Thanksgiving in May?

I've never cooked a turkey before, and I was really hoping to cook my first Thanksgiving dinner last year, but the fact that I was 41 weeks pregnant at the time I opted out. I have always been a little worried that if I were to just go for it on Thanksgiving that I would somehow manage to screw up the turkey, so I decided that last Sunday I'd do a trial run on the turkey. Yeah it was a lot of turkey, but you just can't beat left over turkey sandwiches.

Anyway I had a good ol' butterball turkey in my freezer that I managed to thaw without a hitch, but then came cleaning it out. To my surprise and dismay this bird, still had feathers!!! NO kidding. Now I am a novice at this whole thing, but I was under the assumption that when you buy a turkey at the grocery store they've pretty much taken care of all that for you. I was juggling this turkey around, got it all rinsed and then I seriously had to find a pair of pliers to yank the feathers out ( no I did not put them in my hat). I've never had the opportunity to be that up close and personal with a turkey before and I can't cay that I'm looking forward to it again.

Long story shortened Turkey came out great - so I was told anwyay, I was rather proud about that. So a couple days later I called Butterball about the whole feather siteeashun and thery're sending me another turkey - without feathers this time. Yeah, me . ( No that is not a picture of my turkey, this one was compliments of google - mine looked way better :)