Thanksgiving Chicken

So today Amanda and I are celebrating our first holiday together in our new house. And what a spread. As you can see we really went all out this year and made sure we got all the traditional fixings to go with the wonderful rotisserie chicken I spent 30 seconds picking out at the store this morning. It was tough. There were four chickens under the hot lamp at Smiths and I picked the one with the least scabby looking skin. Delicious!
When I got it home, it went right into the warmer of our vintage stove. Thankfully the warmer and two of the burners work on the stove. The oven doesn't work, but that doesn't matter. Luckily Amanda is really good at warming up yams and making Stove Top stuffing. She worked so hard on the dinner this year. I think she must have spent ten minutes slaving over the stove. In fact, she spent as much time working on dinner as she spent repeating the phrase "Thanksgiving Chicken" and laughing to herself as we sat down to write this post.

I have to say though, my absolute favorite part of the entire Thanksgiving dinner was last night when Amanda decided she was going to have a piece of pumpkin pie before the day even got here. That's why there is a slice missing from the pie. When she took her first bite last night she commented on how delicious the pie was, especially since it was still frozen.

After dinner we decided to set up our tree since we didn't do that at all last year. That part was a lot of fun. We played Christmas music and set up our little tree. One of the little glass balls broke and I had a shard of glass sticking out of my thumb, but other than that it went great.


Amanda took some picures of me as I set up our nativity set. The three wise men are MIA. Not sure where they could be. So I guess the shepherd is in charge of the gold, frankincense and myrrh this year.
We had a lot of fun and have been laughing about how funny our dinner was all day. Next year we'll have to plan it out a little better.

Spent the night recording a song

It's an "adaptation" of Israel, Israel, God Is Calling. It's one of my favorite hymns but when I was ready to record the vocals I couldn't remember all the words so I just made up some of my own. This hymn always makes me think of what it must have been like for Appleton when he was in England on his mission in the 1850s. It also makes me think of how much there is in my life I need to work on.

Anyway, to listen to it click here.

finally

This is the front



This is the back


and this is the garage.


Sorry it took so unbelievably long to get photos of the house up. The inside is all torn up right now because we are having the wiring redone. It will be finished tomorrow. So you'll have to wait until then. Or next month at the rate we've been going lately.

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Some new music

Between the recording session in Colorado, and some personal stuff on my own, I've been recording a lot lately. It's been fun.

Here are a couple for you to check out. Just click the song titles.

The Tall J Stomp

The first is from the session with The Willkills. It's an instrumental I wrote a few years ago that we played when I was in the band. It was really cool of them to let me record it with them.

Down The Mountain.

For this one I got the help of some friends from the website MacIdol.com. I play all the instruments except one of the synthesizers, which is played by Dave who lives in Liverpool. The singers are from all over the world, which is pretty cool. The guy who starts the song off is named Mark and he lives in Iceland. Then a guy named Stuart from Ireland comes in. All told, people from Iceland, Ireland, England, Italy, Australia and various places around the US helped in the song. I love how the internet makes things like this possible.

Hang the DJ

Today my music blog is featured on the super cool Planet Mondo blog!

You can see it here.

A while ago I was invited to put together a mix for this blog. They often have "guest bloggers" for the weekly Funky Friday posts, and today I get to be the guest.