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Hope you all find something to be thankful for in this crazy assed year. What are your plans? Mine just took a dump-the younger son is a type I diabetic and asthma patient. He and his girlfriend are going in to lockdown mode and don't want to do anything. She's concerned the salon where she works will shut down Friday, thankfully my son has a job that easily transitioned to working from home.
My older son will be on duty at the firehouse, his wife and kids plan on staying home. I'm just hoping the weather will cooperate and be warm enough for a motorcycle ride that day. I'll have a nice bottle of bourbon waiting for me at home if it does-actually it'll be waiting even if I don't go anywhere LOL.
My sister lives alone, she may want to have dinner but she also has immunity deficiencies so we'll see how that goes.
Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday-first world problems I know but this shit is getting old and pissing me off. Rant off.
If I get my way, I'll go antelope hunting.
I'm going to go over to another member's house and harass his family. (Well, several of us are)
blacklabel
11-18-2020, 22:39
I'll be headed up to WY to spend the day with family.
Fentonite
11-18-2020, 22:55
Happy thanksgiving.
Probably either be trying to fill my mule deer archery tag, fly fishing Cheeseman Canyon, or maybe in Boise eating turkey, who knows. I’m single and not too many options for getting together with anyone else around town as everyone seems to be just fine going back in to lockdown mode again.
StagLefty
11-19-2020, 08:39
Going on you tube and see if there's a virtual turkey dinner [ROFL2]
Martinjmpr
11-19-2020, 09:03
My wife hates thanksgiving so we usually go on a camping trip. In 2015 we went to Big Bend National Park in TX. In 2016 we went to Tucson and in 2018 we went to the Gulf Coast of Texas.
Last Thanksgiving we had a special celebration at my dad's house because he had just been diagnosed with ALS and we knew it was likely his last one.
This year we're hooking up the trailer and going to Grand Junction. I'm about 3 1/2 years from retirement and we're scouting out places to go after we no longer have to live in the Denver area. Grand Junction is at the top of our list.
My wife, and I, (and my immediate family) feel the same about Thanksgiving. The best Thanksgivings I've ever had were when my family went to Las Vegas as a kid, and the whole family went to Glenwood last year.
newracer
11-19-2020, 10:15
My nephews was coming with his wife and kids but they have decided to stay home. My two sons will be home and this likely it. It sucks because Thanksgiving is probably my favorite holiday and I enjoy spending time with my family and friends.
BladesNBarrels
11-19-2020, 10:21
Smoking a Turkey on the Pellet Grill/Smoker, Wild Rice, Peas.
Just my wife and me.
The family had all agreed a month ago that the risk wasn't worth it to gather and potentially spread a virus that is killing so many.
We will celebrate when an effective virus or treatment is available to everyone that will use it.
We're planning on heading to Wyoming to see the in-laws. My wife was just talking to her mom about whether or not her cousins are invited to keep attendence lower. I voted "no" on account I prefer fewer people in general.
Great-Kazoo
11-19-2020, 10:58
Dinner at a neighbors house, with a few other people .
cableguy11
11-19-2020, 11:08
This is actually the first time we will have family over. My Nephew and Niece are station in the Springs and are coming up for the weekend!
hollohas
11-19-2020, 11:20
Don't tread on my turkey. https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20201119/5321976ae570057111ed956834ecbb65.jpg
I?ll be trying to fill my buck tag this weekend and the 4 days of Thanksgiving weekend, if unsuccessful this weekend. My wife is not making a big meal this year. We are just going to eat turkey sandwiches or a frozen turkey dinner.
mindfold
11-19-2020, 13:24
Heading over to the western slope (Crawford)to hangout at the family ranch. This will be our 5th trip over this year. We bring the camper and enjoy the grounds. Ponds/fish for the kids and fire pits for the all.
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My dinner plans went from 10 to 2. Still doing a full spread, just downsized. Never done a "downsized" turkey day. [Dinner]
Great-Kazoo
11-19-2020, 16:41
My dinner plans went from 10 to 2. Still doing a full spread, just downsized. Never done a "downsized" turkey day. [Dinner]
More for you and your guest and leftovers.
Little Dutch
11-19-2020, 16:57
I would really like to go back to Craig and try to fill my elk tag that weekend. Logistical issues make that unlikely though.
I'll likely just cook a bird and make some sides for my nuclear family. Maybe try to take everything over to my mother-in-laws so she isn't by herself.
I'll probably spend Thanksgiving waving a 9' piece of graphite, just like the pilgrims did in days of old (fly fishing).
BushMasterBoy
11-22-2020, 14:38
Drinking a quarintini and avoiding covidiots. Happy Thanksgiving! Or taking.
GilpinGuy
11-22-2020, 22:38
We have a few Thanksgiving gigs to attend. I'm not cooking this year which is unusual. We'll be bringing some things but I'm used to doing it all and loving it. Cooking is my thing.
And just a PSA:
1 Easy Tip For Abiding By Your Governor's Holiday Restrictions (https://babylonbee.com/news/1-easy-tip-for-abiding-by-your-governors-holiday-restrictions)
[Dinner]
We're on lockdown right now. Daughter confirmed 'Rona on Tues. Wife, son and I were tested on Fri and waiting results.
So we ordered King Soopers delivery on some items and delivery from the caterers associated with the wife's job and we'll whip up something here just for us infected/maybe-infected folks. We decided to postpone Thanksgiving with my mom and wife's parents til summer. Maybe we'll do a 4th of July + Thanksgiving bash?
Great-Kazoo
11-22-2020, 23:10
We're on lockdown right now. Daughter confirmed 'Rona on Tues. Wife, son and I were tested on Fri and waiting results.
So we ordered King Soopers delivery on some items and delivery from the caterers associated with the wife's job and we'll whip up something here just for us infected/maybe-infected folks. We decided to postpone Thanksgiving with my mom and wife's parents til summer. Maybe we'll do a 4th of July + Thanksgiving bash?
sorry to hear this.
Maybe call it Forthgiving ;) best to you and the family.
GilpinGuy
11-22-2020, 23:13
sorry to hear this.
Maybe call it Forthgiving ;) best to you and the family.
Forthgiving! BBrilliant! Good luck Ramsey. Make the best of it.
sorry to hear this.
Maybe call it Forthgiving ;) best to you and the family.
Might have to go with this and make t-shirts.
Forthgiving! BBrilliant! Good luck Ramsey. Make the best of it.
Thanks! Yeah . . . kinda sucks from a convenience perspective if nothing else. Daughter has been pretty mild, but she's lost her taste/smell. She's pretty chipper, though. I was the only other one who has been symptomatic at all and that was basically pretty mild sniffles/congestion on Wed/Thurs. It's since pretty much cleared up. I hung Xmas lights today and feel fine. But based on having some symptoms, I'm going to be a little surprised if I don't get a positive result back. Hope to find out in the next couple days.
I told my wife that if I ended up dead, she had to promise me that she'd put something on my gravestone like: "How dangerous could hanging Xmas lights be when you might be COVID positive?, he said."
She wasn't as amused as I was. Gallows humor isn't her thing.
GilpinGuy
11-23-2020, 00:18
[ROFL1] LMAO
RblDiver
11-23-2020, 03:58
First year in a while I won't be going with my family to my aunt's place. They're still going, but since I'm in contact with my gf and her daughter, and my mom is absolutely paranoid about it all (she is in the age bracket and has potential comorbidities, but even so, overly paranoid imo), I won't be joining 'em. (To be fair, my aunt and her neighbors are also very up there, so the only one not too vulnerable going is my sis, but she's been holed up with my parents for a while so is considered safe).
So, with only three of us, we're going to attempt something. I did a Thanksgiving dinner back in college about, oh, 16 years ago, and we got all the dishes...just not at the same time :P I have a feeling this year'll be the same. I'm planning on doing a ham instead of a turkey, but will be trying mashed potatoes and gravy, cranberry sauce, croissants, stuffing, and the gf's going to do green bean something.
We typically gather at my in laws but they?ve cancelled that so the kids and their significant others will be coming to our house for food and fun. We?ll have the traditional turkey and a ham and all of the fixings. Should be a nice day considering everything going on in 2020.
bellavite1
11-23-2020, 06:50
Thankful we don't have to see my wife's fucking liberal family (yeah, every single one of them), especially this year...
And the wife will be making home made pizza!
BladesNBarrels
11-23-2020, 09:11
Thanksgiving 2020
https://i.imgur.com/xvw7SUb.jpg
Posted in the 'Rona thread, but . . . son, wife and I all got our test results back tonight and we were all negative!
So, the really tame "symptoms" I've had (little runny/stuffy but has lessened quickly) must be something else. I started having those on Wed and was tested Fri. Can't imagine there'd be a false-negative PCR test with some actual junk up there.
ChickNorris
11-23-2020, 22:02
Posted in the 'Rona thread, but . . . son, wife and I all got our test results back tonight and we were all negative!
So, the really tame "symptoms" I've had (little runny/stuffy but has lessened quickly) must be something else. I started having those on Wed and was tested Fri. Can't imagine there'd be a false-negative PCR test with some actual junk up there.
Genuine question here... are you disappointed? I think I would be
Genuine question here... are you disappointed? I think I would be
I have to admit (and I told my wife as much) . . . I was a little torn as to what I was "hoping" for. On the one hand, I sorta just wanted to check the box, be positive and be over the damn thing and know that I was probably covered for at least some period of time. Also that my immune system could beat it. But at my age (52--albeit in pretty solid shape) I wasn't in a hurry to press my luck.
I've been totally OCD with masking and sanitizing outside the house. N95 on when I'm at stores and the gym and hand sanitizer in my pocket. When our daughter tested positive and was at home, I had a lot of people say it was inevitable that the rest of us would get it. We all masked up at home immediately upon having a suspicion that my daughter was exposed and we regularly sanitized like fiends. So I guess the other part of me is pretty happy that we had it in the house and avoided it in the end.
it's not impossible that because you were careful you had a small enough viral load to not get it full-blown. I'm not sure if that is possible with covid, but it may be. That wouldn't necessarily make you immune now either, kind of like the Germans didn't win the war at dunkirk... just the battle. But it did mean that we had to bring a lot more shit the next time we invaded :p so it doesn't hurt!
it's not impossible that because you were careful you had a small enough viral load to not get it full-blown. I'm not sure if that is possible with covid, but it may be. That wouldn't necessarily make you immune now either, kind of like the Germans didn't win the war at dunkirk... just the battle. But it did mean that we had to bring a lot more shit the next time we invaded :p so it doesn't hurt!
Yeah, I mean in the end . . . it's a good result for sure. We're all happy and relieved. It's very weird times. Does sort of give me some confidence that N95s and being careful/consistent with hand sanitizing can maybe be an effective barrier.
My wife and i will be alone. We will trade some side dishes with a couple up the street just for pseudo get together. They are in their mid 80s and are being cautious.
Hope everyone can make the best of a bad situation this year and enjoy the day as much as possible.
We put the turkey in an herb brine today and will begin smoking it with a small venison roast on the Weber Smoky Mountain smoker tomorrow morning. We always prepare a traditional turkey dinner with all the accouterments. Since moving to the cabin a few years ago our Thanksgiving has been my wife and I and our good neighbor Charlie. Lots of leftovers are worth the work. Smoked turkey pics coming tomorrow in the smoker thread.
TEAMRICO
11-25-2020, 19:28
Hey Denver, anyone seen your Mayor??
Our plans are still a go.
Just read an article that the CO Dept. Of Health is asking Colorado residents to cancel all gatherings.........NOPE!
Great-Kazoo
11-25-2020, 23:21
Hey Denver, anyone seen your Mayor??
Our plans are still a go.
Just read an article that the CO Dept. Of Health is asking Colorado residents to cancel all gatherings.........NOPE!
He apologizes, after being caught. For the politicians and elite, it's ok. The common peon, here's your fine for violating our orders. Of course he will face minimal repercussions from anyone on the city council. Let along the voters.
eh, once again I don't base my decisions on what the state does or does not want me to do. Likewise, I'm not 'protesting' by doing the opposite. Just do what is smart in your individual circumstances, and realize it is real. I've got a sister sick now, aunt just passed away, uncle in the hospital, no f'n way am I risking more family lives by bringing everyone in a tight room in the middle of this. All they have to do is wait a few weeks, and this too shall pass. I wouldn't let any of them ride a roller coaster with 1/200 chances of death either, and the vast majority (including myself) have close association with at risks that would most likely get it if we do. Polis isn't going to see if I do or do not give a shit what the state says, it's not like the British are going to drive through the streets to determine pockets of resistance from the king.
I will be delivering some of my normal food so they don't miss out.
YMMV. good luck with each of your respective holiday plans.
A few weeks?
Colorado has been under restrictions of some sort for the better part of a year at this point. It will not be a few weeks to normal.
8 weeks out to government employees having vaccine options and probably about 12 weeks for the general public. Which will also coincide with the exit of winter... even with low uptick, spring will see such a dramatic reduction in cases that it will be stupid to maintain further measures going forward, except to encourage voluntary vaccination from any of the available options. that doesn't mean the state won't mandate something, but once again, who cares? The risk will be severely reduced at that point to not overly worry about it anymore.
Happy Thanksgiving.
I?m thankful for some of you clowns.
Also not thankful for some of you as well but you can?t all be winners.
StagLefty
11-26-2020, 08:17
Happy Thanksgiving.
I?m thankful for some of you clowns.
Also not thankful for some of you as well but you can?t all be winners.
Happy Thanksgiving Ray have a safe one !!
Great-Kazoo
11-26-2020, 09:33
8 weeks out to government employees having vaccine options and probably about 12 weeks for the general public. Which will also coincide with the exit of winter... even with low uptick, spring will see such a dramatic reduction in cases that it will be stupid to maintain further measures going forward, except to encourage voluntary vaccination from any of the available options. that doesn't mean the state won't mandate something, but once again, who cares? The risk will be severely reduced at that point to not overly worry about it anymore.
While the possibility of people getting a vaccine (not a cure) The issues already being raised around 1 pharma's results. Should cause concern for those who will be among the first selected for a shot. While this is going on, i received an email from the VA, saying there were looking for volunteers for a trial run of a vaccine.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/astrazeneca-manufacturing-error-clouds-vaccine-224815678.html
1st off.
FUCK YOU handcock and all the stupid assholes that voted for you, you motherfucking lying sacks of shit.
2nd
I hope my company doesn't require me to get the vaccine before we can return to the office, I don't know yet what I'll do if they say "you're fired if you don't take this shot".
Had to laugh about little Mickey-my 73 yr old sister, a hard core lib, even got pissed off at him. She is immuno compromised-though takes great care of herself and doesn't look her age, is staying safe without going nuts-is exercising caution but was furious when she heard about his trip. I just laughed, said that's what you get in Denver. I'll never live in that city again after moving out 34 years ago.
Great-Kazoo
11-26-2020, 10:09
1st off.
FUCK YOU handcock and all the stupid assholes that voted for you, you motherfucking lying sacks of shit.
2nd
I hope my company doesn't require me to get the vaccine before we can return to the office, I don't know yet what I'll do if they say "you're fired if you don't take this shot".
FOR SALE 2100sq ft townhome . Problem solved. Except for that pesky pay check. However what i see happening around the country is thousands of small business are unable to weather this current round of closures. As well as the ripple effect of their not employing anyone.
While the possibility of people getting a vaccine (not a cure) The issues already being raised around 1 pharma's results. Should cause concern for those who will be among the first selected for a shot. While this is going on, i received an email from the VA, saying there were looking for volunteers for a trial run of a vaccine.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/astrazeneca-manufacturing-error-clouds-vaccine-224815678.html
I'm not going to be first in line either... but a lot of people will. Even with 40% of the people vaccinated (libs...) it would cut the spread tremendously - R would drop a lot. Probably to the point it often burns itself out without spreading by mid-spring. I will eventually get one after watching the progressives for a month or two to make sure there's no issues like brain swelling or anything. then again, it may be hard to tell when looking at a progressive...
Aloha_Shooter
11-27-2020, 09:02
I will eventually get one after watching the progressives for a month or two to make sure there's no issues like brain swelling or anything. then again, it may be hard to tell when looking at a progressive...
120% of 0 is still 0. I don't know that the time table will be as fast you're anticipating, especially if the regressive Stalinists/Maoists are able to steal the various elections as it looks likely. They LIKE the lockdowns and the powers they are getting to exercise -- although I expect they would start to lift them in the late spring/early summer so they can attribute it to Biden instead of Trump.
I'm headed home (Hawaii) to visit the family and work remotely. Making it a long stretch since I haven't taken a vacation this year and am nearing my use-or-lose cap. Hope I can get tested 3 days before travel and get results before I fly so I won't have to do a 14-day quarantine when I get there but will still likely do a 3-5 day quarantine even with a negative test just to make sure. As you said earlier, I'm not taking a 0.5% risk against my loved ones just to protest.
TEAMRICO
11-27-2020, 09:14
Well, that?s over. Now the was on Christmas begins.
It never stops.
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