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A holiday approacheth.

11/21/2016

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In the USA, tomorrow is Thanksgiving, which means many of this blog’s readers won’t be stopping by this week to see if I embarrass myself. They’ll be too focused on some combination of food, family, football and Friday (Black) to spend their leisure time at this little website.
 
I don’t blame ‘em. I won’t be spending my time at this website, either.
 
If you’re thinking, “Those silly Yanks, refusin’ to work so they can devour their cuppa cranberry sauce!”, well, that’s a rather colorful thought you’ve just had. Also, you sound kind of sitcom-British, which is great, because I have such a weakness for UK accents. But also also, you should know that the USA is not alone in celebrating a harvest-related festival according to the edjimikated folks at Mental Floss. While those other countries may not celebrate the holiday in the same way, or even during the same month, a similar-ish celebration does occur at these places, according to the M.F. giant brains. (Oh, don’t pretend. You knew “M.F.” stood for Mental Floss.) Those that don’t indulge in a cranberry-based side dish? Their loss, as far as I’m concerned.
 
If you need a great cranberry sauce recipe, follow these instructions from Toni from Allrecipes.com. ​It only requires a few ingredients, the end result is super tasty, and the whole thing only takes about fifteen minutes to prepare.
  
A harvest-related celebration is also a lovely time to reflect on life and life’s blessings – and, upon reflection, I realized I hadn’t made a Kiva donation for a while. In the spirit of the holiday, I decided to find a cranberry farmer who needed a loan. I did not succeed in this quest. After a little too much time in this fruitless hunt (pun intended), I decided that maybe I ought to look for a turkey farmer, instead. This, for the Piranha Brothers, was the turning point.
 
Sorry. Watching a little too much Monty Python of late.
 
The turkey farmer I found was the nice young woman in the blog photo. Anahit and her family raise different kinds of livestock, including poultry, in Armenia. Plus, she and her husband have a two-year old, and I love babies, so it was an easy decision to join two dozen other lenders and sent a few dollars for farm supplies.
 
See you next week.

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A.S. Akkalon link
11/23/2016 02:24:27 pm

I'm so glad we don't do the Thanksgiving craziness here. Plus, I'm really not a fan of cranberry sauce. Or turkey.

What a cool idea of a holiday themed donation! I tried to grow cranberries once, but they all died. (Don't point out that it's weird to grow cranberries if you don't like cranberry sauce. It's more a matter or trying to grow everything you can, seeing what survives, and learning to like that. The answer is plums, which I also don't especially like.) Perhaps I should try turkeys instead.

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Anne
11/24/2016 09:52:00 am

Oh, but it's a lovely holiday, with more of an emphasis on family than I've indicated here. I enjoy it greatly.

And I love that you tried to grow cranberries, even though you don't like them, just to see if you could make them grow. I'd try the same with asparagus except...what if the asparagus survived? It's a lose-lose scenario!

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A.S. Akkalon link
11/24/2016 11:10:06 am

No! Asparagus is the devil! It probably would survive too, just to spite you.

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Wealthy Introductions Missouri link
10/27/2022 06:16:44 am

This was a lovely blog posst

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