Really? They wait until Halloween in your neck of the, um, prairie?? I kid you not, the GUM department store (the one with the big red star, aka Macy's) here had Christmas, um, stuff out MID-SEPTEMBER.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 12/22/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Annie Grieshop</b> <<a href="mailto:annie@allthingspiano.com">annie@allthingspiano.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Yeah, when I was little, we put the tree up on Christmas Eve and took it<br>down on Epiphany. Pretty strange to have the Christmas season begin the day<br>after Hallowe'en (and end as soon as the gifts are unwrapped).
<br><br>So I'm with you, Barbara!<br><br>Annie<br><br>> -----Original Message-----<br>> From: Barbara Richmond [mailto:<a href="mailto:piano57@insightbb.com">piano57@insightbb.com</a>]<br>> Sent: Saturday, December 22, 2007 1:36 PM
<br>> To: Pianotech List<br>> Subject: Re: On the 22nd day of December<br>><br>><br>> Timing is everything.<br>><br>> I just got my Christmas decorations up this week and in today's<br>> paper was an
<br>> article about taking them down... :-o<br>><br>> br<br>><br>><br><br></blockquote></div><br>