Christmas a Month Early

We wish our US family and friends a happy Thanksgiving which they have the 4th Thursday of  November.  But up here "It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas."   Our post-polio group has its meetings the 4th Thursday of the month and today we were celebrating Christmas a month early.    We had a short meeting and then a big turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and cabbage rolls and all the trimmings, and black forest cake for desert.   It was really a wonderful meal catered by an older couple from out of town which someone in the group knew. After dinner there was some Christmas carol singing and visiting.    

The weather here has also seemed like Christmas a month early.  By three weeks into November we have already had at least 3 big snow storms that clogged up the streets.   This morning it was -27C with -39C windchill but the temperature went up during the day and it was -8C when we were coming home from the Christmas dinner.    So we hope for some more moderate weather for the next while.