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It's Thanksgiving time here in America, and even though retailers leave straight from Halloween to Christmas, I love this holiday.

Thanksgiving gives us a chance to pause and counter blessings. Something that goes back to the first American Thanksgiving celebrated in October of 1621.

The new residence of Plymouth Plantation had a lot to be grateful for. They arrived at Cape Cod 11 months before woefully unprepared.

As historian Nathaniel Philbrooke said, by all rights, none of the pilgrims should have emerged from this first winter alive.

The pilgrims were hoping for a climate like the French Riviera, but no. Even for the cooler climb, that particular winter was brutal.

In fact, half of them didn't live to see another.

They knew plenty about farming, hunting, and fishing. That is if they still lived in England.

But the crops they brought weren't suited for the new soil. Their nets and hooks were the wrong size for local fish.

And while birds filled the Massachusetts skies in the summer, they flew south for the winter.

The Mayflower was supposed to be packed with fish and furs when it returned to England, but instead, it sailed home empty.

Unprepared for another winter like that, the pilgrims would have been wiped out.

But that's not what happened. Wampanoag Indians took an interest in the foreigners and lent a hand.

They taught the pilgrims how to fish and what would grow. The gift was a godsend.

By autumn, the pilgrims were more than surviving. They were flourishing. They did the most reasonable thing imaginable.

They threw a huge party and invited their new neighbors to share in the bounty.

And a quick aside for all food network fans out there, Turkey probably wasn't on the menu.

University of Washington professor Robert Tracy McKenzie says that birds were probably on the table, but wild turkeys were just too tough to shoot.

Instead, they probably had duck, geese, deer, fish, clams, corn, carrots, parsnips and cabbage, oak and eels.

Expressing gratitude was important to the pilgrims and it ought to be important to us too.

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