I hope everyone in the great white north had a fabulous thanksgiving weekend! We did here. Again, I told myself I would ration what I ate - but it's THANKSGIVING. Thanksgiving is really the only time that we ever have turkey, turnip, pumpkin pie and - get this - mashed potatoes.

But I was proud of myself for one thing: after I recovered and had about two hours to digest, I got my mum off the couch and we went for a long walk with our black lab Dakota. We did a pretty long walk tonight;