Mixed feelings about "merchants" at Christmas; they make available all the stuff we can find to give as gifts. In the same breath I'll say that too many merchants get way too heavy, way too early in the season with the "Christmas buying spirit" ethos. The cowboy and his mate are exemplary of "Christmas spirit". I will say too that a few years ago I answered a "Toys for Tots" mailing, sent in some money and got hammered with a huge number of requests for weeks for money from just about every charitable organization I can think of and for each year after. Didn't take kindly to my being "hit on" that way - never happened before that donation. Won't do that again.