A different bird in southern Manitoba
By Jake Siemens
Killarney, Manitoba
My two sisters and I rotate hosting duties for Thanksgiving, and this year it was our turn. Which was great because it meant we had three generations' worth of help to bring in the last stragglers of the harvest. Everyone got their fingernails dirty pulling up the last of the potatoes. And we still had a fair amount of tomatoes on the vine, so those were all collected and canned later in the week.
As for Thanksgiving dinner itself, we had 15 of our nearest and dearest gathered round a table full of delights from our garden – potatoes, pumpkin, parsnips, brussel sprouts. To top it off, my nephew even bagged a couple geese from the lake in the back forty. I prefer turkey, but what the heck? It felt great that so much of the meal came from our own land.
