The early birds get the tree

I prefer to get an advent calendar just in time to start opening it, Christmas cards in early December, and a tree a couple weeks before Christmas. But supply chain issues are affecting everything, plus the heat dome in June killed some of the local Christmas tree crop, and local tree farms were describing their availability in terms like "we open November 26th and will stay open until we run out of trees, which might also be in November", so we went tree hunting unseasonably early, yesterday, and got ourselves a nice little Nordmann fir which is slightly shorter than me.

I wound up getting an advent calendar on Thanksgiving, not that I originally intended to go shopping on Thanksgiving, but I discovered we were going to run out of eggs the day afterward, and decided I'd rather hit the grocery store Thanksgiving than Black Friday.

Between the Christmas songs that were playing at the store, the tree, the lights going up all over the neighborhood (even the postal truck is wearing a string of them), I have to admit I am kind of feeling the holiday spirit.