Today was a wonderfully lazy day. A very #sublimesunday if ever there was one. The day started incredibly lazily, close to 8:30, and consisted of feeding the animals (the four legged ones, not the offspring), showering, and enjoying the rest of the morning with hot coffee. I did get out to mow the lawn one last time for the season, but that was the last of the daily chores. A hair cut for me and the eldest was next (which included a scalp and shoulder massage... ooooohh... I wonder if they ever have people offer to marry them right then and there) and then my youngest and I tried our hand at a stop motion video. That'll be another post.
Tomorrow is a pair of holidays in North America: Columbus Day in the US, and Thanksgiving Day in Canada. Being a dual-national I get to celebrate both, though I really don't have any need for Columbus Day at all. I don't have tomorrow off, so today it was: Thanksgiving.
I've had more than a few people, all American, ask me why Canadians celebrate a Thanksgiving so early in the season (American Thanksgiving is in November); I've also been asked what Canadians are thankful for. So, should anyone else be curious, and in no particular order, here are some answers, in a typically Canadian fashion:
- Canadian Thanksgiving is in October because that is the end of the harvest and growing season. From this point forward, it gets cold.
- Canadians are thankful for a large number of things:
** We're not American (hah). Sorry.
** We're thankful that we're awesome enough to need to apologise for it. A lot. And we do. Sorry about that.
** The vast majority of us are thankful to not live in Edmonton. (hah!) Decidely not sorry for that.
** We're thankful that it's not always winter.
** We're thankful that we've figured out what to do in winter; ice hockey!
** We're thankful we've never found a need to celebrate Columbus.
And now, what you all really want to see anyway: food porn.
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