Pumpkins galore for Thanksgiving Canada, USA

Thanksgiving is THE big family based celebration both in Canada in October and USA in November (3rd Thursday). For the Canadian Thanksgiving we had the pleasure of attending a traditional dinner with our Nova Scotia friends, Pat and Guy along with their friends, I think 10 of us in all.
Wine and good chat flowed a'plenty.

“	A Day of General Thanksgiving to Almighty God for the bountiful harvest with which Canada has been blessed – to be observed on the 2nd Monday in October.

Harvest festival, with churches decorated with cornucopias, pumpkins, corn, wheat sheaves, and other harvest bounty.
In Nova Scotia they go mad for pumpkins, jack 'o lanterns, and more pumpkins. There are really scary pumpkin people, life size standing in the gardens, along the roads, in fields, on business premises with human clothes and pumpkin heads. Very much like Micheal Jackson Thriller extras hanging around. sorry no pics! I feared their pumpkin souls would devour mine.

Sheafs corn, pumpkins, scarecrows: displays outside stores & houses

In the US the main thing about Thanksgiving, held on a Thursday, is Black Friday when big sales happen for the weekend. People even camp out the night before with stores opening till midnight/24 hrs. Madness! We had a lovely Thanksgiving dinner with M's brother, thanks to Angela the cook, local turkey and veggies and NO mashed potato, roasted only delicious.

Wikipedia: It has officially been an annual tradition since 1863, when, during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of thanksgiving to be celebrated on Thursday, November 26.^[1] The event that some Americans commonly call the "First Thanksgiving" was celebrated by the Pilgrims to give thanks to God for guiding them safely to the New World.^[2] The first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days, providing enough food for 53 Pilgrims and 90 Native Americans.^[3]