it is a pretty good job to store all of it. I guess we look like a party waiting to happen. One show time rotisserie oven, four broaster roasters, two warming trays, one huge cast iron skillet and of course one turkey fryer! All of these are permanent fixtures in our storage.

Hope your holiday was a good one!

FATHER bless this day!