I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Welcome, plainwhite!

I don't know about y'all, but I went and bought two years' worth of CREs (Cookies Ready to Eat) from Baker of Fortune magazine.  I recommend you do the same.

I love the cookie monster - I remember coming home from school just to see him on Sesame Street. A special shoutout to peanut butter and white chocolate macademia cookies - both are my favorites.

I think our Thanksgiving is sooner because of our climate. Our harvest is at its prime and the fall leaves are turning colour now.  You Americans have more sections of the county with warmer climate making the harvest come later. I don't know if that's true, but it's my theory.  Really, it is much more convenient to have Thanksgiving and Christmas farther apart so that there don't have to be two big deal celebrations so close to each other. I think we make less of deal about Thanksgiving here too. Maybe others see things differently.

We certainly are having most unusually warm and sunny weather - a glorious one for those who are observing the tradition of closing down their cottages this weekend.

Yummmm...lost-creek -see you there. :-)

Lassie, that's an interesting theory. IMO, sadly, Thanksgiving here is becoming more well known for the after Thanksgiving day Christmas sales, - at least this is my general observation based on what is reported in the media. That is all they talk about - Thanksgiving is a placeholder. Apparently some people have curtailed or changed their Thanksgiving celebrations just so that they can sleep outside of Wal Mart before the store opens and be there to grab items before the store runs out. It's no longer a quiet time for some people. The rest of us see Christmas paraphernalia exploding after Thanksgiving. So it really feels as though Thanksgiving has become merely a launchpad for Christmas, and you have to factor in the busy streets and shopping traffic the next day. If anybody has wondered what there is to give thanks for --and I know people do-- they can be forgiven for thinking it must be about "Black Friday" sales! 

Love the Sesame Street pix!  Enjoyful, have you also stocked up on guns and ammo to defend your cookie stockpile?

I'm going to be contrarian and say that I like the late November timing of American Thanksgiving, even though it's a bit late to be a celebration of the fall harvest.  Reason #1: if we celebrated at the same time as Canada, the holiday would interfere with the fall marathon season.  Can't have that! (I've been checking in online on friends who ran Chicago this morning . . . one of my running buddies (male) managed a 2:45 on a warm day; another (female) doesn't have a final time posted yet, but she was 3:05 at 40k, which is pretty freaking awesome.)   

Reason #2: blending into the whole excessive Christmas extravaganza isn't all bad.  For me, once we hit Thanksgiving, the rest of the year is like coasting downhill.  I like that!

Linda

Oh dear, I understand that Sesame Street is getting hammered for actually planning to introduce a puppet who lives in poverty.  Apparently, that's a bit too much reality for some folks....congrats to Grover and Elmo for participating in democracy.

Me want CHOCOLATE cookie!

You guys are so funny!

e, don't tell my dh that there is such a thing as "cookies ready-to-eat," or he'll be all over them.  We already have some real MRE's in the pantry for those evenings when we're D.A.T. and neither of us wants to turn on a stove burner.

Speaking of cooking:  anybody have a good recipe for buttermilk pie?  We had some at a pub in Oklahoma last month, and it was really yummy.  I'd never tasted it before.  It was rich, creamy, sugary... all at once.  Somebody told me it was simple to make, so I bought buttermilk, eggs, and Pillsbury ready-made pie crusts at the store a few days ago.

I am looking out the window and the only leaves I see that have turned so far are on the sassafras tree.  (Yes, there really is such a thing.)

otter

Yum, Linda!

Oh I haven't had a buttermild pie in years. They are so yummy. I even have a pie shell in the freezer. My DH would love it tonight. He is still so sore from the surgery, and to think the Dr. felt no pain meds were needed.Thank goodness I had some pain meds left from my BS. The surgery site is 4 inches long. At least they got all the cancer! Yeah!!

Looking forward to the kitty pic Anne!!!

I get choc chip cookies at my supermarket - made in their bakery - very yummy, better than in a packet.

Got that job interview @work today - wish me luck - I had to google what an application architect is supposed to do - the ones at work don't seem to do much of anything except draw diagrams of computer systems.

Sue

Blue - hugs to grandson - it just shows you just how close you have to watch them. Glad he was spotted so quickly. Have a big rest.

Thanks girls - It's not until 4pm so I've got ages to wait. It's not important that I get it - like I still have a job - but it could be interesting.

Sue