Thanksgiving!
By pergammano
@pergammano (7682)
Canada
October 10, 2009 6:30am CST
Happy Thanksgiving, to all myLot Canadians! My wish is that your harvest is bountiful, and your weekend safe!
Now, at the risk of offending my dear, true Global friends, and especially those of the United States...what I am so THANKFUL for is that our traditional Thanksgiving is so much further from Christmas than yours! I, many times, wondered yesterday, how you cope, having such a HUGE celebration...less than a month before Christmas? I, maybe wrong, but it seems like you must live a frenzied pace for two months?
Even thinking about the financial/energy outlay, must be overwhelming! Over the years, our home has attempted to closer to harvest tradition, eating foods that are readily available..now! This is the time of year we can START harvesting shellfish, so that's oft the menu, with wild birds, local fruit, etc. Please share your typical Thanksgiving menu...and your tips of coping with two large celebrations back to back! And I truly do have great respect for my Southern friends, juggling this act. Have a wonderful weekend, all! Cheers!
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@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
20 Feb 10
I hope that you had a wonderful thanksgiving day. Being a European Thanksgiving day is something a bit "alien" to me. I would be grateful if you can explain what thanksgiving day is all about. How did you celebrate it this year?
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@pergammano (7682)
• Canada
21 Feb 10
Agriculture is/more-so WAS, a way of family existence for early settlers in North America! Because we have distinct seasons, usually four...Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall! Food crops, sustainable crops, of course always planted in the Spring..tended to in the summer..and reaped in the Fall! This also included Animal stock raised for meat during the winter. After the fall Harvest, hopefully bountiful (a Huge job)...Families gathered together, to have a big feast..and to give THANKS for their harvest. As simple as I can make the explanation, ronaldinu..but today, it is mostly a gathering of family, with a lot of traditional foods, like turkey..and apple/or pumpkin pies...and all the trimmings!
Hope this simple description shines a small light...and my reason for the discussion is my admiration for the US ladies, who prepare this huge celebration, just one month before the same huge celebration of Christmas. Cheers!
