Half Full by Maria Scrivan for November 01, 2022

And Thanksgiving is left out again.

Sorry, it’s going to be another week before I take down my Halloween flag.

Aw, the pumpkin looks sad…

Nope.

Some people do it sooner than that.

Can’t it be a Turkey or something first?

Skipped right over the Cornucopia. Saw a local porch decorated with a pumpkin, a cornucopia, a three foot plastic candle that said Noel, and a Happy New Year banner. Done, till Spring. Well, maybe a few tightly knotted balls of twinkling lights. (My tree top decoration.)

They’ve been side by side for nearly a month now in department stores.

Yeah, don’t skip over the classic cornucopia.

Nope, Christmas does not officially start with me until after Thanksgiving, no matter what the stores want.

If it weren’t for Halloween, they would have stores full of Christmas stuff by August.

Carve only one side then November 1st rotate the Jack O’ Lantern so the solid side shows. Add a brightly painted skull mask for Dia de los Muertos, some dead leaves and a branch of something evergreen, remove mask a day or two later and done for the next month or so.

This would offend my wife. If there is an excuse to purchase decorations she takes it. So it’s Thanksgiving decorations time for us.

Like the razor somebody sold years ago…“push pull, click, click, change blades that quick.”

To bad retail couldn’t wait till after Halloween