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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 11:16 am
Gosh, it just seems like a week or so ago that I was posting here about Canadian Thanksgiving. Hard to believe a year has gone by already!! Monday, Oct. 11 is Canadian Thanksgiving (always the second Monday in October) and I just wanted to catch everyone before they might leave town.

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Skootz
Member
07-23-2003
| Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 12:00 pm
thanks Jan, I am not leaving town for Thanksgiving. Well, sort of, on Sunday we are going to my moms place for the big turkey dinner (YUM YUM) My entire family will be there, which will be nice as we are really trying to all get together at Thanksgiving as we are not able to all get together at Christmas. Monday, will spend the day with the family at home. Don't think I will make a turkey diner,but will have something nice for us all to eat (including Pumpkin Pie) I will be also watching with the kids the annual October Fest Parade live from Kitchener, Ontario at noon. What is everyone else doing for the weekend?
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 12:42 pm
I'm going to a friends for dinner. YUM YUM ! It's not the turkey I care about. It's the stuffing!!! (and the potatoes and the Pumpkin Pie) Picture me licking my lips! 
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Kellirippa
Member
07-10-2002
| Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 1:03 pm
Hi Fellow Canadians!! I am heading out of town for Thanksgiving. I'm making my Saturday pot luck contribution and pies as we speak. Fall has come and gone here in Alberta, just bare branches and leaves to rake, and hope springing eternal that the white stuff doesn't fall (again that is, we had some in early September!) until after Halloween. It can come November first and leave Boxing day..and it would suit me fine. Hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday with something truly wonderful to be thankful for!
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Lumbele
Member
07-12-2002
| Wednesday, October 06, 2004 - 2:53 pm
Yikes, this Monday already? How did I miss this? Better get a move on then.
Wishing you all a great holiday! <give Kelli the Nov. snow and send it over here in December til just after New Years, please>
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Djgirl
Member
07-17-2002
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 6:13 am
I'm staying home most of the weekend & painting the kitchen and maybe even the livingroom if I feel ambitious enough. My entire family is getting together at my aunt's place on Sunday for our traditional family smorgasbord! I'm making a cabbage roll casserole - oh the days when only our mom's brought stuff! just kidding!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 8:09 am
T for time to be together, turkey, talk, and tangy weather. H for harvest stored away, home, and hearth, and holiday. A for autumn's frosty art, and abundance in the heart. N for neighbours, and October, nice things, new things to remember. K for kitchen, kettles' croon, kith and kin expected soon. S for sizzles, sights, and sounds, and something special that abounds.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 8:39 am
Acrostic above source
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Jan
Member
08-01-2000
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 9:40 am
What a great Canadian site, Vee!! Thanks for bringing it to our attention. The Canadian spelling should have been a clue to me that you didn't compose it All that info on the origin of our Thanksgiving was new to me, I have to confess .
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 9:41 am
Happy Thanksgiving!
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 10:05 am
Yes, Jan, that and the "October" mention! When my niece went to Dalhousie, she picked up all those Canadian spellings and still uses them. Drives me bonkers! 
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Lkunkel
Member
10-29-2003
| Thursday, October 07, 2004 - 1:00 pm
I already did one trial run for Thanksgiving on Sept. 22nd. As part of my Mabon Ritual, I do a smaller Thanksgiving feast. (Mabon is the Second Festival of Harvest and is a time for thanksgiving, meditation, and introspection.) This is one of Potshot's favorite holidays to celebrate with me! Instead of turkey, we had Cornish hens, but, otherwise, it's our traditional menu: a green salad; smashed potatoes with gravy; glazed carrots with dill; my homemade cranberry sauce (generally the last jar that I canned on the previous Family Day); the mini muffin basket: zucchini, banana, and blueberry; and for dessert a Marie Callander Razzleberry Pie and Reddi-Wip. On a bright spot, we have one complete extra meal, several muffins to freeze for breakfasts, and glazed dill carrots on which to snack. And, of course, the thanksgiving box surfaces. From Mabon to Thanksgiving, we write things for which we are thankful and put items in the box, we review them on Thanksgiving and share them with each other. (I just go over to the teacher store, and pick up the calendar cutouts and use them.) I do love it--it makes the holiday last longer and, I think, gets to the essence/origins of the holiday.
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Sunday, October 10, 2004 - 9:19 am
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Vee
Member
02-23-2004
| Wednesday, November 17, 2004 - 4:46 pm
Oops! My error! This was for Canadian Thanksgiving.
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