One big thing that I like about living up here in The Canada is the long, slow descent into the holiday season.  Canadian Thanksgiving is the second Monday in October, and so there’s no handy date on the calendar that demarcates the annual winter shopping season with doorbusting 5 a.m. sales and trampling crowds crazed by consumerism.  (That, for the record, is more of what happens on Boxing Day.)

While I have been pretty occupied by loving every last bit of our protracted if unspectacular fall, it is surprisingly heartening to see hints of Christmas appearing before the snow sets in.  I went to the Big Supermarket yesterday to pick up a box of Victoire! and a mondo bag of chocolate baking chunks, and they’re starting to put out endcaps of President’s Choice truffles, caramels, chocolates, and cookies, and spicier, seasonal versions of teas and cookies are peppering the shelves as well.  And they’re putting the decorations up on our street this week.

I don’t know what it says about me when my favorite time of year is in the short, bleak, slanted-light days of mid-November, but for the moment, I am really enjoying the best of both worlds.

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