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Making Your Thanksgiving Feast a Success, Tips from Patrick

Thanksgiving is coming and Patrick is concerned that people will be too distracted by the onslaught of Christmas music and advertising and neglect their Thanksgiving feast preparations!

Tips on planning your Thanksgiving from Master Patrick Hamel 

Today we were in the car going to pick up The Man from the train and I flipped through the radio station and found that WLIT 93.9 has turned on the Holiday Lite.  This means from now until Dec. 26 it's all Christmas music, all the time.

Patrick does not approve.

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What You Should Be Doing Now by Patrick:

Well you know they shouldn't be playing Christmas songs now, and like, you shouldn't be focusing on buying presents for Christmas now. 

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You should be focused on food. What kinds of food you are going to buy?  Get dresses and clothes if you are going to be fancy for Thanksgiving.  Don't forget to get silverware and Thanksgiving decorations like pictures of pilgrims.  You should invite family members and people over for Thanksgiving and get everyone nice and clean for it.

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On the turkey front I see that Target has turkey for 79 cents a pound (limit two) and small local supermarket, Fairplay, has Premium Butterball turkeys (and a mighty fine website) for 98 cents a pound(limit one).

Or you can go totally organic and free range with your feast, by having a special Thanksgiving box of organic fruit, veggies, herbs and a plump free range turkey delivered from Timber Creek Farms out of Yorkville.  We get an organic produce box delivered from Timber Creek and it's always full of great stuff to play with, even if I don't know what the heck it is that I'm going to be cooking with before it arrives at my door.

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