Would like to acknowledge that the American Thanksgiving Day is coming up next week--on Thursday--and I'd like to wish my American friends and family a happy holiday! In Canada, we had our Thanksgiving earlier, in the month of October.... I sometimes like to celebrate both the Canadian and American days, actually, because I find the Canadian day too early and I'm not quite prepared.... And I appreciate the holiday, otherwise, and don't mind extending my time...!
"Thanks giving" for the fall harvest was part of the original celebration, I believe, if not the entire purpose...? This year, I had a nice garden for the first time in a long while; and I was a little sad when the gardening season was ending.... But I realized there's a lot of fruits and vegetables which come from the fall harvest time, [in the stores and at the farms], and I decided to make a special use of them this year.... Have been baking and cooking, and enjoying the food!
In this area, the fruits we have are apples, pears, plums, nectarines, peaches, and grapes in the fall--but especially apples! I live near an apple-growing area; and the others aren't too far away.... Then we have cabbages, squashes, turnips, and pumpkins, etc. And pumpkin pie is a common tradition for Thanksgiving!
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