The Holiday Season on 10th Avenue

It’s that time of year again when my neighbours across the street place inflatable dolls on their roof - a giant pumpkin for Halloween, a turkey for Thanksgiving and then a snowman for Christmas. It’s all quite unusual for our street which is normally quite unadorned even at Chrismas time. But a couple of years ago, some new folk arrived across the street, and they have this inflatable doll thing going on. I don’t know them at all (unusual in itself) and they seem quite reserved and private in every other way (I never see them talking to other neighbours on the street) and they don’t have children (so it’s not for the kids). Nevertheless, right on schedule, just before Halloween, the blow up pumpkin goes on the roof. The day after Halloween, the pumpkin is replaced by a turkey and then right after Thanksgiving we get the snowman.

I used to fantasize about getting a gun and shooting holes in them, but I realize they are those constantly inflating devices and you need a really big hole to deflate them – a shotgun might do it. But then I don’t have (and never will have) a gun so it’s just a fantasy. It’s probably not a good idea anyway.

Here are some photos.




Oh, I forgot to mention – at night they are illuminated!