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Okay! The house is surprisingly clean. (Craig stayed home today instead of tomorrow.) The shopping has been done. (Except I have to pick up the leg of lamb tomorrow, and I didn't find any chestnuts. Which means I can probably drop the collards by dianthus's... and I'm not sure how disappointed I am to miss the chestnuts. They're amusing, but a lot of work.)

The turkey is defrosting. Tomorrow morning (not that it will be defrosted yet) it goes into it's brine. And the lamb goes into a wine brine as soon as I get my grubby little hands (no, very well scrubbed hands, thank you) on it.

Right now, the allium free borscht (I figured having a chance to play with the seasonings when I could concentrate on it and then reheating it beat having it fresh and taking up an extra burner -- sorry J!) is simmering, the mushroom-barley stuffing for the squash is too, and both the spelt and wheat bread is rising.

Which means that tomorrow I brine the meat, make corn bread and cube the corn and spelt bread for stuffing, prep veggies for borscht, and possibly make the vegetarian broth for the vegetarian dressing. Oh, and maybe make garlic flags. And maybe make spelt pie crust. And if I'm really peppy, get the front porch cleaned... (nah!)

Which should leave me fairly serene on Thanksgiving Day (a cause to give thanks right there) and might even let me go to class tomorrow.

The cold seems to be getting better.