There is, in the weekend comics, an amusing commentary in the strip, “Zits”. It features the Duncan family – mother, father, and Jeremy, their teenage son. In this particular strip, Jeremy is walking through the house, seeing a pumpkin display on the dining room table, along with pumpkins on bookshelves, under lamps, everywhere. Going outside, the house is lined with pumpkins – the front steps, the walkways, even up on the roof and around the chimney. Jeremy tells his mother firmly that she has “pumpkin issues”. Yes, indeed. It’s that time of year, and judging by the displays some folks have, they too have pumpkin “issues”.
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Fall Is in the Air
OK – I’ve had my first Pumpkin Spice latte, so I can acknowledge the new season, that summer is slithering into fall. I’m beginning to get the leaf blower out weekly, and soon daily. Normally at this time of year, I write an Ode to Fall, a celebration of the changing seasons and all of the wonderful things to which we can look forward. This year, I’m taking a slightly different tack. My daughter needed to return some equipment last week to Xfinity (it’s really Comcast – they can’t fool us), which is in the local mall, and we made a short pass by, and into Old Navy just in case they had something indispensable or on sale for her wardrobe (or mine). We then ventured into the coffee shop there, a Gloria Jean’s, and there it was on the menu board: Pumpkin Spice. It called to me, luring me in seductively as sirens did sailors. As my grandfather used to say, “I can resist anything but temptation.” Like throwing out the first pitch of the season in Fenway Park, the first pumpkin spice coffee is a tradition, a harbinger of all things Fall. Speaking of which . . . .
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