Thank you so much! DD is coming today with the kids, to stay overnight (I just can't wait to see them). Tomorrow my DM is coming and we're all going to DD's DMom-in-law's for dinner. The weather is supposed to be gorgeous, so we're all looking forward to it.

Laurel

Thanks for the good wishes!
Tomorrow we're celebrating Thanksgiving as well. Really gorgeous weather too! (70 F).

Dex, how come you're having Thanskgiving tomorrow? Aren't you in the States?

It's not until Monday, but Happy Thanksgiving! We'll be going to Joe's parents for turkey dinner tomorrow, Monday will be a day to relax.

Yes Happy Thanksgiving to all The Canadians, We're having our dinner on Monday, so far no snow here in Alberta, we're really enjoying all the beautiful Fall colors. Everyone have a safe and happy holiday.

We are Canadians who live part time in Florida. We're going down there soon for the winter. Our old bones don't like the cold up here. We went for a couple of weeks a while ago (hurricane time, of course), but mostly we spend the summers here and winters in Florida, so we are blessed with two Thanksgivings. Have a good one, everyone!

Thank you...we are celebrating ours tomorrow and resting on the actual day Monday.
Hope everyone has a safe and wonderful holiday
Taigen

Have a great day and enjoy the cool weather, and the great friends and relatives.Happy Thanksgiving
marie

Thank you for the wishes!

We're having our dinner tomorrow and relaxing Monday as well....actually,"hot" weather here in central Ont.

Hope you all get plenty to eat--and a nice nap afterward. Gotta love Thanksgiving--no gifts to buy and nothing to do but eat delicious food!

From the West Coast of Canada:

Another thank you for the wishes!

We will be having our dinner tomorrow, so Monday will be a nice restful day. I have the family at our house to give my Mom a break.

Here in Northwestern Ontario it has been a very mild dull day. Definately no nip in the air like the beginning of the week!

Thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes. I have a lot to be thankful for ... a great family made up of my husband, 2 sons & their partners & 2 beautiful grandchildren. Oh, and I can't forget our dog and the 3 dogs in beautiful BC (our grand-dogs).
I am spending this weekend alone, hiding out as it were. My husband & his brother & his brother's son & son-in-law have gone to our former neighbour's cottage which is located about half way between Sudbury and Sault St Marie. This has become a family tradition over the past 20+ years, one that doesn't bother me a bit. The winters are long & the snow gets deep so they may as well go and enjoy themselves while the weather is fine. So, I've spent my day cleaning & baking and I'm about to relax for the evening now. I'll have my fill of turkey & cranberries & dressing and all those wonderfuls tastes at Christmas unless the neighbours invite me over for their dinner tomorrow.
Hope everyone else is enjoying the long weekend; the sight of the leaves in green, gold, orange & red; the smell of autumn and the brisk temperatures early in the morning!

Linda
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Happy Thanksgiving to all our Canadian friends. Enjoy your day.

Thank you very much for your good wishes, everyone.

We, who live on this great North American English-speaking island (north of the Alamo, that is), who've not known international warfare for over 180 years, or within one major country for 140 years, have no idea of the ongoing fear of imminent catastrophe that millions know in many parts of the world, more or less daily.

I said this a few years ago ... then remembered that the most recent military action was just over 120 years ago, against a local insurrection in this area of North America ... was in Canada, where a fellow called Louis Riel developed an uprising against perceived injustice meted out by an eastern establishment against developing Western Canada. He was elected to Parliament, the Eastern establishment sent a military action against him and his supporters (via U.S. rail system I think) and there was a battle at Batoche, in central Saskatchewan that went on for a couple of days in 1885, with a small number killed (I have no idea how many), mainly on the side of the rebels.

Louis Riel ran to the U.S. for safety for a while, eventually returned to Canada ... was jailed and, later ... hanged!

In recent years, he's been rehabilitated and considered to have led a reasonably legitimate reactive force against central government's rather heedless injustice.

And ... the whole civil war issue was/is so minor that when I first thought of this military warfare issue in North America (north of the Alamo) ...

... I forgot about it!

So much for Civil War in Canada (where we developed our independence in stages, by evolution, rather than revolution).

Peacefully.

Currently ... in a major portion of our country, where the official langage is ... a local variation of French, a substantial number of people say that they want to be idependent (and that the rest of us aren't to have much of a say in the issue) ... and they had a referendum (with a rather convoluted question) in their area a few years ago ... with close to half of the people voting in favour. But, it hasn't happened ... yet.

So much for which to be thankful!

And, we residents of the earth need to learn to live together in peace, using our scarce resources to work together to build, rather than smash ... and be seriously concerned to preserve our environment ... or we'll destroy ourselves.

We have a number of endangered species - mankind is getting to be one of them!

And, personally, as I approach age 80, enjoying good health, not having taken a pill in 30 years or so, living within my pension income, not currently needing the assets that have shrunk in current value recently, I'm living comfortably in what used to be Uncle's farmhouse, where I figure that I can stay as long as I can drive, I'm taking the produce of my garden to share with church folks and, on occasion, Food Bank and mission agencies helping the disadvantaged, locally.

I can vote for the leaders of my country on Tuesday (in what many of us consider an unnecessary election - but, there it is) and things are going so well here that many don't even bother. So many take democracy for granted!

How many more years? months? days? will be left to me to enjoy my good fortune, personally?

I have no idea - who does, at this age?

But, for the present, I am an independent, healthy, prosperous ... happy person.

Our countries have some very serious issues with which to deal, and soon ... or later wish that they had ... but that's mainly for others to deal with. I'll do and say what I can to seek to deal with the illness ... but I long ago realized that God's the General ( a designation that I'm not too sure that S/He'd assent to)... I'm just a foot soldier, evaluating my society and the world as I feel called upon to do.

Have a blessed, happy Thaksgiving, all of you Canadians!

ole joyful

Happy Thanksgiving from B.C.

Its a very rainy cold day here.

My dog has gone in today to the vets to get a lump removed on his gums and will bring him home tomorrow.

I miss him tons already.

My thanksgiving dinner will be a turkey tv dinner. Its only me.

Hi Canadians! Have a great Thanksgiving!

Do you all do the turkey, pumpkin pie thing like we do for our Thanksgiving? If not, I'd love to hear what is traditional there.

Most of us do the same turkey dinner, with fixings that you Americans do. Even though the Monday is the holiday, a lot of us celebrate it on Sunday, for some reason.