thanksgiving was great

Thankgiving was Great! My parents came over to the house. It was one of the best Thanksgivings ever.

Here is what we had:
Turducken
Oyster Cornbread Dressing
Snap Bean Casserole
Corn Macque Choux
Sweet Potato Casserole
White Chocolate Bread Pudding
Pumpkin Pie
Apple Pie

The Turducken was great. The trukey, duck and chicken with creole stuffing was the best. Here is the link to the Cajun Grocer: www.cajungrocer.com


If you cannot see the link, then click in the title to this topic to link to the Cajun Grocer. I encourage anyone interested in a great holiday feast to order a Turducken.

Schnuck's Grocery also has Turducken in the Meat/Deli section> Their version comes from Destin Ice Meat Company.

Ready for the thanksgiving Turduckhen

To be different this year, we ordered a Cajun Turduckhen for thanksgiving.

For those of you who have never had such an item, it is Boneless (except legs & wings) Turkey stuffed with boneless Duck, and that is stuffed with boneless chicken, and that is stuffed with dressing (in my case, a creole dressing). It is a great meal!

We will also have BBQ Smoked Chicken from Hays Smokehouse in Lexington.

We have 3-4 side dishes planned and White chocklet bread pudding for desert.

My dad is fixing up his Milan house and getting ready for the movers set for December 4th to move his stuff from Crossville to Milan. With dad and his wife in the area, I am glad We planned a big Thanksgiving meal

I'll post on what everyone thought about the Turduckhen.

I stopped by St Mary's in Savannah and St Andrew's in Lexington, wile returning home.

I stopped by St Mary's Church in Savannah and St Andrew's Church in Lexington, while on the drive home from Savannah.

The 2 year old church in Savannah, St Mary's reminds me of a smaller version (very small) of St Paul's in Memphis. Fr. Tom Kirk did a great job putting the plans together. Compared to the old church built by Fr Celestine (Pfanstiniel) is like night and day. I'll bet Fr Celestine is both smiling from above and thinking to himself how nice it is.

I stopped and prayed at St Mary's in Savannah. It is a very prayerful place.

I made a special stop over in Lexington at St Andrew's. Fr Pugh worked with me when I was a kid on my Boy Scout Pope Pious XII religious award. He had people waiting on him there. He had at least 3 individual or couples and one he was already in conference. I will make another effort to stop by on Thursday.

It appears from looking in that Fr Pugh is trying to soften the drab concrete look (floors, walls, fountain) of St Andrew's. If memory serves me, it was built with an Extension Society grant during Bishop (now Cardinal) Stafford's tenure as Bishop of Memphis.

Mentioning Cardinal Stafford, it is amazing that nothing has been done in his honor with recognition of his ascent to the status of Cardinal. There is a lot of stuff in Memphis connected Cardinal (Cardinal Stritch), but nothing connecting Cardinal Stafford with his tenure in Memphis. Go figure!?!?!

To rural Catholics in West Tennessee Cardinal Stafford probably spent and developed more in the rural areas than has been done by others. So being a longtime rural resident and remembering things like the storefron Parsons & Lexington churches, the old church in Savannah built mainly by Fr Celistine hands, and the old house in Martin TN that Fr Schola used for the handfull of catholics up there in the 70's, I have to thank Cardinal Stafford for his willingness to invest in the rural areas.

Both churches in Savannah TN and Lexington TN are fortunate to have such talented priests. To me both are brilliant and spiritually strong priestly ministers. Rural West Tennessee's gain is most assuredly Memphis' loss. I still miss Fr Tom Kirk on that old show, "What is your Faith". Add Fr Joel Schultz, Fr Mickey, and Fr Hood....it seems the rural area has the best of the best priests.

Dad partially moved stuff to Milan TN

I spent some time with dad, while he was moving some of his stuff. Dad is in the process of getting his Milan house painted and he has moved some of his stuff to the house. He is selling his Crossville TN house.

In an interesting turn, the neighbor that lives across the street from dad is Catholic.In fact is second wife is Baptist, and my dad's second wife is Baptist.

That reminds me of when Annette and I bought our first house. Counting our house, there were four catholic families in a row (the Holloways, Pruitts, us, and the Farrahs). What are the chances of that happening in rural West Tennessee?

I have a sudden trip to Savannah TN tomorrow.

Talk of unexpected situations, I just found out that I have to go to Savannah TN tomorrow. Savannah is about an hour & 15 minute drive through very rural West Tennessee.

It will be an all day task of driving, meeting with 3 classes, and returning to Jackson.

If I can relax and pace the drive, it will be a leasurely and beutiful drive through some very pretty fall scenery.

Went to a meeting in Columbia TN and the drive was beautiful!

I had to go to a meeting in Columbia TN as the Community College in Columbia. Usually, from Jackson, I take 412 into Columbia. This time we were on a school van (9 of us) and we traveled I40 to State highway 50 and traveled Highway 50 to Columbia.

The weather was beautiful. It was breezy and the trees are turning colors. It was a wonderful drive.

The conference was on "Critical Thinking". As with any conference there were moments of interest and very boring moments. Each presenter had 15 minutes to preset a method of using Critical Thinking in the college enviornment. Counting the Keynote speaker, there were 12 presenters from 10:00 to 2:30 with a break for lunch.

The return to Jackson drive was also beautiful. The trees are really starting to turn and show colors.

Busy Weekend!

I am going to a critical thinking workshop in Columbia TN Friday.

Dad is moving a van load & Trailer load full of stuff saturday to his new house in Milan TN, so I will help him unload.

Annette is working on a paper all weekend (I have to stay out of the way).

(hopefully) Sunday is a day of rest.

I had some projects planned, but I may deffer them to help dad unload.