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Holiday Prep and celebrations

Diana Delafield said:
4everchan's link tells you all about the berries, which are widely grown, just happen to have the same name as the city. They look like blueberries but taste, to me at least, tarter, more like cranberries. My mother just used a blueberry pie recipe and substituted Saskatoon berries.

You can buy the jam on Amazon.ca or in many grocery stores. I've never seen the berries growing wild, but my husband often brought home a tin of them when he'd been backpacking in the mountains. He'd let me have some to bake into muffins, and he'd dry the rest for his homemade trail mix.
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I will try the jam. Nova Scotia has a crumble-like dessert but blueberries are used for it I believe. The pie sounds delicious
 
My heart is broken but I have decided not to celebrate July 4th this year. My B-day is the 7th (same as Sofia Akateva) and that is enough.
 
elbkup said:
My heart is broken but I have decided not to celebrate July 4th this year. My B-day is the 7th (same as Sofia Akateva) and that is enough.
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Many people in Quebec sign their lease for July 1st, Canada day :) So, for many, Canada day is the stat holiday when you get to move to a new flat... yeah... so not much celebrating possible for those who move. For the others, the streets are so busy with moving trucks that it's almost best to stay home :) In other words, you do what you gotta do :)

Happy Bday in advance ;)
 
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Yom Kippur (The Jewish Day of Atonement) begins tonight @ sundown & ends about an hour after sundown tomorrow evening. It is the holiest day on the Jewish calendar. We fast on this holiday (If we are physically able) & pray for forgiveness for our wrongdoings of the last year. The greeting for the holiday is "G'mar Chatimah Tovah = May you be SEALED for a good year (On Rosh HaShanah - We pray that we may be inscribed in the Book of Life for a good year). So, for all of the Jewish posters here, if you fast, may it be an easy & meaningful fast. G'mar Chatimah Tovah!
 
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Ready for Halloween in my place!


Here are my windows. The left window is a bat with purple lights. The center window is a ghost flag, and the lights around the perimeter are green, orange, and purple. The right window is a ghost with white lights.

You can click the pictures to enlarge them.

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Your Halloween 🎃 👻 decorations are great!! I am celebrating Autumn in general. Did a short drive to Lapsley Orchard (close by) Thursday afternoon; came home loaded with stuff I never buy any other time of year: big bag of Macouns, fresh cider, bag of homemade granola, dried flowers, Skyr peach yogurt, smoked cheese, bunch of mini carrots, tiny root potatoes (to stir fry), and a small sack of sugar cinnamon nuts that never made it home. Before leaving also had a hot hazelnut coffee and fresh hot doughnut.. awesome! Locals visit weekdays mostly
Love Fall🍁🍂

Home

New England farm stand with pick your own apples, blueberries, flowers and pumpkins.
www.lapsleyorchard.com
 
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It is snowing today. Our first of the year.

So I decided to put up my Xmas decos... LOL... It's tiny. I am not very into decorating much because I don't like to have to find space for storing all these things that are used for a couple weeks and then gone.

So I have a tiny Xmas tree... about 12 inches high LOL, led garland lights and a wooden reindeer next to the tree.

Falalalala. LOL.

This is the max I can put up with and this is new from last year... in the past several years, there was absolutely no deco in my place :)

I am just a bit less of a grinch this year :)
 
Plenty of Christmas decorating out and about too; festive food and music, street lights, shop windows. Friends visit Quebec at Christmas every few years.. it is very festive I am told
Enjoy the snow! ❄️🎄
 
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