The Hobo Camp Fire Is going well #VII.. Stop In!!!

[ezdays]

Good morning all, it's hard to believe, but we're days away from Thanksgiving here in the US. If you think our election advertising was deplorable and confusing, how about all these "Black Friday" ads? I'm sorry, but I thought using that term defined the day after Thanksgiving for shoppers, not, "Black Friday is here all month". Christmas decorations were in the stores long before Halloween, and one local radio station started playing Christmas music 24/7 starting last Tuesday. Ads with Santa Claus and elfs have replace those of the politicians the day they went off the air, and I thought those, "Christmas in July" ads were way out of line. I guess though, if you're selling something, you use every means to do so even if it means distorting the meaning and times of the holidays. To me, the "Holiday" season starts on Thanksgiving and ends January 2. You put up the tree and decorations anytime between Thanksgiving and Christmas Eve, and you take them down as soon after Jan 2 and you can. It's tradition, why let the retailers and big business change that?

Enough of a rant on that subject, it won't change anything, I just hope that it doesn't get progressively worse and eventually we find that the Easter and Christmas seasons merge as one....

Hows the weather here? Well, we had the A/C going earlier this week, and two days later, we turned on the furnace. It's just not fair, we've gone from the high 80's one day to the low 70's the next. We also have rain in the forecast for the beginning of the coming week.