Thanksgiving?

We went to the Christmas market in Kiel on Saturday and V fixed a wonderful chowder for supper out of some fresh cod a colleague of mine had caught out of the Baltic the day before (I cleaned it myself). Sunday we stayed home and had a nice large supper with stuffing, gravy, chicken, deviled eggs, asparagus, ... We missed Thanksgiving in all the recent chaos so we told the kids we were having a late Thanksgiving this year. In a sense it was somewhat appropriate. The original traditional Thanksgivings (before the Pilgrims arrived) were held in Virginia at the Berkeley colony and ended up on the first Sunday in December. Yesterday was a Sunday in December. Also it was the shortest day of the year, being the winter solstice, so from now on we can count on six months of steadily increasing daylight! I had to go to work today to set up some things for being untended for ~two weeks, but the loose plan for tomorrow is to go to the Luebeck Christmas market.