Oh the weather outside is frightfully hot! What part of Christmas am I not getting?
Today a teacher at school was wearing a big wide-brimmed sun hat with a tinsel "ribbon" around. The Christmas themed food magazine at the market featured a cover photo of a decorated holiday dinner table and a large bowl of cherries. The decorations at K-Mart are next to the sundresses and flip flops. Everyone's planning their beach bonfires and camping trips during the holidays. I'm still wearing shorts to work. Pat only puts his long jeans on to go fishing in and not get eaten by mozzies (mosquitos).
Even today at school Santa came in onto the playground on a firetruck with the siren going. All the children cheered and ran over for their token candy canes. The teachers asked me if Santa comes to our school. I said yes, but not on a fire truck! "How does he come in?" "Well, it's cold and raining, so we're usually inside, so he just, well, walks in."
Since it's summer here, it stays light until 8:30 p.m., so to see Christmas lights you have to wait up past my bedtime to go driving around! No driving home from work in the dark, running an errand at Fred's and being cheered on with the twinkling lights.
It's the one thing about being here this year (okay there are two - the darned turn indicator/windshield wipers) that I just can't get used to - the seasons being at a different part of the year. Cherries and Christmas don't go together in my book! Wading pools in the backyards with the Christmas tree in the window just don't match! No mitttens, no scarves, no sweaters, not even citrus!
Even the teachers don't wear the proverbial Christmas sweaters to school. The crazy holiday earrings, yes. But instead they wear sundresses and holiday themed tee shirts that say, "On Dasher . . . " Who knew?
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