Several Decembers ago Mr. Mercat and I visited our son in Boston. This is the only year he was not going to be home for Christmas. We saw very little in the way of Christmas decorations in the city. We drove out to Concord (shot heard round the world) and I guess I expected more decorations there.. suburb of Boston now. But no except for one block downtown although there was a nice museum display of Christmas trees based upon children’s books. So I had about decided that the town ordinances forbid decorations until we headed back into town and one of the nice big houses with about two acres of front lawn had every decoration you could imagine including giant inflated snow globes and flashing Christmas trees. I loved it. I wanted to stop and tell them that I loved it but Mr. M and our son wouldn’t let me. They are no fun.