The Hound was dragged to the friendly hardware store on Saturday and was shocked. The Hound says shocked, to discover it's already Christmas time. Yes, the hardware store people were putting up Christmas tree displays, offering outdoor Christmas displays and giving a glimpse of what The Hound may get for Christmas. Are we jumping the gun, or what?
Perhaps The Hound is confused with the change to standard time, but didn't the retailers used to start putting up the Christmas displays around Thanksgiving and not the day after Halloween? If they're selling stuff this early, what will be the discounts come December? Maybe the economy's as bad as everybody says.
Yet, there's still Halloween stuff --- mainly candy --- to dispose of with deep discounts. Where's all the Pilgrim stuff? The cranberries? The Butterball turkeys?
Maybe we should skip Thanksgiving and go right to Christmas. No turkey, just Christmas goose. Yummo!
