So we are beginning preparations for Thanksgiving dinner. 

The first dish done was the cranberry sauce.  I bought a few bags of cranberries yesterday, grabbed the "Betty Crocker Cookbook", and had at it!

(Making a double batch) I boiled 4 cups of water, and 3 cups of sugar.  Once the water was sufficiently boiling, I added 8 cups of cranberries.  Five minutes later, I ended up with some really tasty cranberry sauce.  YUM!

(I hope that my guests like cranberry sauce.  I sure made a lot...)

The second prong in my thrust has to do with a nativity scene that I saw yesterday at the grocery store.  The scene consisted of several mannequins, many wearing false beards.

You have to love them for trying, but I couldn't help but visualizing the scene in "Monty Python's Life of Brian", where women had to wear false beards in order to attend a stoning.  Judge for yourselves:

Happy Holidays!