The Silly Season

We're still having a bit of adjusting to the whole spring-summer in November to March thing here. It's like long-term jet lag or something. Maybe it's 'hemisphere lag.'

The other weekend when we are at Ferrymead Heritage Village and they had a handbill posted for their 'All American Fourth of July' featuring everything red, white, and blue. My brain was thinking, 'oh, that's coming up--we should go' and I found myself trying to figure out if it was 3, 4, or 5 weeks away.

Seeing the flurry of election results last week had the same effect on me. My brain couldn't wrap itself around the idea that people would be voting now.

All the Christmas stuff in the stores around here isn't helping. I've never lived anyplace where the holiday season meant anything other than hunkering down in the hope of outlasting the cold weather. I wonder if anyone raised in the Northern Hemisphere (north of Miami, anyway)ever really gets used to it.