EVERY YEAR

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Every year around this time I say, “Not this year. I’m not going to put lights up on the front of the house. It’s just too much trouble.” A few days later I drag out all the lights, extension cords, timer, etc. and start putting them up.

If you have been wondering where Elvis is—he lives across the street from us. Elvis puts up a lot of lights. His house really looks great, year after year. He put his lights up early this year. There are seven houses on our cul-de-sac and Elvis is the only one that is decorated. So, you see if I don’t decorate our sac will look sad. The house just to the East of us is for sale and has been empty going on two years. A man and his wife, both doctors, built a new home costing a few million dollars. They told our little cul-de-sac, “Good-bye.” The family to the West of us may or may not put up a few lights just before Christmas. The family at the corner is Jewish and they don’t decorate. And then there is Elvis. The next family is Jewish and they don’t decorate and then the man who lives on the corner is a bachelor and he doesn’t decorate.

So it’s left up to me and Elvis. I gotta cut this short and get out there and get going!