The one draw back on living in what we on the gulf coast consider God’s Paradise. There is a period that you don’t go outside if you don’t have to….. but we don’t have to shovel partly cloudy off our walkway to get to the car so we can go to the beach on Christmas. Lol
You can tell where Jimmy lives… twice use of the regional idiom of Mr (first name). The fairly common southern custom engendering familiarity with respectful title….. common amongst the born and bred, not so common adopted by those transplants here from the north.
Not hard to get….. Watch the Mickey Mouse Christmas Cartoon, and you’ll see that’s what happened with Mickey and Pluto. Starting with Arlo’s (Mickey’s) gesture of the tree’s splendor, then pluto growled (ludwig hissed), and by the end of the cartoon, the tree was destroyed and chipmunks Chip and Dale were found to be the varmints. Janis is just heading off all of the mayhem at the pass.
You go, Tom Sawyer…..