The "ABCs of BBM": Round 965! (Rules in first post)

[Toast]

After the turkey Alma maneuvered Ennis into the kitchen and tried to hava a heart-to-heart chat with him about his marital arrangement.

[Fran]

Alma appeared to be in a naggy mood during Thanksgiving dinner, particularly when Alma Jr. and Jenny were enjoying Ennis's company.

def. = irritable; touchy.

[Ellemeno]

Alma's tone of opprobrium in the kitchen made Ennis feel like a turkey.

def: reproach mingled with contempt

[Toast]

Alma made sure the family was properly fed, but they didn't have to enjoy the company of Ennis.

[memento]

After dinner, Ennis helped Alma clean up the dirty dishes and the uneaten remainders.

[Fran]

He had no serious hard feelings, just a vague sense of getting shortchanged, and showed it was all right by taking Thanksgiving dinner with Alma and her grocer and the kids, sitting between his girls and talking horses to them, telling jokes, trying not to be a sad daddy.  After the pie Alma got him off in the kitchen, scraped the plates and said she worried about him and he ought to get married again.  He saw she was pregnant, about four, five months, he guessed. 

[story]

[Toast]

Story Ennis was tolerant of Alma's verbal attack on him until she reached the outing stage:

"Don't lie, don't try to fool me, Ennis. I know what it means. Jack Twist? Jack Nasty. You and him -- "

She'd overstepped his line. He seized her wrist; tears sprang and rolled, a dish clattered.

"Shut up," he said. "Mind your own business. You don't know nothin about it."

"I'm goin a yell for Bill."

[memento]

The Twists and the Newsomes had a colorful Thanksgiving sitting on mauve upholstered chairs.

[Fran]

After his altercation with Alma on Thanksgiving, story Ennis "didn't try to see his daughters for a long time," volitionally cutting off contact with Alma Jr. and Jenny.   

[Ellemeno]

The turkey festooned with what appears to be thyme has a wing about to be basted.



(Considering where that thyme is stuck, maybe when Jack later said, "Never enough thyme, never enough,"  he was referring to high-altitude scarcity.  The turkey would be a good symbol of that, itself never reaching a high altitude, no matter how hard it flaps its wings.)