I love this time of year. I do. Doesn't it feel busy though? Doesn't it feel like there's so much going on?

I always feel as though the first nine months of the year, they just kind of do their thing.

The winter, the way the year always starts, winter always feels slow to me. But then you get into spring and you

start having some holidays. You start looking forward to summer and then summer comes and then summer

every day feels like, hey, we've got something we can do if we want to. Summer feels free. And then,

you know, nearing the end of summer, you're sort of battening down.

You go, okay, well, we got kids going back to school, and we've got to start getting ready

for fall and pumpkin spices out everywhere.

We've got that happening, and we have to start doing our Christmas shopping.

But let's not worry about that right now.

Let's just make sure we're into the fall season and getting into the groove of things

and traffic patterns kind of resume their normal flow

as people are done with their summer vacations and things like that.

And you go, okay, September, October, we're kind of in the flow.

We're flowing.

We got holidays coming up. We know it, but we're not

worried about it. We get a little later into October. We're having a pumpkin spice everything's

right now. You have my pumpkin spice latte, but pumpkin spice biscuits, a pumpkin spice

gasoline. You know, everything's pumpkin spice now, just whatever it is.

Diesel.

And then you got Halloween and then after Halloween, as soon as Halloween happens, boom!

All the stores start putting up all the Christmas crap.

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