Just wait - Halloween decor will be next...

I am not a fan of pumpkin spice flavored stuff. But I do love fall! Seeing those things serve as a welcome reminder that the end of the dreadful, hot, sticky, worthless summer is ending and fun is coming!!! People missed out on all the fun last year and are READY FOR IT!!!!

I also don't get annoyed at Halloween stuff out in August, or Christmas stuff in September. I love those holidays. They bring happiness. Nothing wrong with that.

I've seen Halloween decor already at Big Lots. You know what's next...

CHRISTMAS?!?!?!?!?!?!! Can't wait!!!!

If it means it's time to watch Elf a dozen times, then YES!

Pumpkin Spice Cheerios and also Coffee are on the shelves near the Halloween candy down the aisle from the summer clearance items.

Ha ha - you all are too funny. I am soooo ready to wave goodbye to summer and our influx of tourists. They dont't know where they're going and drive like jerks arount the rotaries. Brought us the Delta variant.. We can't get into restaurants and entire shelves are stripped bare of foodstuffs. We joke that the locusts are here. Not to mention they don't wear appropriate clothing when they're in our stores. They let their body parts and tatoos hangout, sort of like People of Walmart. It can really be disgusting. Who needs to see that? Occasionally someone WILL be attractive. Our restaurants can't hire enough help and are closed on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. We're in dire straits out here. Nauset Light beach has no parking because the National Seashore can't get constuction materials to rennovate the bath houses. The parking lot has been a construction zone since April. It's the summer that never was.

My neighbor is out throwing frisbees at his trees.... his version of frisbee golf....yelling and screaming like a ten year old child! He stays indoors the rest of the year. We'll get our quiet evenings back. Aaaahhhhh..........

And.....I'm car shopping. Fall back to school shopping keeps people out of the car dealerships. ♥

I've seen fall decorations in stores, but not Halloween yet. It will be shortly as soon as the back to school stuff isn't center stage anymore. I do like fall and Halloween is my favorite holiday, but I hate to see the end of summer. I love summer. Every weekend there is something going on in summer. Parties, fairs, picnics, vacation, activities at the lake, river or creeks, etc.

I heard on the news last night that Home Depot sold out of all their Halloween decorations. Due to shipping problems, they probably won't get anymore. HD suggested people start buying their Christmas stuff now!

This is in Florida.

Jane

Cistco has had costumes for about 3 weeks Haven’t heard that about Home Depot-wow One of our shopping centers has a Spirit Halloween going up

Nicole - what car are you in the market for? I have an underwhelming but healthy 12 year old CRV that I relly don't like. I can't accelerate faster than I can think and it's too big and has poor visibily. I'm petite. It has a back up camera. The side mirrors are in my way and obliterate my view - I've been thinking about a booster seat. Not funny. My husband says I can get any car I want, but I don't know what I want. Maybe an Audi sedan. I don't need an SUV. We have 2 Australian Shepherds, they ride around in my husbands F250.

Yikes seagrass, Cape Cod is so lovely, such a shame what you have to endure.

As for a new car, have you considered an Audi wagon? I love the way Audis handle. And I generally love their designs.

FALL Decor/Halloween is for sure up at -most stores that don't sell school supplies. "Too soon" depends where you live. We certainly have acorns and leaves falling, schools are starting up and apple harvest is just around the corner.

I've already seen some maples start to turn in our area....

NOOOOOO!!!!!!

I have always disliked anything pumpkin and I too have rolled my eyes every year that it seems to make an earlier and earlier appearance. Until.......a few years ago when I discovered Shipyard Pumpkinhead beer. It may now be my favorite thing about fall (which I suppose is not saying much since summer is my favorite season and I hate to see it end). The only problem is, it now comes out waaaay too early and therefore gone off of the shelves way too early -- just when you want that perfect fall beer, on a cold day in front of the football game, it's nowhere to be found; so you have to save a few from your August purchase (yep, it's out now) which is really impossible because it's just so good. Sigh.....popularity ruins everything - ha!

Still, you can keep your pumpkin cereal, coffee, oreos, room spray and whatever else they've decided to turn into a pumpkin, and despite my sweet tooth and love for most desserts, I still won't eat pumpkin pie.

Seagrass: :0)

I need 4-wheel drive or AWD for our Colorado weather. I was thinking Mercedes GLA 300 suv, but there's NO spare tire and the dash screen is sitting on top of the dash, looks like an ipad! BMW suv...same thing. Being petite you should test drive the GLA 250.....it's very comfortable for small people, altho it is an SUV, it can carry very little!

There seems to be a difference in pumpkin spice and pumpkin pie spices for me.

I am always disappointed in pumpkin spice anything as I hope it will taste like pumpkin pie.

seagrass, it is , no doubt, the situation is just as you say it is, but, please dont over state yourself to be in "dire straits". There is much despair and hoplessness in this world.

You could be fleeing a fire in California, desperately climbing aboard a cargo plane, clinging to your small children as you flee those scary thugs with the rifles that want to killl you all, or fighting for breath in some hospital hall way because there is no room---- just a few of todays current flavors of disaster.

Sure that there are more to come.

Tourists often dont know their way around. Sure that they are going to turn around in peoples private driveways when they are on the wrong street and, maybe pause in mid turn because they are not certain of where they are going.

Restaurants closed two days of the week and construction at the national park?

There are many more dire situations than the convergence of summer visitors to Cape Cod, who are also quite well situated.

Two of my friends spent time out at your place this summer. They are both very nice and decent and quite well off, too. I am quite certain that they did not misbehave and I dont know them to have any tatoos. They may have taken a wrong turn somewhere and bought the last two Angus beef steaks at the market, but................count your blessings.

As far as addresses the Delta virus----you are not on an isolated island out there on the cape.

I may be remembering this wrong, but was it not the residents of Cape Cod who had wanted to place a police barricade to prevent others from coming there back at the first of the pandemic? I thouhgt it was there, but am open to the fact that I may be wrong about that. So much crazy stuff happened!

So much irreversable harm has come to us in the last five years. First political and now with a tiny microbe. I am not sure which will, ultimately, be the worst of the two.

Hunker down out there. Summer will be over and they will go back to whereever they came from. I, doubt, though that the world will be any better when they do leave.

Halloween and pumpkin spice? No, that will not make it any better.

I am not a fan of "pumpkin spice" , either .

I did see the small display of decorations at HD the other day. Given the disruption in the supply chains of diddly doo objects of all kinds, it is not surprising, but it may be one positive thing.

I have never been a fan of anything pumpkin flavored. The scent is ok, but I can easily resist pumpkin pie, and just about anything pumpkin.

( I do appreciate how good it is for our dogs when they have gotten diarrhea.. we used to put it in an ice cube tray to have on hand to give the sick pooch -works great and they love it. Vet recommended).

I wonder if it's like cilantro which I understand people are genetically fans of or can't stand?

Sorry for hijacking. I too have seen the costumes at Costco since early August.

I'm not a huge fan of pumpkin spice... but I'm thrilled Halloween has started around here. Early Christmas started last month in some places, so I'm happy to see the other holidays that come before Christmas starting to come out too.

I already picked up most of my new Halloween village pieces from Menards on Sunday before they run out of stock. Hitting Michaels this week since they are already running out of stock. This years Halloween village will be great- I'll start prepping it Labor day weekend, heh.

Pumpkin this, pumpkin that, ugh........there's only 2 good uses for pumpkins - Pies and Jack-O-Lanterns.

Halloween candy has been in the stores for a couple weeks. (Sushi, at Acme). I cringed when I saw it. Bags of mini bars with grinning jack o,lanterns. I dont mind Halloween but not in early August.

Leaves are already falling off some trees here. I read that is due to the dry summer . Evidently a rainy summer results in a colorful fall but now the leaves are just curling up and falling off.

Seagrass, sorry to hear things arent so great on the Cape, although its beautiful there no matter what. I used to go to Chatham and people looked and behaved appropriately but when I went to other towns, yikes.

Tourism is a big money maker. Most tourist towns would be just a little blip on the map with very few amenities.

Function, that is true. I get so darned tired of the whining of year round residents of Jersey shore towns near me. They dread the arrival of summer people and rejoice when they leave, yet the entire economy of the towns is based on summer visitors. They’d be sunk without them. Since many of these towns are built on barrier islands, its only a matter of time until the sea reclaims them.

I do love the Cape and think they have done a much better job of preserving natural beauty.

"Halloween candy has been in the stores for a couple weeks."

I just saw a big display of at the grocery store. I started seeing Halloween/Fall decor for sale in stores last month. Seems it gets earlier each year.

I don't like pumpkin spice but have seen Halloween decorations and cheer. Not because I want to buy them but because it means this ugly, hot, humid unbearable summer will soon be over along with ticks, mosquitoes, and poison ivy. I hate summer. I always spent September on the Cape years ago. I love it but love Nantucket more.

Must be self-defense on the part of pumkins and Halloween since store begin showing Christmas stuff before October 31st now.

I love pumpkins, most of the other winter squashes, pumpkin pie, pumpkin bars, pumpkin spice cappuccino from KwikTrip (half coffee/ half PS cappuccino), piles of pumpkins at roadside vegetable stands... But I don't do 'pumpkin spice stuff' products beyond the cappuccino & coffee mix. So, 'No, thank you to the Oreos, etc." But somebody must be buying it or it wouldn't be on the shelves. I just leave it there at the store along with canned asparagus, dirty rice mixes and Brussels sprouts.

love pumpkin spice coffee, i buy year round! i love pumpkin spice desserts!

ready for cooler temps, so sick of the 3 H's: HAZY HOT AND HUMID! good riddance, can't come soon enough!

I don't care for pumpkin or pumpkin flavored anything, I ignore what I see or hear.

Wednesday morning - cry me a river.