Friday, September 7, 2012

signs of the times

so i went shopping the other day with mom. just running errands and picking up this and that. we went into one store and this was outside...


seemed all natural to me until i realized it was still august...the end of august but still august...and halloween isn't until the end of october...2 months away. i knew/know that we start christmas too early...i have to try very hard not to listen to the christmas music on the radio before december but this was a new one that i noticed...

it took me a few minutes to realize that the timing was off and i put that partially down to having spent so much time in the southern hemisphere where the seasons are opposite from here...in new zealand the trees were changing color in april but when i saw them i just assumed it was sept/october as my wanderings didn't really have me dealing with the date each day

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  2. Halloween is the holiday that comes after the Back to School sales I suppose....and those start as soon as school is out it seems.

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  3. Don't worry, they'll start to put the Christmas displays into the garden centers in very short order. HoHoHo!!!
    I live in an area that has monthly power failures (had one two days ago). Three weeks ago it was 10 hours long. I'm forever re-setting all the clocks in the house. You'll never get away from that Africa experience with each power loss. Bright side of that is it brings back all the memories of great times on that dark (literally) continent. God Bless, Jim

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