Happy Thansgivin' Canada!

Subject: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Biskit
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 01:29 PM

According to my "The Far Side"Calender. Today is Thanksgivin' Day in Canukland,I would at this time like to send my love an' best wishes to our cousins to the north. What are the traditions up that way?? Turkey eatin"? family gatherin"?? Peace"Through Understanding"-Biskit-

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Peter T.
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 02:15 PM

Wa'al thanks. We have the whole shebang up here, turkeys and things, though that is really an American import (it used to be more British fare); but it isn't totally obsessive as in the U.S., where if you don't get together with your family you have obviously become a communist drug addict. We save that for Christmas. It is quite a nice holiday in Southern Canada, since the leaves are still on the trees in many parts, and people head out to gawk at the colours.
yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Rick Fielding
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 02:26 PM

Why thank you biskit! Duckboots and I went over to our friends Greg and Cathy for a delicious (no onions!) turkey dinner. We get our "kid fix" at their place. They have three of the cutest and luckiest kids on the planet. Lucky, because their parents are instinctively the best at that job that either of us have ever seen.

This morning I was dressed and ready to go "walk-about" to the music stores when I was reminded that Thanksgiving Day actually is a REAL holiday, and said stores would be closed. Bummer! Been reading and listening to some Bluegrass...hmmmm, maybe I'll start a thread.....

Rick

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: RichM
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 03:10 PM

Thanks Biskit.

We are having a turkey supper, albeit a pre-stuffed purchased turkey breast( no carcass to deal with, yay!)

Company will be a good friend of my wife's and my mom. My son will be here too, but he lives here!

After a leisurely morning, Sue tucked the turkey into the oven, and we went for a short walk in the glorious autumn fields and forest.
I am listening to Lenny Gallant now-fabulous entertainer-and contemplating a second beer.

To all my fellow Canadian MudCatters, Happy Thanksgiving, and to you-and all other mudcatters- , my wishes that you cherish the things in your lives for which you are thankful.

Rich

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: black walnut
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 03:31 PM

thanks! it was time for a break, and this is a nice thread to have it with....

i was just out in my new garden. it's a real fall day, cool and threatening frost and snow....the serviceberries and dogwoods are turning red, the chocolate-leaved eupatorium is covered in white flowers, and the false spirea and currants are yellow, as are some of the maple leaves hovering overhead. i still have blooms on my 'mexican hats' and new england asters. it's pretty nice back there....

tonight it'll be our family of four, plus 3 inlaw's, for turkey dinner tonight. we'll have turkey, wild rice and mushroom dressing, gravy of course, cashew and peaches and sweet potatoes casserole, green beans with almonds, mashed potatoes, homemade cranberry orange sauce....followed by apple cranberry crumble and whipped cream for dessert! yum!!!

the kids helped clean the house and set the table, so we're just about ready.

my teenage son, unfortunately, just went out with his dad to a funeral of a classmate...a friend who was killed in a car accident on his way home from volunteering at a hospital last week after school. such an event, on a day like this, truly makes one thankful for the important things in life....

today is jewish yom kippur as well. while my family is together being thankful, my friend jeff's family is together being repentant. added together, we figure it's probably a pretty balanced combination.

for the rest of the afternoon, i'll spend some time with the harp and the dulcimer, and perhaps set up the fireplace for our first evening autumn fire ....

~black walnut

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Mooh
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 03:42 PM

Well thanks, all! Happy Thanksgiving!

Had our dinner yesterday, with the assembled family, and went to church where there was a blessing of animals as it was also close to when we celebrate St Francis. Took my dog, great fun. Went for a walk in the woods with my sisters and my kids, and generally had a peaceful good time.

On a sad note, we, as a family, took our three generations to a private place and returned the ashes of my father to nature. I know we've done the right thing but it still hurts like heck. In a way, Thankgiving is the perfect time for this because we can remember with thanks Dad's life, love, and service.

Always trying to have a sense of humour about things, someone pointed out that Dad would think that at least the turkey won't have to go as far anymore.

It even snowed, which is unusual at this latitude at Thanksgiving. Most of the leaves have yet to fall and by midweek it will be quite mild.

We always get together at Thanksgiving. Tradition and habit and impulse, and a way of marking the passing years with a sort of return to one another.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: sophocleese
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 04:22 PM

Well Happy Thanksgiving one and all. Due to scheduling difficulties we had our family dinner on Saturday. Usual Turkey dinner stuff followed by Pumpkin pie, blackberry and apple pie and treacle tart. I must remember to wear looser fitting trousers to these things.

I spent a lot of this weekend at a nearby craft fair. Various members of our local folk society were providng live music for the fair. A nice barn with trails around it for walking along when I wasn't singing. The weather has been a bit grey and damp, I did not like the snow on Sunday morning, but the leaf colours are lovely.

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 12:42 PM

RichM:

I tend to regard turkey as something you eat in order to get to the carcass, which I always make into homemade turkey noodle soup. (Noodles homemade too) My soup ensures that my daughter Monika will come visit us for supper.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: catspaw49
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 12:48 PM

How typically Canadian. You have scheduled Thanksgiving for the wrong day of the week and not even the right MONTH!!! What's the matter with you folks? Completely pathetic..........

And PT...Are you saying you can only become a communist drug addict on Christmas? Hmmmm....I need to get my letter into Santa right away..........

Spaw

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: GUEST,John Leeder
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 12:51 PM

Turkey dinner at our place Friday with my kids, another Sunday at my sister-in-law's with some of Marge's fgamily, then a music potluck Monday for a friend's 50th birthday. It's been a full weekend...

Subject: RE: Happy Thansgivin' Canada!
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 02:11 PM

No turkey here. I took advantage of the holiday to visit my oldest friend who moved to Montreal about five years ago. Bagels, some fabulous Quebec cheeses, some wonderful Quebec Fish and produce from a farmers market within walking distance of his home. Saturday was spent at the Art Museum viewing a special showing of Monet, Renoir, Picasso and a few others. Jazz at Biddles on Sunday. Being from Scarborough originally, before this weekend I couldn't even spell kulchered, now I is.

The trees were absolutely beautiful.

Thank you Biskit for thinking of us.