Listen, I'll be at my parents' place on Monday, and therefore will not be in a position to either taunt or warn the Merkins about the new Buffy. I expect that you ladies will take up the gauntlet in my stead.

My parents will still be here so I won't be about for the taunting. I'll be lucky if I remember to tape the episodes. My parents were here last year as well, and I remembered at 8:30 that Buffy was on. Thank the goddess for YTV.

In other news, my pregnant friend's water broke at 3:00am! There may be a baby to visit tomorrow. My mom would LOVE that.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Megan, how exciting about your friend. I hope she had an easy labour.

So Sue is away for the weekend, right? Since you're both busy, too, I guess that leaves Nora and me for the CVR. Can do - I'll make a note so we won't forget.

I'll have to flee this thread tonight, as your prescient selves discuss the new Buffy, but Happy Thanksgiving!

And I should know this, being 1/4 Canadian myself, but what does CanThanksDay celebrate exactly? Is it meant to be around Columbus Day?

And I should know this, being 1/4 Canadian myself, but what does CanThanksDay celebrate exactly? Is it meant to be around Columbus Day?

Nuh-uh. It's a harvest festival - they have one in the U.K. too. In fact, there's probably one any place where there's a harvest season. It is celebrated with similar foods as in the U.S., but there's no settler/pilgrim stuff involved. It used to be later in the year, near where the American one is, but harvest is earlier in Canada, so it got moved.

(Hee! I was checking the date thing, and Google.ca is all cute with a maple leaf and a pumpkin, apple and a cob of corn. Aww.)

C'dan Thanksgiving is cleverly placed to coincide with actual pumpkins being in supermarkets. t /bitter about shopping for pie ingredients for T'giving in MI

Huh! I never thought of that. That would be very annoying. No pumpkin pie for me this year, though. Accursed dairy-free diet. Hey, I wonder if you can make pumpkin pie with rice milk or soy milk. I'll have to look that up. Maybe there is hope of pie, after all.

Megan, how exciting about your friend. I hope she had an easy labour.

Actually she started labour on Sunday morning at 3:00am, and had the baby today at 12:30pm. Yikes! They didn't go to the hospital until 2am today so I guess her water broke and then nothing happened.

Anyway, they had a boy (and I named him!) 9lbs, 8oz! Big baby. We're going to see him tonight after we have the turkey. Gobble gobble.

Wow, that's a huge baby! Congratulations to her. And you got to name him? SO cool. The 34 hours thing less so. Ulp!

Enjoy your Thanksgiving dinner and the baby visit!

I was a bigger baby than that!

And no turkey for me! But I did have pumpkin pie!

A flark is like quicksand, but in a peat bog. There's a short trail in Fundy that goes right through a bog, and one year I almost fell in the flark. Not this year though. I had a lot of fun. Lots of hiking, giggling, and eating.