Happy Thanksgiving Canadians! I found a groovy site about what these folk do on their holiday, and found some very interesting recipies. Like moose steak - who knew people ate moose? There is a recipe here for a partridge. Not Keith mind you, but the kind in the pear tree. The Blueberry Upside Down Pudding sounds right up my alley - and dig that Candian Coffee! It has more liquor in it than caffeine!

I remember in my French class in high school, our teacher brought in a dead, roasted rabbit that had been soaked in maple syrup. I seem to remember that only the boys partook of this particular dish. I didn't see the recipe for this on the groovy site. I hope the recipe only exists in Mme Detterbeck's mind, because the thought of people sitting down to a dish of maple bunny rabbit makes me sad. Kind of like how I feel about fillet of Bullwinkle, but not really, because Bullwinkle is a fictional character. Bunnies are just so damned cute and fluffy.

But I digress.... today, in honoUr of all those Canadians, I'd like to make a little list of 10 things I am thankful for at this very moment:

1. All of the blankets I have on my bed right now - the landlord doesn't deem a 28 degree night as a just cause for turning on the heat and I would be a Michellecicle with out the blankets.

2. I don't know anyone scheduled to be on Bali this week.

3. My Canadian buddies - real and implied

4. My nephew Ben's exclusion of me in his new "Girls Are Gross" manifesto.

5. Columbus - in whose name we celebrate a bank holiday this Monday.

6. The Wall of Sound

7 My grandmother's occupational therapist, without whom, I'd be spending the next several months in the swamplands.

8. Fiddlehead Ferns not catching on as a vegetable in the US

9. The relatively low cost of filtered drinking water

10. Liberals, everywhere.