First, wishing a Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA. Here's hoping that none of you are being forced to work today, particularly in retail. It's bad enough that there are these insane "Black Friday" sales, even worse that now some retailers are actually opening today and spoiling what one could argue is the biggest holiday in ( Read more... )

     Wishing a belated Happy Thanksgiving to all my friends in the USA.  Hope you all had a good time with friends and family, and didn't get mauled in the malls on Black Friday.  Really, what an insane concept, and the worst of it is that the merchants in Canada are starting to copy their American counterparts and having Black Friday sales as well ( Read more... )

     Monday wasn't too good, as noted, but things got better during the week.

Wednesday night was the Elks meeting, and I was cooking once again.  In honour of the Canadian Thanksgiving holiday this weekend, I prepared a meal of Roast Turkey with stuffing, mashed potatoes, vegetables, gravy, home-made cranberry sauce, and Pumpkin-Pie with ( Read more... )

     Wishing all you folks in the USA a very Happy Thanksgiving!  (or given the lateness of the hour, here's hoping you all had a very Happy Thanksgiving!)

In many ways, it seems that in the USA, Thanksgiving is an even bigger holiday than Christmas, or at the very least it's about on-par with it.  Do people actually go to those insane Black ( Read more... )

Here's wishing all you folks in the USA a Happy Thanksgiving! :)

Or more correctly, at this hour here's hoping you all had a Happy Thanksgiving! :)