Today is Canada's Thanksgiving Day which started appropriately enough in Newfoundland around 1578. That beats the first American Thanksgiving by quite a bit.

I was born in Canada and the province of Ontario. I'm very thankful for that. I enjoy both the city and rural life of Ontario very much.

I'm also thankful for the multicultural aspects of our country that enrichs all parts of our life.

I'm also thankful that I have a good job and a good pension with Canada Post. This is something that many Canadians don't have.

I'm thankful for my late mother, Doreen Barron who helped me and my loving wife through troubled times. Bless you, mom. You're still missed.

I'm thankful to God for my good health and my ability to express my thoughts on paper. 

I'm thankful that I live in a democratic country where I can exercise my fundamental human rights.

Finally, I'm thankful that I have a sense of humor and that humor sometimes finds it way to this blog.

Have a good Thanksgiving eh!!! Have a Lakeport (It's a buck a beer.) to celebrate and keep cheering for the Leafs. They'll win the Stanley Cup in your lifetime or your kid's lifetime or......have another beer.