Yes, I stayed a Girl Scout at age eight just because I thought that selling those cookies would be glamorous. It wasn’t and neither was my leader, who laughed at everything I did to gain a badge.
But I didn’t go into non-profits and food for nothing, not to mention government. As a fellow consultant once said, “God is in the details.” And while I’m great at the big picture, I’m nearly as good at the details (OK I had to buy sugar and bread crumbs and Kosher salt this morning…).
So I will have a list for the car, the cooler (including lunch and beverages), family, gifts, cooking class, our luggage and the dog. This ties into the Girl Scout motto of being prepared. And I just finished wrapping all the gifts and have mac and cheese with great cheddar in the oven. Forgot the extra milk but made do. And tomorrow I have to clean the car, pick up the doggie prison mesh to keep her in back, go to lunch with my friend Trish after finding her spare pair of glasses at a neighbor’s, finalize those lists and make sure husband Jim picks up dry ice on the way home from work. And laundry, laundry, laundry.
Phew! I’ll be glad to get on the road. I usually drive the first two hours through traffic. Jim takes over for the long boring highway part. Then I take us through Dallas and country highways to turkey-land.
How is your planning going? If you were a girl scout, were you prepared? Let me know. I’ll check in tomorrow before Jim packs up three laptops and three cell phones and I pack up the car, dog, and us.
It’s a complicated world we live in, but when you’re in the middle of no-where and need wireless, having the right cell phone will get that laptop online. At least then we can find out what movies are playing in town! Dee
Cooking with Dee 
Movies, that’s a good idea.
We now have rosemary, lemon thyme and oregano, fresh. The school girls were asking me how to make the boursin today. I loved what M had to say, ” I like to smell one herb and then another and see if I think they will go together.” We commissioned a neighbor to smoke a couple of briskets so my load for cooking will be light, just make dozens and dozens of potato rolls. And, of course, the drink of the south, iced tea. (unsweet for us, add your own sweetener as needed). Tomorrow we will see what yearling heifers on the hoof are worth, not enough as we are the ones selling.
Thanks Margie! I love your potato rolls and unsweetened tea. And brisket. Perhaps Margie can share the potato roll recipe with us one day. She may have to actually give us timing instead of “after services,” which means the rolls should proof through church, which is different for each religion.
Did you folks know that both ice and sugar were signs of high society generations ago? Sugar was not readily available and there was no refrigeration. So if a neighbor asked you over for iced tea, sweet tea, it was high praise indeed.
And Southern sweet tea is different than unsweetened tea with sugar or sweetener. Boiling the tea with sugar changes the molecular structure. I still can’t drink sweet tea. I prefer herbal unsweetened.
The herbs will come in handy, M. I’m packing up today, at least the food portion. Dee