Jane being a Halloween baby, sort of, (a week before) she always gets black cats…all sorts of black cats,. And we have lots of Halloween decorations. We decorate for every season—but this is the beginning of the cycle. First comes Halloween. That will give way, on Thanksgiving Day, to Christmas decorations, when the black cats give way to Jane’s other adored animal—stags. Not reindeer. Stags. Deer with Attitude. 😉 I have snowflake fairys, Hallmark vintage, a large collection thereof; but Jane’s stags and my snowflakes and such predominate. Then Christmas specifically gives way to Winter: the tree goes by the end of January. Winter decor and oil lamps linger until the thaw, and then Spring decorations come out: spring flowers in vases and Flower Fairies that go with them. This year—well, Spring continued until Halloween. We were too frazzled to bring out the Summer Dragon (a Chinese red and gold medallion) and the summer flowers, real ones, often, in vases. We just had spring right through til now—and seeing Jane happily taking the leisure to decorate the living room in black cats and autumn leaves and ceramic pumpkins makes me remember how much I have to be thankful for, so it’s sort of Thanksgiving rolled right up into it all.