Happy Thanksgiving

To all Canadians!

Happy Thanksgiving to you as well......

Happy Thanksgiving and eat lots of turkey!

Happy Thanksgiving to all

Feliz Día de Acción de Gracias!  
                   

My favorite Canadian story is that the day I arrived here some 18 years ago, a fellow Texan banged on my door to give the "newbie" some advice. He said "Don't pay your maid or gardener more than 20 pesos/hour because that will make it hard for all of us. Then he said "Stay away from the Canadians, they are wierd."

I am happy to report that in my time here I now have more Canadian friends than Texan friends.
Happy Thanksgiving to all of my wierd friends.

Great story. Kind of reminds me of a local gringo real estate agent I knew, the kind who never bothers to learn Spanish, who warned me when I was starting my house building that "The workers will steal your materials- you need to count all the empty cement bags and watch them like a hawk."

Not only did my building crew not steal anything, they were always trying to save me money. When we ran out of framing lumber and I asked how much more I needed to buy, one said, "We did a job at my cousin's house and the framing lumber is still there- we could use that". When I went to one of my maestro's houses to pay him his finiquito at the end of the job, he invited me in for dinner. Another invited me to his wedding.