Talk about shaved turkey...

For those of you that enjoyed the Great Easter Debacle I mentioned earlier this year, note that Thanksgiving is off to a different, yet equally cursed, start.  While the oven is actually working this time around, I ran into a new issue.  After washing the roasting pan and all the platters I intend to use this afternoon, I grabbed a dishtowel from the usual place.   (For the past 30 years, I can recall that clean, if a tad bit damp, dishtowels were always placed on the radiator in the kitchen so that they could dry a bit faster.)  Imagine my surprise when after drying the roasting pan, the turkey rack, and a couple of platters when I noticed some big black streaks on the bone-white platter I dried last.  Upon taking a closer look, I realized that it was a large amount of cat hair.  Hmmm, that's strange... how did that get here.  Oh look, the non-white dishtowel I was using had a fair amount of the stuff camoflaged in with the pattern!  When I asked mother dear how this happened, she stated that since my deceased sister's cats came to live with her, she covers some of the furniture in dishtowels because the cats always sit on them.  She also places these dishtowels on the radiator as a reminder to her to bring them downstairs to be laundered.  Oh, I'm sorry, my bad, apparently a 30 + year long behavioral habit was totally changed and nobody bothered to inform the chef where the clean dishtowels were now kept.  Needless to say I then re-washed and re-dried the roasting pans, rack, and platters.   What other mysteries await me today... only time will tell.