Welcome to that most wonderful time of the year, built up to for months by the sound of carols and other traditional songs of the season that no doubt arrived at your favorite retailer in tandem with Christmas decorations and the latest plethora of "must have" gifts and gizmos.
In my area of Northern Virginia, the first sights and sounds of Christmas arrived at the local Costco the last week of September, and what an arrival it was!
Entire aisles once dedicated to wholesale club staples such as snacks by the pound, energy bars by the gross, and five-gallon drums of yellow mustard were now crowded with massive wreaths, mega-rolls of wrapping paper and motorized yard decorations. And there, looming over the blinking lights and chirpy tunes like the Statue of Liberty over New York Harbor, was the crowning glory: a 12-foot artificial, pre-wired, thousand-light Christmas tree.
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