First Christmas Sighting of 2008

Last year on August 30th, with the temperature hovering around 101 degrees, I walked into the Macy's store in Mission Viejo and found to my surprise that they had their Christmas display up. As the end of August came close this year I checked back there to see if they were going to go that early again, but as of today, nothing.

However, we had to stop at Costco on the way home, and lo and behold (weren't those two of the angels in the Christmas story - you know, Lo the Angel and Behold the Angel), look what I found: A grotesque LED Santa!

LED Santa wasn't alone - they have a host of other LED Christmas figures:

Anybody want to go caroling?