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Thanksgiving Shopping

Halloween-Thanksgiving- Christmas-When? Halloween in August, Thanksgiving in September, and Christmas in October. I am a stickler for my store displays and actually, I don’t have the Halloween spirit in August anymore than I have the Christmas spirit in October. It usually doesn’t sail into my mind until after Thanksgiving, so the store stays in the Autumn mindset until the end of November. Capitalism is the life of business but does society have to live for capitalism? When To Shop? The retail industry has twisted people’s minds to their Holidays, their wishes, and their rules for our shopping habits. They subliminally […]

Crates for Me and Turkeys

As a professional, racing greyhound (or rather a now happy “reposing” greyhound), I had a different upbringing than most of my friends. As a puppy I quickly saw that most of my days would be spent in a carrier and a crate. Kennel to track and back again. I of course wasn’t aware that this was not the normal life of all animals; I thought everyone lived like that! Who knew? So when Lynn told me about the animals raised for our food, I immediately identified. Crates,crates, and more crates. Being the Thanksgiving holiday affair is coming; I started wondering […]