Happy Thanksgiving To My American Friends.............

I have always dreamed of having a typical "American Thanksgiving"! I would love to be in the kitchen with all the other ladies preparing all the trimmings for a wonderful meal. Whether it's baking apple pies or apple crisp and of course not forgetting Pumpkin Pie. That is my all time favourite pie.There is such a variation on cooking a Turkey...My grandmother with meticulous care make the best stuffing, pack it in the cavity, roast slowly throughout the entire day. Now People deep fry turkey, brine it (whatever that means) Or better yet they stuff a turkey with a duck the duck with a cornish hen and call it some weird name Like Turkey duckin something or another...... lol Never had that either. I mean in America they even have wine in boxes. How neat is that just set it down everyone help themselves!!  Our Thanksgiving in Canada is a little more subdued well a lot subdued......Based on the Autumn Harvest after the last of  everything is picked and put away, we then celebrate Thanksgiving the second Monday of each October.

The men all gathered around the TV  jumping up and down for a football team. When I was younger I remember watching the Macey's Parade and a few others that were also being shown. When the parades had finished there was always Classic Cartoons or stories, Like Paul Bunyan, Big Red . Or classic old movies on PBS they were annoying with their fund raising.....The first time I ever saw the movie Hans Christian Anderson with Danny Kaye. There was one my grandmother loved the Al Jolson Story Pt 1 & 2. You watch the commercials with all families sitting together at a huge table trimmed to the nines. How beautiful..That's what I'd like to do!

All the fine china neatly placed,  silverware  carefully polished, not a streak on the crystal goblets. Kids running around impatiently waiting for dinner and wouldn't you know it!!  Just when dinner is about to served, a huge yelp and whoo haa comes from the living rooms guys patting each other on the backs, there was a touchdown. Dinner has to wait a few more minutes. So mom turns the potatoes to simmer grandma stirs the gravy Nothing is better than to have your family surround you  and of course the friends you share a meal with too.

However  there are those who don't have families to share a meal with, don't have the long time earned friendships any longer.  There are so many who have lost their jobs to no fault of their own the circumstances of the economy can be brutal. They have to rely on a good meal through various sources. Remember them  donate a few cans of whatever you have so they too can have a good meal with their families.

For a lot of families the holidays are the start of  the dreaded firsts..Whether it was a husband wife, grandmother parent that is no longer with us. There is a void along with there being an empty space where the would sit. In my family anyway the first year we lost a loved one, we would set their regular place,  put a small photo of them on the plate so they and us will have a lovely reminder that because a loved one is no longer here, does not  mean we  forget them
Make a special tribute to their memory, a favorite flower, a photo, they may not be here in the physical body, but they are here as  a spiritual being......

Before I end this let me wish you all who will be Celebrating American Thanksgiving...
Have a "Wonderful safe holiday" Enjoy all the bounty placed in front of you. Don't over shop I just recently learned what "Black Friday " was about.....

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone......BTW Miss Della I'm coming to Kentucky next year.....hahaha...........