I guess the Holiday Season is over:
- Most people have taken down their Christmas lights.
- I've seen a lot of Christmas trees out at the curb for pickup. Ours will either go out back in the woods as part of a brushpile to provide cover for birds and other animals, or be turned into a bird feeder. I like to strip the branches off, stand the tree against something, and then smear a peanut butter/cornmeal mixture onto the trunk.
- Thankfully, I can walk into a store and not hear brain-damaging Christmas music now (bah! humbug!).
- And perhaps the saddest part of the season being done is that the local grocery stores aren't carrying Claxton fruitcakes anymore. I'm partial to the dark variety (which I haven't seen in stores in years), but like the regular, too. When I saw that my local store wasn't restocking them, I grabbed 4. I'm almost done with those. Maybe I'll order some from their website to get me through the year.