Thanksgiving Poll

Are you planning to gather your family for Thanksgiving or are you limiting or canceling the gathering due to COVID? Would love to hear your comments and ideas about how you are adjusting to keep everyone safe. Thanks.

I am first in. Sons are coming home for a few days, one will bring his GF. That’s it, daughter staying in Iowa

We may have a small gathering at my sister's, we're not sure. We've done similar gatherings in the past...We space ourselves out a bit more than we used to and my sister provides single use utensils and plates.

I'll be tested the Monday before (that's my scheduled date) and my mom will be tested because she wants to see her brother in the assisted living center....I would like the rest of the family to be tested beforehand to just be safe. Mom is 69, my sister's in-laws are in their late 70's, so I want to keep them safe...

Headed to SA to eat tacos and deep fried turkey with the fam.

The family can all come or they don't have to, just stay the he77 out of the way when the food is ready

Daughter and SIL are driving over from MS. We are very excited.

I am lucky enough to be invited to some friends house for turkey and stuff/ing.

Just Kim and I going to her momma’s house 10 miles. away just 4 of us.

Derek?

We have no family close.

We’re gathering, we’re eating some good stuff, we’re shooting, and blowing [censored] up. A bunch of us!!

no but a former member at the lake.

We are gathering as many as we can.

Hops place?

We’re going to my sisters in Katy for Thanksgiving-My Pops isn’t getting any younger-Our family as a whole doesn’t see much of each other until the holidays anyway.

Nope. Outlaws ranch

I just tested positive so ours is cancelled. Which means instead of nasty turkey it's time for ribs, sausage, etc. haha

Same. Not going to fly for some time. Didn't like to fly anymore anyway. COVID gives me an excuse not to. Plus my folks are in a Seniors Residents community in Kansas and they are not allowing outside visitors at this time. We rarely do holidays with family. So we will have our normal, just the wife and I, turkey and fixins.

Awe man, get well soon

Dang that suks. Hope you feel better/get over it soon.

I have Hop booked for Festivus.

dude, I forgot, watermelon or cinnamon jolly ranchers? sorry, but this gettin old is harder than you said it would be.

Not going to gather. Ill eat my moms homemade El Paso taco recipe(They are Mashed potato and beef, deep fried till soft, then baked with the cheese and then add toppings. My wife makes them to perfection), homemade refritos, homemade “mescan” rice. then I’ll go fishing. Then come home for seconds and thirds and fourths. Homemade sopapillas for dessert with homemade butter and homemade honey.

I only get them twice a year. Thanksgiving and Christmas. It’s a LOT of work.

There is the four in my house plus PGR and mom so we'll get together

My entire family gathering up at lake Texoma home, I think we will be over the recommended group of 10, will try to stay 6 feet apart.

Hopefully you do not lose your taste. Best wishes on a safe and fast recovery.

I voted "gathering" as I'm going to a friend's house for Cornish hens. It will be my friend, her adult grandson (millennial) and myself.

Hardly a gathering, but I'm not staying in.





God Bless America ! !

We may or may not have a gathering.

Some are worried about catching the COVID so they are not coming.

Big family gathering on Thanksgiving. Black Friday tournament on Tenkiller, then two days of football on the tv. Same every year.

Own our own here. We I was young it was nothing to have 50-60 people at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinners.

We usually have two large gathering, one with my family and one with hers. This year it will only be me, wife, son that lives with us and wife's 91 year old father.

I will not be going to the in laws gathering this year, COVID is not the reason though.

Going to be a small one. My son, older brother, and younger sister. We will have a very good time and giving thanks to Jesus for what we have.

We have no family in Texas. We are having over two small families for Friendsgiving, but all told it'll be 10 folks total.

super spreader event?

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday, this year will be the first time in over 40 years that I will not have Thanksgiving dinner with the family. Bumbed. Christmas will probably be the same.

I will be working.

Buy your Thanksgiving staples well in advance this year. I'm not sure if it's a COVID rush or a Thanksgiving rush, but the Turkey isle was about bare when I walked through the grocery store last night at my local HEB. Frankly a bunch of shelves looked sparse.

We are in Alabama, family is in Texas. Facetime will be how we celebrate together.

Sturgis all over again

As it should be.

Family is scattered all over ,Wyoming or in Florida so we're are on our own this year again. Been this way for many years. Sleep late, maybe go fish and that's it.

with the participates having on more clothes. LOL

Having kids and grandkids over for deepfried turkey and then watching the spine tingling rematch between the Plowboys and WFT.

Headed to our AR getaway and doing Thanksgiving with immediate family and a GF. Only thing we gotta watch out for is them coming from college. Who knows what they've been exposed to! Gonna hunt, eat, drink, and be merry and fat. Although, I am tired of this shiit!

It'll be our usual family gathering of everyone who lives within 50 miles and is healthy.

My wife wants to take our oldest down to the mission and serve meals.

we are going to have about 15-20

This^^^^

Same "crowd" of six we have every year.

Nothing will change for us, family coming in from out of town.

We always go to the in-laws or my family for thanksgiving.
This year is my family. So far it's still a go, maybe 10-15 people max.
My in-laws get together was cancelled yesterday after 4 family members tested positive for the virus.

We’ll be having Thanksgiving and Christmas as usual, because we don’t come from a family of flappy P’s and aren’t raising our kids to be P’s either.

This.

yep this ^^^^^ well said

Flappy?

Yep^^^^^^^^^^^^^^**

Thanksgiving day is like Groundhog Day for us. This year will be celebrated like we celebrated the last 20 years. You just don’t mess with family tradition.

Roast beef?

No change for us. This year its with the wife's family. We usually do that at our house, but this year it will be back at the in-laws. Probably be about 25 or so of us in a 3 bedroom 2 bath house, but just for the day. We all live within 30 miles or so.

Plenty of examples in the election thread.

Really wish you hadnt started this post, jusy too much long gone, hard to be the last of a Fam ily line.

Just the four that live in our house plus stepson and DIL. Which is the pretty standard Thanksgiving for us.

our family may come drop by

That's okay. Just call it a peaceful protest.

Meat curtains

Cancelled going to see parents-child in daughters 2nd grade class is positive and mom and dad to high risk to chance it. Sad that all this time is slipping by and grandkids are growing up. Mom cried her eyes out. This all really sucks.

I sold my turkey and guns to a guy named Bob at a social distance gun show last weekend.

How much did you get for the turkey?

yep, then all the lib-girls will commend you for it.

We are having our regular thanksgiving available to the family/friends that want to come-
I believe since we all seem to be able to go to the stores for things we want/need, we can also safely gather.
If you are concerned you are not pressured to come-
We will have extra sanitizer available, we have plentiful space inside and outside-
If you don’t feel comfortable shaking hands or hugging simply don’t-
We plan to have a wonderful time safely with whoever shows-

13 of us I think.....

We are going to gather and bury my guns in moisture proof containers in the backyard!

About 3 fiddy.

Flying to the Bahamas for a traditional family get-together on the beach.

Sweet

My family and friend circle is pretty small here still...at the moment we are only having direct family over. 4 people in total. So no gathering was selected.

My mom cancelled our Thanksgiving. My wife's side of the family is still on. There will be less than 10 people though, small group.

Barker Cypress HEB? That one is a madhouse all the time.

Our family is alot smaller than it has been in the past, we will continue our tradition of gathering at my house

Spring Cypress/Grant HEB. Spitt'n distance from my house. Same story though, usually a mad house.

I would like for every TFF member to participate in the poll. Also, I’d like for everyone to report how far you are from the nearest HEB. Google it if you need to please.

Voted yes, having a get together.
Nearest HEB, 21 miles.

That is the HEB we shop at. Its calmer than Barker Cypress.

2.1 miles to nearest HEB, 3.6 to second closest.

Awesome, thank you!

Thank you, you’re half there. Did you participate in the poll?

Walking distance out the back gate, 250 yards to HEB. Driving distance .6 miles.

About 2 miles. And ours has no shortage of turkeys.

Does a bear chit in the woods?

Voted Yes and there will be 6 of us together.

Unfortunately we are 23 miles to the closest HEB (Burleson).

Why yes, yes it does. My apologies for the stupid question...I didn’t even think about the bear thing.

well if RATZ would get off his backside and start up the gtgs again I bet we could fix that with a warm up at his house.

or that, depending on perspective.

from Your location
to H-E-B, 101 S Clay St, Ennis, TX 75119


2 hr 22 min (137 miles)
via I-30 W
Fastest route now due to traffic conditions

that or hachie, I heard there is an awesome crocnsock museum there somewhere. hopin derek knows.


those are the 2 closest h.e.b. to me for real

Apology accepted. Carry on.

3 HEBs within 40 miles of our place. ]

The Waxahachie store usually has MUCH better scenery Hop-
Just saying-

Put on a clean T shirt before you go!

Thanks everyone for voting and providing your comments.

I have a split vote. Her side is staying separated, my side will get together.

Hachie pulls in the Forreston and Maypearl chicks. We get Alma and Rice.

No gathering here.
With our son and family in Hawaii, (US Navy) we'll be sharing time via Zoom.

yes about 15

1200 Miles to the heb

I voted no, due to the wife deployment. Family already cam two weeks ago and we had a thanksgiving dinner. Smoked a turkey and everything.

For the real thanksgiving it will be me and my two boys chowing down on some great American food and that’s it


However with that said family live in other states

Not enough family alive to have a big gathering anymore. I feel sad my kids don't get to experience what I had with a big family. Oh well, got a couple weims to feed some snacks too! I'd vote big get together if I could.

We will be gathering, but having a small family there will only be 6 adults and 2 grandchildren. Our daughter and SIL will are going to his parents house. I would like to go to my brothers house to see him and his family but he is 6 years older than me, I would hate to take the Covid to him and his family. We will just gather there after this stuff clears out, if ever.

Is your brother Olderrabbit?

We will be visiting with another couple. Our relatives have had recent exposures to people with covid.

Only one child. Since he got married they pretty much spend every holiday with her family. It’s awesome

The word “Friendsgiving” is what’s wrong with the world nowadays. It’s called THANKSGIVING!!! It is a holiday. It isn’t up for interpretation or modification.

You are correct. I had to backtrack through this to see who used the term Friendsgiving. That is like calling Christmas "Tree Festival Day".

How about “Turkey Day”?

Exactly.

Big gathering for us. 30-40. My Mom passed away almost two years ago, she would rain down lightning bolts from Heaven if we didn't gather as a family.

It'll clear out. Just gotta stay positive.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/c...inner-party-amid-covid-spike-01605759087

You guys are ridiculous. The point is we are having friends over and not family because we have zero family within 1000 miles of here. Both my wife and I have parents who probably would not survive COVID. Trust me, I'd much rather have Thanksgiving with my actual family like most of you get to, but since that's not an option this year, we are doing the next best thing and having some friends over. I'm making light of the fact I won't get to see my family this holiday season with my word choice of Friendsgiving. If it helps any of you sleep better at night when we invited the friends over, we asked if they would like to join us for Thanksgiving dinner. Take a chill pill.

Are you not thankful for these "friends"?

For sure, but trust me, I'd rather have a traditional Thanksgiving with my family and my grandmas' cooking!

We will have Thanksgiving and Christmas no matter what these natzees say...

There’s a tendency to over-rate friends and family prior to their arrival, and then a few months after they leave holiday gatherings.

Reading this post as my elderly (over 75) Wife asked me if buying a turkey leg and breast plus containers of the rest of the meal from Brookshires.

They forgot to memtion this to me when I was younger. PLEASE, enjoy where and when you can. We all are, have or have had Parents.

Ok Jpurdue. Thanks for the clarification. I am now consuming mass quantities of chil pills.

I voted no because tbe big gathering to the close to 50 annual friends and family one is canceled.
My daughter and SIL are coming from Dallas and niece, nephew and his girlfriend, brother and SIL are all local and are doing a small one at their house. Hope to get the daughter and new SIL on a whitetail 2
while they are here.

We are having about 15 family members at our home. They are coming from Lubbock, Ft Worth, Robert Lee, and San Angelo. I had purchased a ticket for my 85 yr old Dad to fly down and join us but decided to cancel his flight after speaking with him. It wasn't an easy decision, but I believe the correct one at this time due the risk.

We are having Thanksgiving Dinner today as my son has to work next weekend. 19 lb turkey just went in the oven and son is still sitting in the blind waiting for something worth shooting. I will likely gain some hefty weight! lol Chocolate Meringue, Pecan, and pumpkin pies! whew

Gathering but small.

Dude is a complete clown

Careful Bob. You do know that chill pills are made from the devil’s lettuce, right? And that’s a gateway drug. Too many chill pills and the next thing you know, you’re strung out on the dope, living in a dumpster behind a liquor store, hoping that jensent comes by and takes pity on you, and throws you a $20 so you can get your next fix of chill pills.

I've always wanted to live in a Maytag refrigerator box under I-45.

On the plus side, your property tax bill would likely drop significantly.