November almost over

It's hard to believe November is almost over... until you look at the stores and see the decorations - makes you feel like Christmas is next week. Some of the stores had Christmas things out at the end of October.
I remember as a kid Santa came to town on Thanksgiving. Until then, no one decorated - not the stores nor the houses. We had a big parade and Santa was at the end and got off at his "Santa house" which was a little enclosure kinda like what you wait for a bus in. And all of us kids would line up to tell Santa what we wanted for Christmas. The main street of town was decorated and referred to as Candy Cane Lane as we had large candy canes on the lamp posts. Then decorations went up.
Somewhere along the line, I think in the early 60's, my parents got this aluminum tree that was rather short as it sat on a table. It was lit by a wheel thing a ma bob that spun and sent different colored lights onto the tree.
Several years ago we got a white tree. Up until then we always did the green tree. Sometimes fake sometimes real. The advantage of the real tree is it smells good and you don't have to store it after Christmas. The disadvantage is you have to string it with lights and remember to water it. So now we are into a white tree that is has the lights already attached. I have a better understanding as to why my parents switched to the fake tree. Much easier!!!!
It's cold and feels like November... and we are just about done getting the decorations out. The tree is in the living room ready to put up. And, we got our first Christmas card yesterday (I don't even have our cards started, yet) So, let the holidays begin... we are ready!!!!