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Luckily Nashville has many of 24 hour restaurants so I can get good food even when I'm piss drunk at 5am.

As for turkeyday it's easiest to go to honeybaked ham and get some damn tasty turkey and ham. Thats what we do every year.

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Sounds like the way we do it. The pasta consists of Lasagna. The newbs usually stuff themselves on the antipasto and the Lasagna is the topper never making it to the Turkey.:r

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When we do Thanksgiving at my brother's house, we smoke cigars and shoot clay birds from his deck. Always a great time.

Cheers,
G

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Usually at the inlaws and they are Italian. Homemade raviolli, bracholli, meatballs...that is the first course..then the turkey and stuffing..then about 6 homemade pies..then I feel like I am gonna die.

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You know you had a good Thanksgiving when your layed out on the couch and you feel like you are going to burst if you move too much and you can no longer hold a buzz because the alcohol just gets soaked up as soon as it hits your stomach.:r In my family we refer to the fullness as "Wedding Full":D

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We do a traditional Thanksgiving the whole family comes to my house for turky,stuffing,cranberry sauce and pumkin pie the the men head to the LR for Football and my wife gets out all the christmas decorations. But this year is going to be a little diffrent Thanksgiving day is me and my Wife's 10th wedding ann so after dinner her parents are going to take the kids for the weekend and after Black Friday shopping we are hedding to the Poconos for the weekend

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That's a great idea. Some romantic time w/out the kids is just what the pastor would order.

Of course, that could add to the...
...oh never mind...

Peace of the Lord be with you.

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My daughters birthday is the 27th, so we try to combine the holidays in to one venture. When she's older that wont be as possible but for now it's a great excuse for family to come to town.

My In-Laws who reside outside of Buffalo usually drive down for the week. Sadly this may be their last time to do so, as they are not getting any younger and with various health problems (both in their mid 70's).

My mother comes up from Arkansas as does my Step Dad. We usually have it at our house in Missouri.

Every year my mom makes the Turkey and I make a bourbon and brown sugar ham. The recipe is my own. My wife makes a big birthday and Thanksgiving cake.

My daughters request for her birthday is always the same: the family puts up the Christmas tree while we are all together.

So Thanksgiving for us becomes a multiple holiday celebration in the course of three days.

It's a grand time. My Father - In Law and I spent evenings and mornings on the porch with cigars, coffee or cigars and Sam Adams. My daughter works on sculptures with my mother in law and chooses the colors of her cake.

It's a lot like Thanksgiving from when I was a boy, a large family gathering, but we have scattered to the winds now.

Still, probably my favorite time of year.

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I think we're going to watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in the mancave tonight! Glad I can be a part of one of your traditions!!!:tu

Oh... And you'll be there... Turkey!!!:D

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Open Invite:
For anyone that is in or near the Winter Haven, FL area...you are welcomed to come by eat and have a smoke in the "man-cave"...Larry and I would love to have you come by. Please PM myself or Larry (Ogre3239) for directions and time...

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I've already got my smokes picked out!

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:r:r:r Thanks Brother

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My only real tradition is that I roast a duck, not a turkey.

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Not much. Typically a HUGE dinner with the my large family. Sooo many things to eat. A new tradition is me bringing kegs of my homebrewed beer.

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YES! Finally I don't feel weird! Before my mom moved up to Wisconsin we had the same thing happening at our house. My grandpa was born in Sicily. We had some of the best holiday's ever. Sadly, those don't happen anymore due to the death's of my grandpa and my mom.

Sledn and I used to shoot darts every Wednesday night before Thanksgiving. There is a big dart tournement every year. Now, we go to Sledn's parents house every year. Early dinner. Home and I continue decorating.