It seems true, doesn't it, that July 31st is the last day of summer. We know that August will bring "Back to School" ad campaigns. We are eternally going back to school regardless of our ages.
So August has become an in-between month. In the gardening realm, there aren't any garden tours. Most garden societies don't have an August meeting. Most of the garden centres have reduced stock and hours.
The general state of things can be seen in the August celebrations:
sandwich month
foot health month
national catfish month
romance awareness month
national water quality month
I found a 'get ready for kindergarten month'.
What was notable in August each year was the arrival of the Eaton's Catalogue. Janet and I would look at every page and decide on our favourite items amongst the products available. Well, we didn't exactly look at every page. We looked at all the ones related to house, home and apparel.
This had no relationship to purchasing. Things were not often purchased from the catalogue, only rarely. And definitely not by us. But it became a consumer's bible, training us from an early age to discern between product design, features and price. That now seems like a lot of training in making simple choices and decisions.
I took this picture while visiting with the Buffalo Walk front porch gardener in yesterday's picture. She was as surprised as I was to see this.
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