Thanksgiving Greeting Cards

Sure! Thanksgiving could also be a luau. Why not?

This and your luau wizzley are so timely!

Might it not be possible to adjust Friends- and Thanks-giving cards and plans to a luau happening?

The Hawaiian luau operates from an ohana ("family" as that into which you're born and that which you make with your friends) context.

And your luau wizzley pushes me toward a thankful November get-together what with all the attractive orange colors in your suggestions and what with the amiability of turkey to all sorts of preparations, such as luau-like camp-firing and grilling!

Boar's Head distributes their hummus products through all area Kroger stores. Their tasting hours there got my attention because one hostess in particular notices when the deli gets lots of business. She moves seamlessly between hosting the sample table and slicing Boar's Head meat so that the deli employees can attend to all other orders.

So I pondered sampling even as I tend toward my shopping list, not things extraneous.

Boar's Head presents such non-traditional hummus -- which I ordinarily would pass by since I tend to be a stickler about ethnic foods authentically presented outside their culture -- as apple pie (which I missed, because in the spring months before I sampled this fall) and chocolate (year-round, so I sampled) and pumpkin pie (fall months, so I sampled and like competitively with the chocolate).

So I wonder whether or not to serve the pumpkin-pie hummus as part of Thanksgiving fare.

What would you think if you were at a Friends- or Thanks-giving dinner that was basically traditional but that served a pie shell with pumpkin-pie hummus in it instead of an actual pumpkin pie?

Hawaiian culture appreciates ohana as a birth family, a created family of friends or a mixed family of members by birth and by extension (such as acquaintances and such as non-nuclear family relatives).

The three Hawaii-related television series choose, with few exceptions, more a family created alternatively to birth -- in other words, all friends -- than one by birth.

Does Friendsgiving fit into a similar kind of configuration? Might it be a get-together of all-friends or might it be a get-together of predominantly friends, but sometimes scaterredly, sporadically augmented by family members albeit in the minority in terms of total numbers?

(Or must no family member ever overlap in Friendsgiving arrangements? ;-D)

As far as I know it's Thanksgiving, but with friends instead of family. So the same, just without an all family meal and gathering.

This is a bit related, a bit unrelated but the traditions being established with Friendsgiving intrigue me.

Might Friendsgiving activities, meals and schedules similarize those of Thanksgiving? Or might there be obvious or subtle differences that support giving the thankful get-together a different name?

Thank you!

Exact arrival appeals to me in regard to online cards. In fact, I appreciate sending greetings out that will be received the eve of a holiday, such as Valentine eve, Easter eve, Memorial Day eve, July 4th eve, Labor Day eve, Halloween eve (;-D), Thanksgiving eve, Christmas eve and New Year's Day eve.

Online cards assure me of that even as the postal service -- as much as its longevity attracts me -- augurs imprecise delivery times, particularly regarding post offices that avail themselves of a trucking service to the central disbursing facility across the border (where it gets resorted and then sent back to where it came from, to be delivered chez moi!).

Hi, thanks for the comment DerdriuMarriner. Zazzle now offers this downloadable option and I'll admit I am not super familiar with downloads. But, once you buy the card, it's yours to do as you wish (except sell the design as your own) so yes, once you buy the download, you could send it out whenever you wish - Thanksgiving Eve!

The computer crashed before I completed my comment concerning arrival dates of online cards.

Must online cards be receivable by the sendee only the day that the sender orders them?

The online versions of holiday cards are becoming ever more competitive with traditional formats.

In particular, it's quite compelling the way the sender has control over the arrival date of an online card to the sendee.

Might it be possible to choose the online card and customize the date to a specific day, such as Thanksgiving Eve (a date that appeals to me ;-D)?