Good grief….. It seems like it was just Halloween! While driving to the grocery store today, I saw my first shopping center that was all decked out for Christmas! Can you believe that it isn’t even Thanksgiving, and already the shops are putting out wreaths? I guess that when the temperatures are as beautiful as we are experiencing here in San Antonio, the shop keepers need to do something to remind people to spend their money.
But, as usual, I digress……
I think that my psyche is conditioned to think of Thanksgiving as being three and a half weeks into November. With the first of November falling on a Thursday this year, my body’s routine has been messed up! Can you believe that we only have two weeks until Thanksgiving? I don’t think that I am the only one who hasn’t noticed that in exactly two weeks, some of us will be spending our entire day cooking, baking, peeling, mashing, carving, serving, and ultimately cleaning so that the other members of our family can enjoy a day of feasting and leisure.
Since Thanksgiving is falling so early in the month this year, this morning I noticed that the turkey isle in my grocery store wasn’t in total disarray…. There are still turkeys of every size available. Usually, two weeks before the big day, the turkeys have been picked over so much that you would have to either settle on a turkey so small that you would have to read its label to make sure it wasn’t a chicken, or a turkey so big that it wouldn’t fit in my normal-sized oven. Not so this year!
Anyway, to some of you out there who were as oblivious as I was…. Don’t be fooled by the decorative wreaths that you spot all over your towns/cities. Thanksgiving truly is around the corner…
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