Canuckgiving...

I love this time of year, the fall the smell of rotting pumpkins on porches, who doesn't love the smell of fermented fruit?! Wet dead leaves on the ground, testing your centre of gravity as you slip and slide across them, preparing you for winter. Come on this is a great time of year!!

Not only that, you have Canadian Thanksgiving! Living in the U.S. I get to have two thanksgivings!!! The only down fall to that of course by the time Christmas comes you have reached your turkey quota, and your waist line can't take it much more.

You are probably asking yourself why does Canada have Thanksgiving earlier than the Americans? Well it has nothing to do with the Mayflower, or Pilgrams, but more about the harvest, which happens earlier in Canada, and being grateful for a great year. I have always sort of views Thanksgiving as a sort of New Year, a time of reflection.
No we don't serve anything really different at our Thanksgiving dinners compared to our American counterparts, well at least not in my families tradition. Well there was one of two things I have noticed are on my families' table and not my American Families' table. Paul had never had a turnip before, until my thanksgiving dinner last year in Chicago. We invited a few friends from our work and none of them ever had turnip served in a dinner like that before. Something so simple who would have thought. For American Thanksgiving, we went to a friend's place and they served sweet potatoes with melted marshmellows on top, interesting choice, not one I had ever heard of before.

Also in Canada we don't have the infamous "Black Fridays", that they have in America, where the stores open at the ass crack of dawn, with people lined up for hours, waiting to start their official Christmas Shopping. Thanksgiving is usually on the second Monday in October, most families tend to celebrate the Sunday, and let the turkey coma wear off on Monday.

And that my friends, is what Canuckgiving means to me.