All Decorated up and No Place to Show

 For over a month now, I have been seeing holiday decorations.  First, it was the last of the Halloween decorations.  Some place went over the top.  Other place chose to go the more understated route with an autumnal theme.  Such a decision could stay up longer as well.  Even before November started, some people had started putting out Christmas decorations.  Yes, some people had Thanksgiving decorations up first, but not too many.  Mostly, I have seen the inflatable turkeys in at least two different sizes.  Of course, at least one house that I drive past every day when a somewhat different route.  I have mentioned them before.  They are the ones that have mannequins up all year round, dressed up for every holiday.  Originally, they seemed to have masks marking them as some sort of zombies, although that aspect of their get-ups seem to have mostly fallen by the wayside.  This Halloween, the house had at least ten different mannequins up.  Among them were a trio of witches at a cauldron, a pirate queen, and a demon nun.  I even saw a pair of legs with the red and black tights of Harley Quinn, but that was after the holiday and the decorations were being taken down.  Well, some of them were reused for Thanksgiving.  One is a female pilgrim with long reddish-purple hair.  Another is a Native American woman in somewhat traditional garb.  There is even a turkey decoy nearby.  Oh, and there is also a zombie scarecrow with a pilgrim hat on it.  I call it a zombie because of the face mask.  It is a scarecrow because it is stuck up in the garden plot they had out this past summer.  Also, one of its hands was positioned by its hip.  Actually, it is in front of itself, around the crotch area.  As if it might be trying to pleasure himself or something.  The scarecrow has been knocked down at least twice, but it hasn't been put back up since the most recent falling.  I admit, I sometimes sneak such stunts into some of my decorating myself.  You should look at my store's Christmas wreath.  It has a sneaky jab on display that I think most people will overlook.  While that person's display might not have been appropriate, at least we can appreciate how they manage to use such decor for more than one holiday.  Other people have been doing so as well.  Just this past weekend, I saw a Halloween decoration remade for Christmas.  It was a giant skeletal dragon, with a Santa hat on its head.  Hey, if you spend hundreds of dollars on a decoration (an estimate based on other such decorations I've seen in catalogs), then you should try and use it as much as possible.  Even when it isn't exactly appropriate.  That isn't even the only Christmas dragon I've seen this year.  At least one other house has a small inflatable Christmas dragon out.  Legitimately Christmas.  It was displayed as if it was getting ready to fight a Christmas T-rex.  Both were under three-feet tall.  Well, at least they weren't penguins.  Don't get me wrong.  I don't hate penguins.  Unless they are being used as Christmas decorations in the Northern Hemisphere.  All kinds of wrong there.  Even worse than naughty zombie pilgrim scarecrows.