Not wanting to disparage your Thanksgiving Celebrations in any way (I've shared in more than one great ThanksGiving celebration over the years & have a LOT to be Thankful about!
) but in the interests of sharing, we don't do 'Thanksgiving' as a special event here in Australia
I guess that might be because for some of our early 'settlers' - more often called 'convicts' (altho not here in South Aus, where I come from - some of my lot were here already, the rest came as sea-farers & free settlers about the same time as the First Fleet hit the Eastern Shores) The convicts probably didn't have too much to Give Thanks for, except maybe for still being alive rather than rotting in an (equally rotten) prison hulk in the Thames.... And these days, pretty much
every day you get up & don't expire in the heat; hafta go fight a fire; rescue someone who drove their car into a flooded river; or try to stop someone from bleeding out in the surf cos a shark took their foot off is already a
GREAT DAY & well worth Giving Thanks for - so we do, often, and usually as a part of everyday life! :clap: It's sometimes tough living in this Great Land Down Under, (where Women glow & Men chunder... apologies to Midnight Oil.
) but seriously, someone's gotta do it!
hyea:
Still, amongst other 'Celebration Days', some of us do celebrate 'Harvest Festivals' in our Autumn (March - May), with similar gatherings & extravagant meals; OctoberFest (in October
) with lotsa beer, sausage, shooting, & sauerkraut; or just have a TGIF (or Saturday, Sunday, or pretty much any other day too) celebration down the Pub on Friday Arvo, with more beer, a meat tray or chook raffle to raise funds for the Flying Doctor etc; and we'll maybe even have a game of darts or snooker; then a Mixed Grill or a Parma, a Schnittie, or a humble (but delicious) Plate of Chips & sauce... :2thumbs:
And those of us in the know get our Knees in the Breeze at every opportunity & just Give Thanks that we are
still Ryding! :riding:
hyea: :yes: :cheers:
Thanks for all who have joined. 
