Happy Thanksgiving day also to all Canadian Garden Web members and happy Columbus Day to our American friends. We will be having Thanksgiving on Monday at my daughters. My son-in-law, the chef, likes to put on dinner parties, so it will be quite a feed. I am spending the rest of the weekend cleaning up my garden and getting ready for winter. The forcast says we are supposed to get sn** next weekend. I hope not. Cheers Al

Rosefolly, you said that so beautifully, thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here, may every joy visit your heart on this and every other day. Most of all I wish everyone much love and contentment for all the good things your life may hold.

We've had turkey at Christmas sometimes, but more often a beef or pork roast, depending on what we feel like. We do Christmas Eve at my house, just my family, so we have leeway to do what we want any given year without too much outside griping lol, and we like to mix things up. Sometimes we go Italian and do lasagne, bruschetta, italian soup, a fish; sometimes we do the Feast of the Seven Fishes, other years we've gone Slovak and had a buffet of halupki, kapustnica, pierogi, halushky, etc. We've even started with the oblatky and had the extra place setting. (although we go more traditional American with the desserts when we do Slovak - prune or poppy seed cookies just aren't my thing lol). And no carp in the bathtub lol. I do draw the line somewhere! When you grow up in such a multi-ethnic family as I did, it's nice to have so many traditions to draw on - and even to borrow from others that have nothing to do with you! Most people I think do have the Friday after Thanksgiving off. Obviously medical personnel, retail workers, etc, have to go to work but it seems to me most people have it off. But then many of us are back to work on Saturday! :) Dee

Thank you, carol and fun2Bhere. The weather has been glorious this weekend. We had a kubie roast and went for a long bike ride yesterday. It was a beautiful day. Just right. 🙂 I’m making a big dinner the weekend after next when family will be here.