More Thanksgiving dinner

Mom cooked a huge feast and Mary and Juan came over. We had it out on her patio, and it was blamy and nice. We took Mary home about dark-thirty.
I made the gravy thoward the end, when things get kind of hectic. Mom had boiled off the giblets and had the juice and chunks in a jar in the fridge. Soon as I opened it and got a whiff….!! Whew, something was not right. I took it out to let her sniff it and she declared it okay, but what does she know, she can’t smell anything except all those cigarettes she smokes. But she was getting agitated and testy that I would question her broth, so I just went ahead and made the gravy. I’m not there to fight. There was a day I would have dug in my heels and made a stand, but those days are over. You should see her, she looks so frail these days. None of us is getting younger, we don’t really have time to fight. So I made the gravy, gagging all the time, I really boiled the heck out of it so at least I could kill off some of the buggies. A few people ate the gravy, mostly the drunken Mexicans and Mom.
The non-drinkers, not so much. Nobody seemed worse for it the next day. NV diet pills should be made out that stuff, but they are not, of course.
Mom made home-made bread rolls that made me really jealous. Hers turned out so great!! But it was all white flour, still….. I was envious. She said it came in a pre-measured package with the yeast separate from the flour and she added the liquids from her own larder. The bread was a hit. The whole meal was great (except the gravy). She really knocked herself out.
My dental was good, Dr. Socorro did a deep cleaning (it had been a long time, over a year) and checked everything out. She decided that my teeth were pretty good and we made plans for one more of the old fillings to come out in December and she can build a bridge to fill the empty place next to that one. Almost all my old fillings are replaced with nice white porcelain caps now.
Dra. Socorro’s phone number from the U.S. is 011-52-638-383-4898. She’s great!