The latest craze for Thanksgiving is deep fried turkeys. This HAD to have been invented in the South. They fry any and every thing in the South – and it usually tastes damn good, too.

The problem with deep frying turkeys is that you have to use a lot of very hot oil in a big pot that can tip over or spill over very easily. This usually causes someon’es house to burn down because these dumb rednecks don’t understand that hot oil spilled on a wood deck equals big fire. So if you are cooking a turkey in a big tub of hot oil, please use your brain and put it on a surface that cannot catch fire.

Wow – we got a blast of artic air down here! It’s freakin cold!

Usually I only have to wear a coat in January and February. I wonder if this is just going to be an anomaly of a winter for us and be colder and longer than normal?

It was so cold this morning getting into the car that I was at the interstate before the heater started blowing warm air in the car. I was having to hold my hand in front of my face and blow on it to get it warm enough to grip the icy cold steering wheel and then switch hands and blow on the other one. I’m not liking this cold weather AT ALL.

Ever since I was a teen and accepted babysitting jobs on Friday nights, I have been bored out of my mind with Friday night TV. The shows are awful – it’s the worst night of the week. Plus, if you are stuck in someone else’s house watching kids, it is even worse to have nothing good to watch. So I usually have 4-5 VHS Tapes and DVDs in my bag to watch if I can’t find anything at all on cable.

When I was active on a certain gaming site, all of my online friends were either pirates or wenches. It was quite fun to fantasize about being a wench. To say bold and flirty things that you would never say in real life was very liberating. It was fun being saucy for a couple hours each night. I miss that, but that group of friends dispersed when the site administrator flaked out on us.

Last year we had a new ice cream plant open up in Nolensville to service the grocery stores in this area. The ice cream was originally made in Texas, but they decided to start expanding a few years ago. I’m really glad that Blue Bell ice cream came here. This is the best ice cream you can buy.

I know a lot of people really like Ben & Jerry’s, but to be honest, those are more about the extra junk they put in the ice cream, like nuts and chocolate and cherries. The Blue Bell ice cream is more about really creamy, homemade taste in the ice cream itself. The flavors don’t overwhelm you, and I’ve tried tham all and like them all. My favorite is strawberries in homemade vanilla.