Deborah Edwards-Oñoro 
On the major road in our community, near the interstate entrance and exit, our downtown development authority has an artistic display using straw bales.
The designs change several times a year. It’s always fun to check out the new display.
It’s been going on for years, maybe a decade?
When I drive by, I’ll see bales designed and painted for specific days, like Easter or Halloween.
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It might be a new tradition for our Thanksgiving holiday weekend: putting together a jigsaw puzzle.
But not a typical 300-500 piece cardboard puzzle.
Rather, a wooden puzzle from Puzzle Lab, a Victoria, British Columbia, Canada based company focusing on high-quality puzzles promoting artwork from talented Canadian artists.
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In 2013, as part of National Blog Posting Month (NaBloPoMo), I chronicled my goal of picking lettuce from my garden on Thanksgiving Day in southeast Michigan.
Not an easy goal, given our nighttime November temperatures were often in the mid-teens (Fahrenheit).
And a trip to Florida in mid-November that year meant I had to rely on a heavy mulch of leaves to protect the lettuce while I was away.
It worked! Eleven years ago today, I picked lettuce for our Thanksgiving holiday meal!
This year, I did the same thing. But not intentionally.
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