T-Day and total exhaustion

Food and drink consumed:
Peanuts
Avocado-crab cucumber canapes
Scotch on the rocks

14-pound turkey barbecued over peach tree twigs
Mashed potatoes with giblet gravy
Dried-fruit-and-nut couscous
Herb-roasted squash
Stir-fried bitter collard greens
Candied yams
Sauteed mushrooms
Corn and bell peppers
Baby vegetable salad
Merlot

Fruits (papaya, kiwi, honeydew, pineapple, oranges)
Organic pumpkin pie
Green tea

Games played by the young people:
Halo 2
Star Wars
Five in a row (checkers)
Scrabble

Miscellaneous highlights:
Went for a trail run for the first time ever this morning. 50 minutes of pure am-I-going-to-survive-this.

Finished making most of the side dishes and dozed in my brother's room for 20 minutes while waiting for Dad to finish barbecuing the turkey.

Melody, on her way to the fruit platter after dinner, was sidetracked by some leftover cranberry jelly. She took a slice and added a small mound of mashed potatoes on top, for good measure. My kind of girl.

Went to surf the Web for a bit after dinner, and returned to find everything cleaned up and leftovers put away in plastic containers. After chaos, cleanliness.

Made turkey stock, blogged, and am heading off to bed now. A good day.