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#1 of 8 Posted Oct-11 3:35 PM

From Mary Staley Posts 80 Last Nov-21
To All [Msg # 196692.1 ]

Wishing all our" Canadian Friends" a Wonderful and HAPPY THANKGIVING on Oct 12th 2009 I hope your day is blessed with Family and Friends and lots of fun and joy and peace on this day of Thanksgiving in Canada!!

Mary in Alabama

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#2 of 8 Posted Oct-12 1:11 AM

From elandandoug Posts 18 Last Nov-24
To Mary Staley [Msg # 196692.2 196692.1 ]

Thank you, Mary, for your good wishes.

My wife and I will go out for dinner at a local restaurant--it will of course be turkey followed by pumpkin pie. I'll eat my share as an expression of my thanks for the many good things I enjoy even though neither turkey nor pumpkin pie are high on my list of culinary delights.

Ciao,

Doug in Vancouver, BC

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#3 of 8 Posted Oct-12 3:04 PM

From Mary Staley Posts 80 Last Nov-21
To elandandoug [Msg # 196692.3 196692.2 ]

You are welcome Doug for the Thanksgiving wishes Turkey is not one of my favorite foods either only when its cold and sliced for sandwich later maybe the next day Pumpkin pie is ok can take it leave I wish our Thanksgiving was in Oct instead of 3 weeks before Christmas seems like we have Thanksgiving turn around and it is Christmas I do wish you and your FAMILY a wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving Day may your day be filled with lots of blessings

Mary in Mobile Alabama

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#4 of 8 Posted Oct-12 3:12 PM

From Mary Holland Posts 936 Last Nov-24
To Mary Staley [Msg # 196692.4 196692.1 ]

Thanks so much, Mary, for your good wishes. My son [&his dog] came for dinner yesterday [Sunday] since it was more convenient and less traffic than today! It's our traditional turkey and trimmings dinner but I don't do a whole turkey anymore - just the parts! Saves having to get someone to lift it all out of the oven!! Geoffrey likes drumsticks so I do 4 of them - 2 for dinner and 2 to take home with him. I also roast boneless thighs and a rolled breast roast. Add the stuffing, roast veggies, mashed potatoes [for Geoffrey], gravy and cranberry sauce and it is just great. And yes, the pumpkin pie an hour or so later. Even the dog had a tin of 'Thanksgiving Dinner' which was full of turkey, apples, carrots and other goodies. It actually smells and looks good enough for humans.

I agree that our date for Thanksgiving is much nicer - yours is far too close to Christmas for my liking. I think ours was originally based on the church's Harvest celebrations and we certainly wouldn't be getting the harvest in come November. I guess it would be quite different in the southern states though.

Thanks again for you wishes,
Mary in Vancouver, Canada.

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#5 of 8 Posted Oct-12 4:45 PM

From elandandoug Posts 18 Last Nov-24
To Mary Holland [Msg # 196692.5 196692.4 ]

I thought I might see a post from Vancouver Mary--glad to see that all is well with you to the point where you can whip up a little turkey for your son.

Your post and that of Alabama Mary reminded me that one of my professional colleagues, older than I am and also long since retired, used to have a Canadian Thanksgiving up here on the coast with his family, and then within the week head south in their fifth-wheel trailer and be resident in a RV Park on the north side of the freeway across from Palm Springs in time for American Thanksgiving.

Ciao,

Doug

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#6 of 8 Posted Oct-12 8:27 PM

From Mary Staley Posts 80 Last Nov-21
To Mary Holland [Msg # 196692.6 196692.4 ]

Mary you are welcome for the Thanksgiving wishes it would seem you had a wondeful day with your Son I am most sure he enjoyed the day I total agree with you on our Thanksgiving day being in November to close to Christmas but I didn't chose the day or Month lol and Thanksgiving in the South is most time warm sometime even hot humid yuckie weather as for as the Harvest its over by then or it use to be in my days now you can see cotton in fields in December they have machine to pick the cotton it seems such a waste if you could see how the cotton looks most of the farmers do have the crops of cotton did by November I live in the City now for 56 years only visit my home town once in while see all my relatives who still there today here in Mobile we have the A/C going hot humid muggy rain all day not sure what happen to my beautiful Oct cool weather!!! guess my next post will be Happy Halloween lol my hubby has relatives who live in Canada in or near Vancouver B.C my son in law Parents was born in Canada I have did some genealogy for him quit interesting for sure lol I hope your days ahead is filled with great things lots of blessings to you and your Son

Mary in Mobile Alabama

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#7 of 8 Posted Oct-12 8:36 PM

From Mary Staley Posts 80 Last Nov-21
To elandandoug [Msg # 196692.7 196692.5 ]

Doug now I call that thinking ahead lol two Thanksgivings sounds great if one is visting and not cooking for a family lol one Thanksgiving Day is enough for me even tho I don't cook for my family me and my hubby each year now go to one of our daughters home for the day we all live in same town so its nice after Dinner we all gather at one of the other daughters home for pies-cake coffee all goodies each of us bring some goodies and we have a wondeful family gathering most all my children and grandchildren and great grand kids are there except the one in the Marines he was in Iraq for the past two Thanksgivings he is back in USA for the moment and hopeful he will be with us this Thanksgiving Day and for Christmas Holidays one can only hope!!!

Mary Mobile Alabama

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