Gee, I guess it's THAT sort of neighborhood

I went out yesterday afternoon to put out the garbage cans for today's pick-up. And was, er... surprised. And yes, it IS only mid-September.

My neighbor explained that he'd been able to get the LAST one of these and it was the demo model so he was particularly concerned that it 'worked' so he was just putting it up now to make sure. There were lights and flimsy stuff to sway in the breezes and you could walk all the way through it, and EVERYTHING! Pretty excited, he was.

And so was I.