Way to go Karen!!!

Congrats Karen!!! ummmm, can I have your autograph?

Christmas?......ok, but not yet!!!

So, I walked into the Walmart (the RVer's store of choice) the other night on my way into Rockford, IL and was accosted by a full section of Christmas "stuff" (because that's what it was, holiday fluff) and blaring Christmas music. At first it caught me off-guard....then I thought about it said to myself, "what the heck?! it just turned November 4 days ago...what will Thanksgiving do when it finds out Walmart is skipping it all together. Perhaps Thanksgiving might take a hit of tryptophan early and just roll over and go to sleep until next year...at which time it will awake to find Christmas is being hocked even sooner, so Thanksgiving will become depressed, go through a period of questioning its identity as a holiday and valued member the calendar year and just skip out on earth to find another planet more accommodating.....perhaps a happy place, a planet where, they too created a calendar based on it's lunar cycles and then actually FOLLOWS the holidays it creates and doesn't allow money hogs (aka-retailers) to dictate when people (ok, so aliens in this case) doesn't allow the greedy to dictate when those aliens will be surrounded by holiday "cheer."

So, after pondering Thanksgiving's cozy relationship with aliens, the next thought in my mind was, "where will they dray the line?" Next year, will it be Oct. 1 when they start to market Christmas? Will it eventually reach the point where they sell it all year....and then I remembered, there ARE places that sell Christmas stuff all year 'round....that's just sad......so what do we, as concerned citizens of America (since Thanksgiving is an American holiday after all) do about this situation??....................to be continued