Flying on Thanksgiving and Owls You Can Make For Thanksgiving

When are the flights empty? Apparently if you want a choice of seats, pick Christmas Day, and in American Thanksgiving Day.

If you are in the USA (fourth Thursday in November) you will be surrounded by people celebrating Thanksgiving, and eating turkey.

Some people like to give guests a take home present. I love these owl biscuits you can make at home wherever you are on Thanksgiving and give to your hosts or guests. Also a great gift to take to a pot luck party, A book group, Writers' Circle, or a Toastmasters meeting.

Two great ideas you can copy, even if you don't have time or reason to make owl biscuits this week:
1 Use a glass tumbler as what the Americans call a cookie cutter.
2 Use balls of dough for decoration, add chocolate buttons for buttons or eyes, use almonds for beaks or claws of birds or animals.

https://blog.etsy.com/en/butter-cookie-owls/

The story of Thanksgiving, according to this account, was not just a dinner thanking God for a safe arrival, but both the God or fate and the natives (then called Red Indians) who had taught the Pilgrim Fathers (and mothers) how to draw and cook local foods. The dinner included turkey, shared with the natives, cranberry, so named because of the stalks bending like cranes.

http://www.crewsnest.vispa.com/thanksgivingusa.htm

If you are not American, you might wish to celebrate Thanksgiving with the Canadians, who celebrate on the second Monday in November.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving_(Canada)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.