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Post by Techguy on Oct 5, 2006 18:22:32 GMT -5
Happy Birthday to all members who celebrate in October! And thanks to Admin for the great new look to the site. At least some change is GOOD.
Duet, I don't think anyone minds the bump of the first Stephanie SenGupta interview. I thank you for doing it to make it easier for everyone to find and reference.
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Post by madger on Oct 8, 2006 19:30:51 GMT -5
I just wanted to stop by and wish all the October babies a very happy birthmonth and to all my fellow posters a wonderful and hopeful Fall. I love this time of year, the colors, the smells, the nip in the air and soon the tofurkey feast (I'm vegetarian).
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Post by NikkiGreen on Oct 8, 2006 20:01:41 GMT -5
Sirenna, Duet and others North of the 49thparallel: Happy Thanksgiving.
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Post by Techguy on Oct 8, 2006 22:49:05 GMT -5
And Happy Thanksgiving to you too NikkiGreen! And to Sirenna, Duet and all our Canadian members.
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Post by spaniard on Oct 9, 2006 10:32:39 GMT -5
Can someone tell me what's the story behind this canadian Thanksgiving? it´s the first time I hear about it.
I'm vegetarian too and family gatherings are a pain. They tell me "it´s not meat, it´s chicken" and I always remember that movie My big fat greek weeding where a woman tells the groom that if he doesn´t eat meat she will cook lamb. I have that feeling every time I see my family.
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Post by NikkiGreen on Oct 9, 2006 12:02:04 GMT -5
Thank you, Techguy. No family gathering or feast this year, though. My dad's been in the hospital since Friday and will be there a few more days. Spaniard, Thanksgiving in Canada has been around since 1578.
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Post by SarahIvy on Oct 9, 2006 12:48:58 GMT -5
Happy October, Happy Birthday Octboer babies, and Happy Thanksgiving Canadians Nikki, I'm sorry to hear about your father, I hope he's alright (and my apologies if you said something about this elsewhere and I'm clueless). Oh, to be a vegetarian during the Holidays I recall the Thanksgiving we went to the husband's grandmother's house, explaining to her that she should cook whatever she wanted for everyone else and we would bring something for ourselves so as to not be a bother. She INSISTED we not do that, and that she would make a fabulous meal we could eat. We arrived and she said, "Oh, well you said you don't eat meat, so instead of a turkey I did a ham!" Oh, there was also a salad....literally encrusted with bacon bits and grease. Family...
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Post by sarahlee on Oct 9, 2006 16:30:46 GMT -5
We arrived and she said, "Oh, well you said you don't eat meat, so instead of a turkey I did a ham!" Oh, there was also a salad....literally encrusted with bacon bits and grease. Family... LOL, Bless her heart, she tried! Nikki, I hope that it all goes well for your father. It's tough to see our parents like that, isn't it? Blessings on your head, dear.
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Post by mwendyr on Oct 9, 2006 16:31:14 GMT -5
Happy Birthday to all October folks! Mines practically two months away and I'm trying not to wish that time away. LOL. Hope you all have good ones. Thanks for bumping the interview. I have been looking for that thing everywhere. Wendy Hugs
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Post by BegToDiffer on Oct 11, 2006 8:34:37 GMT -5
Happy Birthday-October babies. It is a nice time of the year. The colors always perk me up.
And how about Halloween? Any good stories or ways to celebrate? Around here, people even decorate the houses. Not as much as Christmas time, but some neighbors go all out with the scary music and stuff. One house has a coffin in front and the guy hands out candy from it.
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Post by trisha on Oct 11, 2006 8:46:45 GMT -5
I love Halloween. It's my favorite holiday, and I go all out with the decorating and scary music. My sister does it, too, and she's even gotten some of her neighbors into it with "booing," ever heard of it? It's a game where you leave a treat bag on the porch of a neighbor who has decorated for Halloween. They are supposed to put a sign on their door that they've been booed, and they go to another house that's decorated and boo them. It's gotten a lot of her neighbors into it, and they even seem a little competitive. All the decorations make the night more fun for the kids, too. And that's the best part of Halloween; it's all about the kids.
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Post by Metella on Oct 11, 2006 12:26:11 GMT -5
I also like Halloween. I have mini pumpkins hanging from each side of my mail box; mum plants in the front and orange porch lights. Not too much - but enough to show some spirit. When I get more $$ (someday) I'll do some more stuff.
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Post by Techguy on Oct 11, 2006 21:08:14 GMT -5
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Post by sarahlee on Oct 11, 2006 21:15:58 GMT -5
Janet--I have "mums" blooming in big long pots in front of my apartment, like metella. We americans have the irish to credit for the way we celebrate Halloween, thanks!
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Post by SarahIvy on Oct 11, 2006 21:46:28 GMT -5
Oh, I absolutely adore Halloween, always have, but it has special meaning in my adulthood because the mister and I met each other right around Halloween and even though we got hitched at a different time of year we've always regarded Halloween as our real anniversary. I was dressed as a 40's style swing dancer and he was Nikola Tesla, complete with lab coat and hand buzzer. He was going around trying to woo people into buying into patents for his inventions. It's been 8 years, ahhh romance I always like to do some decorating, even though we're at the very end of a dead end gravel road where no children live. It's just for our own amusement. And we always visit a huge local pumpkin patch and pick out pumpkins to carve, go on a haybale ride, and drink hot cider. This and Christmas are simply my favorite times of year.
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