Amanda the Great by Amanda El-Dweek for November 12, 2024

I have a practical solution- I don’t decorate for seasons.

I want ə “Fighting Schwa” tee shirt!

A pumpkin is technically a gourd. :)

My Granddaughter just started to decorate the house for Christmas. I said: “It’s not even Thanksgiving yet!”

I say it depends on the size of the display area. Now that I live in a retirement complex, everyone has a space outside their door for a decoration if you wish. I have a generic display there now, but was considering one for Christmas which would only require a Santa hat. What I have their now is a silly looking large frog sitting on a small table, along with a sign in its lap that says “Don’t let the cat out no matter what it says.” My Christmas touch would be a Santa Hat on the frog.

Every year, for the last few years, I buy a perfect pumpkin as soon as they become available, to put on a little table that lives on my porch. This is not a jack-o-lantern – I do not carve it (or celebrate Halloween ever since the teenage boys not in costume started coming to my door demanding candy). Instead this is my autumn celebration and every year I look forward to seeing how long it will last. This year it didn’t start to rot until late spring/early summer. That’s it for me. The only “holiday” I celebrate is Autumn.

I have 3 gourds. Collected over 3 years. Haven’t moved them off cabinet above the stove in hmmm, 5 years???

Decor requires storing and then finding and putting back out later. I’m over it for the most part… maybe I’ll get back to it

“Slow down Flo Jo”. Tee hee….Oh, this one made me giggle out loud today. : )

I had an American roommate who spent the winter in Bavaria. When she came back, all her vowels were schwa-s. A very sort of languid affectation.