Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving! This is a quick note to wish you all a Happy Thanksgiving. The Soapbox family celebrated as it always does with dear friends, our daughters and their partners,…
Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. After a few missteps–the fresh cranberries turned into cranberry soup and the cook burned his hand when he was basting the turkey–everything came together. The meal was…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!
Ms Soapbox and her family would like to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving. To say that it’s been different this year would be an understatement, but we can all be…
Some Thoughts on Thanksgiving
Usually the thought of Thanksgiving invokes images of family and friends sitting around the dining room table enjoying good food, sparkling conversation and laughter…as well as reminiscing over past thanksgiving…
HAPPY THANKSGIVING
It’s been an intense week (aren’t they all). Today let’s pause and reflect. We have much to be thankful for. Happy Thanksgiving everyone. A turkey to serve cranberry sauce. Perfect.
The 2nd Monday of October
Meanwhile in Canada … Every year on the second Monday of October, Canadians celebrate the end of the Moose Ascendancy. During this dark period of… The post The 2nd Monday…
Important News From Turkey!
I just googled it and turkeys don't actually come from Turkey. So no matter what happens, the 1st World should be OK for thanksgiving.— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 15, 2016
Important News From Turkey!
I just googled it and turkeys don't actually come from Turkey. So no matter what happens, the 1st World should be OK for thanksgiving.— Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 15, 2016
Important News From Turkey!
I just googled it and turkeys don’t actually come from Turkey. So no matter what happens, the 1st World should be OK for thanksgiving. — Bigcitylib (@Bigcitylib2) July 15, 2016
Happy Yanksgiving!
Alltop prefers roast opossum. Original photo by Doug Brown via Flickr.
Holidays and holy days – and the dross and drivel which confuses and clouds over them
Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter…Yom Kippur, Hunakkah, Passover… Ramadan: these symbolic expressions of union, communion, gratitude, faith and love – what do they matter? Except that they do. As a naturally reclusive…
David Suzuki: The ecological and economic costs of food waste
This Thanksgiving season, David Suzuki wants us to remember this fact: ” In Canada, food waste cost estimates increased from $27 billion to $31 billion between 2010 and 2014.” The…
Happy Thanksgiving! Would the Tories praising our health care system please stop trying to privatize it!
Edmonton’s Misericordia Hospital waaay back in the day. Below: The modern Mis, the one in Edmonton’s west end that after 45 years is falling apart. Alberta Health Minister Stephen Mandel.…
Turkey Day at the Soapbox House
“There’s no such thing as too much turkey”.— Mr Soapbox Mr Soapbox is a peculiar man. He’s a wonderful cook who rises to any occasion but when it come to…
The Lost Power Point Slides (Yanksgiving History Edition)
Chief Massasoit presents items NOT supplied for the first Thanksgiving, circa 1621 (only slide) deep-fried turkey cranberry sauce potatoes, white or sweet pie of any kind (there were pumpkins, though).…
Thanksgiving in Harperland:The Sorrow and the Hope
It still takes my breath away. This country so big and so beautiful. And on this Thanksgiving Day, even in Harperland, I have so many reasons to be thankful.A roof…
Religious Rituals: Killing of chickens and turkeys
An ultra-Orthodox man performs a Jewish ritual called Kaparot in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Sept. 10. In the ancient custom of Kaparot, still performed by some Jews…
A Thanksgiving Gift from Baseball
Pat Neshek of the Oakland Athletics looks to the sky as he touches the patch with the letters “GJN” on it after he recorded the final out of the bottom…