Completely OT: WTF Home Depot...?One thing I've noticed the last few seasons is: Home Depot has these effing awesome Halloween and Christmas decorations... but for some reason, you can't seem to get them up here.
For years, even in Tejas, Gary and his cousins have been a Holiday-time hit; and for the pittance they ask (~$US110-180) actually a pretty fair bargain for 10-12ft tall inflatables. But last year (or was it 2019?) they released a couple of really interesting ones; a 12-foot poseable skeleton (with really creepifiyin' moving LCD eyes) and a smoke-breathing green dragon.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Home-Accents-Holiday-69-in-Halloween-Giant-Black-Silver-Dragon-21PA94025/315534548#overlayRight now, if I shop the Niagara Falls store, I can buy this fellow... yeah, he's a whopping US$400, but he's almost 6 feet tall, animatronic, plus he roars and will even breathe smoke if you connect a fog machine to a pipe in his arse. If you look up dragon on homedepot.com, you get 6 pages of hits, including over a hundred Holiday and other decorations, with all the dragons, skeletons, creepifying mummies, darkly robed zombie-oid and witchily figures you can dream of.
https://www.homedepot.com/b/Holiday-Decorations/N-5yc1vZbd6e/Ntk-elastic/Ntt-dragon?NCNI-5&sortorder=desc&sortby=priceMeanwhile, on homedepot.ca, this is what you get.
Literally wallpaper and flower seeds. Oh, and a wee little 3 foot Gary, who is not available yet and from past experience
he never comes available.I've been watching now for 2 1/2 holiday seasons... and I
never see this awesome stuff come available, even if I did have the money to blow on any of it.
So seriously...
EDIT: Yes, I'm not so daft I don't know the obvious probable answer: COVID. But seriously; in the face of such unnatural circumstances, decorating for the holidays is one of the few "sociable from a distance" activities and exercise you can do reasonably safely around your home. To take that away seems unconscionable to me. mnem
*prepares for all the worst jokes at the tinkerdwagon's expense*