Thanksgiving in New Hampshire

It's been an interesting Thanksgiving for many people in southern New Hampshire. The power went out Wednesday night during a snowstorm, and it hasn't returned for many people since. One friend packed up the turkey and the family and drove down to his Mother's in Massachusetts. Another friend skipped Thanksgiving on Thursday, but their power returned Friday morning, so they put the bird in the oven and had Thanksgiving Friday afternoon.We have a generator so our Thanksgiving went ahead without a hitch, but cable is also out, so that means no TV and no Internet. I'm here at the local YMCA catching up on email and making sure the website is still up. Happy Holidays, everyone.--Percy

Us folks don't do Thanksgiving - for obvious reasons - but we do do the big family dinner thing with Turkey on Christmas day.Last year the oven blew up so we did the whole damn thing on the BBQ. Turned out very well considering. But it was 3 hours late. And the sprouts were disgusting.

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Cook and cleanup at the same time ...

Power and cable had been restored by the time I returned.--Percy

I worked on our Thanksgiving, a month and a half ago, and I worked on Black Friday. Work is good. The power is on. (It has to be reliable here or we'd be extinct.) I have no cable, no TV and no Internet but the coffee maker is working.

Where you are isn't TOO much worse than where my father grew up in Alberta, with snow over the barn roof many winters, riding to school in a horse-drawn sledge with rocks heated on the wood stove for warmth and still you got "chilblains." You'd survive without power, they did. It always sounded romantic to me but I'm sure I wouldn't survive a day of it, I'm too "American."I didn't do Thanksgiving, family is too far away, but they'll be here after Christmas so I won't be completely left out of the loop.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

Yeah, it's about the same except that they get more "chinooks" (warm winds from the mountains). I did that, my first year of school in 1958. We had a little wood stove in the sleigh. My dad still had that stove when he died in 1997.Funny, I remember in some detail how he built the sleigh, which had a fully-enclosed cabin, but I don't remember the horse at all.

I was sure my aunt used the word "sledge" for "sleigh," have you heard that?Your version was a lot more civilized though, how very sophisticated to have an actual stove, even a cabin.By the way I was the only one who knew the word "Chinook" in a Trivial Pursuits game.Edited by Faith, : No reason given.

It's never used around here. I think we've absorbed "Santa's sleigh" pretty thoroughly. It's also an Indian tribe and a helicopter.

It referred to a weather pattern in the game.

And a salmon.

Chinook is also a Native American tribe and language.

Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah, but how many of you would have known that a western Canadian wind was called "Chinook?"

probably most of us

OK, congratulations. The people I was playing with didn't. Helicopters and salmon they would have thought of but not a Canadian wind.