@georgetakei We call it the "birthday season". It starts when the birthday person is ready for it to start... very lenient rules, but starts slow a couple weeks before, and then ends when the birthday person is done, and they are always tired of it before a month is up. So much can go wrong on any particular day or even week; work, illness, family obligations, so it works great. There are only two of us, and our birthdays are six months apart and not near holidays, so it is really perfect.