We Had a Lovely Turkey Day - Turkey and a Beloved Movie to Top Things Off

 I hope all of my US readers had a wonderful Thanksgiving Day. I had a turkey in the oven for much of the day, and it turned out PERFECT! I was delighted. DH and I are looking forward to the left overs for a few more meals. He spent most of the day in the computer room playing his on-line game, which allowed me to be in the kitchen, undisturbed, playing various solitaire games on my phone while basting the bird every 20 minutes. 

The turkey turned out spectacular. I used my plant-based 
butter to melt, and added an herb mixture to it. It was really 
tasty. I also had my hand-made cranberry sauce. I skipped 
stuffing but I think DH might have made some for himself. 
One thing I did that I hadn't done before, was cut up an 
onion and put it inside the turkey while it cooked. It helped 
keep the meat really beautifully moist. 

After dinner and the dishes were done, he announced he wanted to watch "The Fellowship of the Ring" since we hadn't seen it in quite some time. What a delight, to re-enter Peter Jackson's world of Hobbits, Elves, Men and evil entities. Of course there are things I don't like about the triad, but generally, the first movie, that wonderful visit to Hobbiton, ending with grief in Lorien ... there's nothing much better. It has aged well. 

I always enjoyed the first of the Trilogy the best - 
in the books, as well as in the movies. There's just 
so much of Middle Earth to explore, and it isn't 
all battle, battle and more battle. LOL

I'm trying to get to the swimming pool today. We have the first day of our two-day inventory reduction, after Thanksgiving Day sale today. We changed things up quite a bit for this year's sale. We're not reducing the price on our seed beads at all. I'm sure we'll still sell some of them, but we're focusing on larger beads and Swarovski crystal beads instead. So, we'll see how we do. It's a BOGO, which is also a much larger sale than we've done in the past. I am hoping we'll be super busy. 

I'm not fond of sales, but we do a major sale every Black Friday 
and Small Business Saturday. We changed things up a bit 
this time - no seed beads are included (although we're happy 
to sell some - LOL). We're focusing on larger than seed beads 
for both days of the sale this year. 

DH was busy on our huge ladder yesterday, replacing light bulbs, so hopefully we've got some good lighting around the place today. I'll need to print our our Holiday Hours handouts, and I'm hoping to get some of the sparkling garland up, but if not, I'll get to that tomorrow. It's not that important. I will have to print out a copy of our customer email to remember exactly what's on sale today - LOL.  

Sol I'm off to the pool. Have an excellent Black Friday and I'll be back tomorrow to wrap up the week. Slava Ukraini.