The Seven Weeks of Xmas

Bro and I ventured forth, GrannyJ to get her flu shot -- magic against three kinds of flu...

...only to be greeted in the pharmacy foyer by signs of the Xmas season. Lordy, this is only the first week of November.

Inside the store, Halloween was going half price.

And, yes, here were the first of the season's household decorations already lit up. What, oh what will the merchandisers do once Xmas is past?

In the booze corner, the bro discovered what happens to all that wine produced in his home country -- it's in the States, going for maybe 75% of what it fetches back in Oz.

Mirror, Mirror

The bro (hermano) and I 1) took the little bus-about-town over to Whipple, 2) whence we walked up a side street to Las Fuentes to visit Mom. There we saw this lovely traffic mirror. A picture is called for, shouted the bro; hokay, sez I. Here it is. This seems to be my week for mirrors.

Here's what we looked like in a funhouse sort of way. (Did you notice what happened to the building?) And. Introducing the little bro, usually signed "hermano" when he sends his comments all the way from Perth in OZ. Tomorrow: all about our night's entertainment on South Montezuma.