Ho Ho NO!

Blame it on the watermelon.

Had I not ventured into Hobby Lobby looking for something cute and watermelony to put on a table, you wouldn't have to listen to this whiney yakabout.

But I did, so you do.

You see, what I discovered when I got there was nary a watermelon sight. Really and truly... there was not so much as a napkin to decoupage into a coaster.  In fact, there wasn't much for summer merchandise period.  What little they did have had been dismembered by craft vultures and banished to the bargain corner.

All so they could make room

for this.

And aisle after aisle 

of this.

To be honest, my first response was a little bit of panic. Christmas decorations do that to me. The whole Christmas mania thing kind of comes up in my throat and threatens to choke me when the stores first put them out.

But then, I remembered something. This is June. It's not even the end of June, either. We've still got about six weeks before we enter the dog days of summer.  We have not yet begun to bake.

Yet at Hobby Lobby,

 it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.  

Suddenly, I wasn't panicky anymore; I was downright irked. I stood there and glared at it for a minute, and then because I'm a glutton for punishment, I felt the need to walk through Santa Land, getting crankier by the minute.

I tried to titch and snort the whole thing out of existence, but it didn't work.  

I tried to get other gawkers to titch and snort with me, but they were  giddy with excitement.

Finally, I did what I always do. I called my mother and tattled on Hobby Lobby.  Then, I whipped out  the shiny red Kodak and took these pictures so I could tattle to you.

It was bad enough when Christmas started showing up in November, and Thanksgiving got bumped into obscurity.

Then, it moved to October...

And then into September...

But June? 

  For the life of me, I can't understand the rush. 

Do people really need six full months to prepare for Christmas?

Please tell me someone can relate. 

Does anyone else out there think that 

Christmas in  June is entirely too soon? 

 Or are you all  at this moment Ho Ho Ho-ing your way
to the nearest Hobby Lobby all giddy with excitement?