Welcome November
By Anna
@LadyDuck (458233)
Switzerland
November 1, 2017 8:42am CST
I hope you had a great Halloween night.
We had a simple dinner with spicy chicken wings and a "Bloody Mary". I thought it was an appropriate drink to serve on this unusual night.
This is the photo of our Halloween table, as @peachpurple asked to see it.
Now it's time to welcome November.
The flower of this month is the chrysanthemum, the birthstone the topaz and the Zodiac signs are Scorpio or Sagittarius.
On this 1st day of November:
- catholics celebrate "All Saints Day" to honor all those who have no special feast day.
- In 1776, Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in California.
- In 1993, the European Union came into existence as a result of the Maastricht Treaty.
Have you something special to celebrate in November?
Our American friends celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday November 23.
Anything else in the other countries?
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@DianneN (246840)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Your table looks very inviting, especially those appropriate drinks! lol
We have two November birthdays and will celebrate them at Thanksgiving for two of our sisters-in-law. In addition, we will celebrate our older son's birthday, which is in early December. We will be in Florida by then. I'm sure our newly married son and his wife will regale us all with honeymoon tales, since he will return from his honeymoon days before Thanksgiving.
Happy November!!!!
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@JudyEv (325818)
• Rockingham, Australia
3 Nov 17
@lnillerman I don't follow baseball at all so I don't know about the strike.
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I did nothing special yesterday.
We have 2 holidays this month in France, today for All Saints Day and on Nov 11th for the armistice of WW1.
@arthurchappell (45002)
• Preston, England
1 Nov 17
an ordinary month for me though I get some paid work later this month
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
1 Nov 17
Beautiful table, there is a birthday and an wedding anniversary this month for me. Sadly it's my best friend in the world who passed away before she turned 21 and my parents both deceased. On the same day oddly enough.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
1 Nov 17
@fishtiger58 My mom birthday is in December, still Sagittarius.
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@fishtiger58 (29823)
• Momence, Illinois
1 Nov 17
@LadyDuck Yes my best friend has been gone for over 30 years now I have many great memories of her. I have good memories of my parents as well, they raised me right and were very loving.
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@GardenGerty (157555)
• United States
2 Nov 17
My children, my sister and my brother were all born in November.
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@responsiveme (22926)
• India
5 Nov 17
Wish you a very happy( though belated greetings) birthday and a great year ahead
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
1 Nov 17
the birthday of my brother yesterday was widely celebrated in the entire world, and there were no office and classes as well. as usual too, it was raining.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
2 Nov 17
@ridingbet I see, but the All Saints Day is not about birthdays, but about the St Patron that not all people have.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
2 Nov 17
@LadyDuck no, it is celebrated by the whole world because it is the All Saints' day, or maybe Halloween in other parts of the world. same with his son whose birthday is on May 1st, which is Labor day of Arbor day. that is his joke; he says there is no office or classes when it is his birthday.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
1 Nov 17
I've never drank a Bloody Mary and got curious as to why it is so named. There are a number of stories as to how the name came about.
However, this is what Wikipedia states: "the name in English simply arose from "a failure to pronounce the Slav syllables of a drink called Vladimir"[11] gains some credibility from the observation that the customer at Harry's Bar in Paris for whom Fernand Petiot prepared the drink in 1920 was Vladimir Smirnov, of the Smirnoff vodka family."
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@crossbones27 (48434)
• Mojave, California
1 Nov 17
The day before Veterans day is the Marine Corps Birthday. You also make good Bloody Mary's I can tell. 
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@crossbones27 (48434)
• Mojave, California
2 Nov 17
@LadyDuck That's cool, you have lived in a lot of countries. Pretty cool Europe gets along so well or used to that people could do that. Now with all the terrorism and economic greed it seems Europe is starting to become like us. Every man and women for them self. Sad, they always say, do not let the bad people win, but kind of think they are with how all this hate that has been coming to life around the world.
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@LadyDuck (458233)
• Switzerland
3 Nov 17
@crossbones27 Some European countries are still not too bad, others have become more dangerous. Greece is in a deep economic crisis and Italy is not in a good shape.
@antonbunot (11091)
• Calgary, Alberta
1 Nov 17
I hated Halloween night this year - - snowy and cold! Our grandchildren had to go to the mall to trikatrik! (That is how my 5-year-old grandson pronounces)
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@JESSY3236 (18923)
• United States
1 Nov 17
Today would have been my aunt's birthday. So I celebrate it. We have Thanksgiving and Black Friday.
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