Happy Thanksgiving

[HazAnga]

Happy late thanksgiving... you American's are a little late on your celebration... as here in canada it was back in October lol Ohh well everyone is slow at something lol
I'm thankful for how my life is getting on track and hopefully everything goes well

[ConcinusMan]

Waaaaayy late. You are correct. This is basically a celebration of harvest shared between the natives and the newly arrived Europeans in America. I'm sure the "first" one which occurred on the east coast, really happened much earlier, say, in Oct.

We just think it's more convenient to have the actual holiday close to Christmas I guess. Besides that, the growing season and harvest in some parts of the U.S. isn't over until sometime in November. By the time the last thursday in Nov. comes, the growing season is over for sure.

[HazAnga]

true... but i still like having that month in between... so my turkey can digest before the next big *** meal lol.

[ConcinusMan]

End of Oct is more appropriate really if you ask me. It's hunting season, and most crops are done, and harvested by then.

[zooplan]

Beginning of October is the right time like our celebration.

No, with a closer view on it, we´ll see that those are to different celebration, similar but still with different meanings.

[Stefan-A]

End of Oct is more appropriate really if you ask me. It's hunting season, and most crops are done, and harvested by then.

Here, most crops seem to be harvested by early September and the hunting season starts on August 1 and ends on July 31.

[zooplan]

Okay Stefan,
there is no important agriculture in the far North but hunting season all year. Maybe there is another date to celebrate life cycles, isn´t it?
What´s about Midsummer?

[Stefan-A]

Okay Stefan,
there is no important agriculture in the far North but hunting season all year. Maybe there is another date to celebrate life cycles, isn´t it?
What´s about Midsummer?

Oh, there is agriculture. It's just that the growing season is just 121-181 days, depending on where in the country you are. I think it's something like 250-280 days where you are.

Midsummer is already taken. Officially by John the Baptist.

[gregmonsta]

Midsummer is already taken. Officially by John the Baptist.

the 'pagan' traditions got a first on that one.

[ConcinusMan]

Yeah, our only holiday that actually comes right at the end of the growing season is Halloween. Thanksgiving doesn't come until a month later, and really what it is, is a celebration of plenty - basically a celebration of the harvest but also to celebrate the surviving the winter, with the help and kindness of the natives, of the "first" Europeans to settle here - the crew and passengers of the Mayflower. So, our Thanksgiving has multiple significance. For many the settlers, it was their first time eating turkey and their first experience with popcorn.