Happy Thanksgiving to the Canadians here

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Yes, it's a day that doesn't mean too much anymore to a lot of people who don't have family around them. When my mother was alive, my sibs and inlaws would get together for turkey, usually on the Sunday instead of the designated Monday (I don't know why we need to standardise all holidays to Monday... what good is a long weekend when you don't work?) So, now that Mom's gone, we don't get together any more. My one cousin in Toronto (an only child) would invited me for Thankgiving and Christmas when I lived in Hamilton but both she and her husband are smokers and I'd come home stinking of it. Add to that, the long bus ride into TO, then the long subway ride up to her neighborhood... after a few years I stopped going. No, I didn't cook a turkey. If it wasn't raining yesterday I would have gone out to do a bit of shopping and maybe bought a "TV dinner" but when you're reduced to taking a bus that only gets you near where you want to go, and you can't carry an umbrella because you're pushing a walker, you stay home and stay dry. So what did I have for my glorious feast? Stovetop stuffing and canned turkey, with a side of canned corn.