Cooking class, This year’s Thanksgiving journey
Last night on the way home I picked up Monique once again. She had agreed to show me how to make tortillas from scratch. We had to make a pit stop on the way to the house to get maseca which is the corn meal base that tortillas are made from. In the past I had asked Monique if she wanted to try driving the Tesla which she declined. I asked her once again when we exited Walmart, she surprised me by saying she would give it a try. She was very cautious but did a good job getting us back to the house safely.
I gave Monique a tour of the back of my property, she did not realize that I had built the fence myself. She really likes my property and all of the open space it has. The tortilla prep was interesting. The most important thing was seeing what the consistency of the dough should look like and how long to have them in the pan to cook. We wound up enjoying the meal as we finished up watching one of the Halloween baking shows that I can’t get enough of.
It’s very cute how Elsa has now warmed up to Monique. At one point she jumped up on the sofa between us and was giving Monique kisses. Monique loves animals like I do so it made her happy too to have Elsa accept her. Elsa rode in the back of the Tesla when I took Monique back home after 9. It was a different and fun night. I ordered myself a real tortilla press so I can make some respectable looking tortillas on my own in the future.
A week or so ago my brother Todd mentioned the idea of me going up to PA for Thanksgiving. I hadn’t really thought about traveling for Thanksgiving since I am still hoping to get out to LA before the end of the year. However as I looked at the calendar I realized that I could actually do both, more than likely. I would once again drive my Tesla like I did last year on the trip to Texas. What I would not do is constrain myself to as compressed of a timeline which made the driving part of the trip sort of miserable, especially going there.
After confirming with Todd that this sounded ok, I would leave early Monday morning and then arrive in PA sometime Tuesday evening. I would have the day before and after Thanksgiving to enjoy and then push back south Saturday morning. I only will use 4 days of vacation time for the trip (I would take the following Monday off as well) and the driving 1200 miles up and back should be at a much more relaxed pace. With no chickens to care for any longer the only accommodations I had to make is to make sure Alison can watch Elsa and ask my neighbor to grab my mail, easy stuff. I think it will be a cool little adventure for me to look forward to.