Happy Thanksgiving day also to all Canadian Garden Web members and happy Columbus Day to our American friends. We will be having Thanksgiving on Monday at my daughters. My son-in-law, the chef, likes to put on dinner parties, so it will be quite a feed. I am spending the rest of the weekend cleaning up my garden and getting ready for winter. The forcast says we are supposed to get sn** next weekend. I hope not. Cheers Al

Rosefolly, you said that so beautifully, thank you. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone here, may every joy visit your heart on this and every other day. Most of all I wish everyone much love and contentment for all the good things your life may hold.

I hope everyone had a lovely day yesterday. I love my traditional turkey dinner. Old-fashioned bread stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy, fresh cranberry-orange sauce, pumpkin and pecan pies. i know some folks like to try new recipes, but for me, once a year, i like the old ones. I must confess that I did almost succumb to Ina Garten’s chocolate bourbon pecan pie recipe though. I will have to try that sometime. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone.

Nancy, we always used the ham bone too, whether it was in soup, in green beans or with cabbage. I've never made ham stock, but my brother is always bemoaning the fact that you can't buy ham stock or ham bouillion cubes here, he loves ham gravy, so it would make him very happy if I did. Grandma would never get rid of that ham bone, it was "perfectly good flavor". You're right about the ration of meat to bone, though, that's 1/3 bone in your ham. I am having both turkey and ham, mine is a ham roast from the pig I bought last spring. It'll have a big bone too, but hopefully not 5 pounds! Annie