Happy Thanksgiving!

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore: this just occurred to me - I couldn't have made a turkey if I wanted. There aren't any!

It's a good thing I never even considered turkey. Although it would have been yet another amusing frustration to add to the Thanksgiving prep saga. Christa hunts a turkey on an island bigger than the whole of Europe...

Butternut squash is a delightful substitute for pumpkin. I blame the oven (and if you knew my oven you wouldn't dare argue) for the fact that it wasn't quite cooked properly, but it was still delicious. Vikki, Antonia, Triona and Heidi are now convinced that pumpkin pie is a good idea (well, Heidi had actually made one before but never got to try it).

Trying to explain Thanksgiving is an experience all it's own. Obviously, the modern reason is for having it is "it's a time to be thankful". But then people ask where it originated. "Uh, well, see, I think some pilgrams ate turkey with the Native Americans and then killed them all by passing on diseases for which they had no immunity and then they built cities on their land..." Or not.