Half Full by Maria Scrivan for September 13, 2024

You forgot fresh apple cider and doughnuts from the orchard!

Not in eastern N.C. Still feels like summer.

I live in a relatively upscale area, where the most attractive and expensive house (on the market for $1.2 million) has a 12 foot skeleton up 365 days of the year. It just wears different headgear and carries different accessories for different seasons and holidays. The neighbors either hate or love it, but we have no HOA, so he keeps it going. I get a kick out of the creativity. Bunny ears and a giant basket full of Easter eggs. An Uncle Sam top hat, one hand holding a giant fake sparkler that had LED lights that twinkle at night, the other holding a giant plate with fake apple pie. Just so many different clever ways to give him character.

Slanting rays at dusk. Shorter days.

Since fall means football to a fair number of people, I already see symbols of sports teams displayed. (In my area, which is about 60 miles from Green Bay, it’s Packers paraphernalia.)

Hurricane symbol.

Man, I hate the last two of those things

I grew up in south Lousyana, no fall colors and no sweaters until January.

I associate all these things with October. Most of September is in Summer, y’know?

Or, in my case, 90 degree weather. Boo hiss.,

One of my neighbors has had a 12 ft. skeleton up since February. I believe it has grown roots.

My Homedepot have about ten life-size animated Halloween characters with foot buttons to activate. I decided to try all of them several times because no customers had the courage. Got several going at the same time. Who is going to challenge an octogenarian having some fun? The store manager………. See my gocomics icon, that’s not the manager but one of the automatons.