If your turkey has been properly handled, you can refrigerate and eat it for up to four days. If you are planning to freeze it, it's best to freeze it within one day of cooking for optimal texture and taste. However, leftover turkey can be frozen after three days and it will be fine.
Really, of course, leftover is about so much more in life. A class reunion is an example, sadly, but too, a tug on the shoulder reminder if we're here, we're lucky. Not everyone is afforded living a long life.
Forty some tree rings ago, I worked for Eastern Airlines. Victor, remember, people RUN AWAY when you tell stories of your life. Well, Del Shannon, you just go ahead and Runaway, my little Runaway a run run run run runaway. I don't mean that meanly, I just mean, if you'd rather go have a turkey samwhich, I ain't gonna get mad.
Eastern Airlines, Kansas City, 40 tree rings (or, years, your call) ago. Eastern here had been a one horse kinda thing. Several flights a day, all, feeding major hub cities. Changed. Hub experiment here, boo koo hired, nonstops virtually everywhere.
Softball. Eastern had a softball team during the one horse era. Decent, like all the other teams. Boo koo hired, a tryout. Young pups (new hires) not really given a chance - roster stayed 'one horse' similar, soooooooooooooooo.
A new Eastern Airlines team to be formed.... The Leftovers. You can probably save yourself from ordering the paperback, kinda like a Hallmark movie on train tracks to an obvious destination - yes, The Leftovers kicked the butt of the One Horse Eastern team leaving nuttin' leftover 'cept the tears.
Holidays remind. Big ole table, the empty chairs next to us leftover. All the years we enjoyed, but, did we really pay great, great attention to all? It's not until we a leftover - we grasp that feel of "dadgumit, I REALLY wish I'da paid greater attention... OH what I'd give to go back.":
Similar, but different, when families split. Not everyone has experienced - good for you. Those that have - things change. The chairs formally occupied by loved ones, albeit inlaw loved ones - now sit empty even though we most all are very much alive. No, it will never be the same, but, at least to me, love never stops. Like much, all that's left are, leftover memories and, the love never lessens.
What's that show......... the "like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives." Much, most - fleeting - that is why (Run Forest, Victurd sermon #9,862 upcoming here).. Bite me... that is why we much 'record with our eyeballs' as much as we can. And.............
It's also why, Victor, you can't walk around like a sourpuss, OR, write like life is a pile of yuck, because, IT AIN'T. It's a thing of beauty - in spite of all that sand that has passed by.
I lay in bed most nights and the same ole leftovers of the day help make me soon study my eyelids. It/they, usually involve children, their happiness, go-get-em-ness of everything... smiles, any ole age.. fun that folks have had thru the day... interdealings with dear friends and loved ones... the beauty of nature...... and pets. Sure, there's more, but, at a quick glance - these thoughts are leftover.
Golden years. Leftovers. The fridge. Smiles, happiness, touch, hugs... much.
Enjoy your lefltover(s)....... I planta.
Love, Victurd
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