Rose is Rose by Don Wimmer and Pat Brady for September 21, 2023

It’s too early, Rose. Not yet Halloween, Thanksgiving still a couple of months away, they haven’t even started advertising pumpkin spice after shave yet!

Thanks for the reminder Rose, I need to do an audit of my Christmas stuff too.

Rose, I think you missed the half-price after Christmas sale on decoration

This year one of my neighbors decorated his house with a 15 ft skeleton, giant spider, bed-sheet sized “cobwebs”, and miscellaneous ghosts, gravestones, etc. … at the beginning of September!!!

You may not say it, Jimbo; but she can hear you think it!

Well, he is learning.

The proper response is, “Oh, there you are. Have fun hunny.”

Halloween decorations at the beginning of October…40 days from now…Christmas decorations after Thanksgiving….40+55=95 days from now. Halloween is always 55 days before Christmas.

Orange garlands for Christmas-yuck! The colorist missed the mark.

Never mind that,it’s time to start untangling the Christmas lights——you may get it done by December 20th

They already moved the yard and pool stuff out and the Christmas stuff in.

Hey, Costco has Christmas decorations out now.

There is life and death in the power of the tongue, and a wise man exercises control over it.

Poor Jimbo is giving off mental vibes.

I’ll say it for you Jimbo, “It’s too early. It’s Halloween Time!”

What an amateur. I’m sure June Drabble had her garland inventory completed in July.

Stores now put up Halloween candy displays in late July/early August.

Halloween was ruined when the U.S. Congress extended Daylight Stupidity Time into November, and Canada followed suit. There were rumors that the big candy manufacturers were pushing for this, thinking it would increase the sales of treats. They forgot that Halloween events take place after dark. Kids ended up losing an hour of trick-or-treating time, especially when the holiday fell during the school week.

I wonder if this is why there are now candy displays set up in the middle of summer. Are they trying to make up for the sales they lost in October?

We don’t need to be hearing about Halloween anytime before October 1. And they can wait until December 1 to begin promoting “Christmas.” Greed and materialism have ruined what should be a special time of the year.

Not sure if they still do it but there was a street in Teaneck N.J. that did the whole street for the town

oops was great to see one house tried to out due the others.. was great to see every one out enjoying their work… even the street was blocked off… cop get lots of candy guess it was better then donuts…:)

My wife knew a lady who kept Christmas up year round, inside and out

Nope. Not too early. Time now to check the Hallowe’en decorations and at least make sure where the Thanksgiving (Both Canadian and USAian) and Xmas decorations are.

For some of us, it is never too early. If it makes you happy Rose, that is all that maters!!

I don’t think it’s too early

Happiness is not a destination, it the journey that matters. The Gumbos have all it that takes to enjoy the journey to Christmas.

i once left my Christmas tree up for 9 years

I am Jewish. Husband is Catholic. When we got married I got to do something I always wanted to do – decorate for Christmas.

First year we were married and living in a small apartment we did not have a tree. I bought 2 big pieces of brown color oak tag and while he was work (I worked from home a lot then, even more now) and painted a chimney and hearth on it. I figured out how to tie it to a chair we had. While he was sleeping Christmas night, I got up and assembled it for him. (Even though we moved decades ago – I think it is in the basement somewhere.)

As years went past we have accumulated a LOT of decorations. It became he puts up (with my help) the outside decorations – mostly on the bushes, windows and door in front. At some point putting up the inside decorations and trees became my job. (Something I had always wanted to do – you know how one tends to decorate as one’s family did when they were young – or so friends tell me – my idea of how to decorate was every Christmas movie I had seen.

In addition over the decades we have accumulate more decorations. the second tree was added was the top triangle of the big tree we got rid of. I had moved some of the excessive number of teddy bear ornaments off the main tree and onto the small (tree top) tree which I put upstairs near the teddy bears and their room.