Yes, yes it is.
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Well… As I was driving back home yesterday, I started noticing quite a few houses with their XMas lights already on… so may be it’s ok! 
Hubitat turns mine on after the XMas parade every year (mostly permanent lights + a few add-ons that take a few hours to put-up, but are on Z-Wave plugs).
I miss the old days when the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade seemed to be the official start of the Christmas season. Before that, you did not see much in the way of Christmas lights or displays in the stores.
The more the stores and advertisers push Christmas shopping, the more I turn it off. Christmas today has very little to do with the Christ and more to do with corporate profits.
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Permanent is DEFINITELY the way to go!!!!
Then, you can be THAT neighbor who can do red, white & blue during 4th of July or other patriotic occurrences, purple & orange for Halloween, red & white for Valentine's Day, etc.
I also have them on all white every other day of the year until 10pm and then leave a few pucks on around garage, front door, and ground-level windows on front of house for rest of night. Then there are the Govee Outdoor Ground Lights 2 and Outdoor Pathway Lights to add to fun only until 10PM. The Govee Outdoor Wall Lights are on my Christmas List to flank my garage door. Like I said, I am THAT guy in the neighborhood.
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Eventually putting in programmable LED's. I actually have almost everything I need but have had no time.
I grew up in Detroit by 7 and the Lodge in the 50's and 60's and loved going to Cobo Hall for the car shows. There were a bunch of car dealerships by my house and we used to try to sneak a peek at the new cars that would all be under wraps in the early Fall before their official release. I got to work the concessions in the stands at a drag strip one summer and it was a great job. Since no one is buying anything during the actual race I could turn and watch them - for that 6-10 seconds - and then go back to selling. It was like getting paid to go to the drag strip.
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Definitely an appropriate tire cover.
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How can we arrange you coming over and doing the perm-light install for me?
I'm still doing seasonal and the house is actually the easy part - single-story ranch w/permanently mounted hooks under the eaves that I'm tall enough to reach w/out ladder. that takes maybe 30m.
However, the yard has gotten way too complicated - my fault, I keep adding stuff to it, and now takes me hours to set up. My wife tells me to simplify but when it is all set up it gives me a nice "Ooooo...I did that cool thing..." feeling. 
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Almost forgot - Happy Bolognese Day!! * Mise en place when it was in progress a couple hours ago...in slow-cooker now turning into the most insane wonderfulness.
If you can get here by 6:30pm tonight we'll have a place at the table for you.
- Declared by myself.
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Not just lights but folks already have their Christmas tree up in my neighborhood.
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Geez...that is a bit much, even for "Christmas-man" me. A little respect for Thanksgiving, puhleeze.
Funny you should ask, when I installed the first time (Yes 1st time) while wife was outta town, they looked like this:
My wife came home and first comment was "That looks great, when are you going to do the 2nd floor?" As someone who HATES heights, I was crushed. However, with a harness, I braved that little mini roof on second floor to reinstall lights. I am short but was still able to reach the 2nd floor eave. A 100ft string fit almost perfectly & I didn't have to cut anything.
Now they look like this on a normal night!
This includes the Ground Lights Ver 2 in front of the flower bed.
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LOL...wives from the same gene pool. Always "That's nice, now you can do/add/extend X."
Also hate heights, so we have no lights on the peak of the roof over our garage, and never will. Wife agrees I'm too clumsy, so got a pass on that one.
Your lights look great...
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Being jewish solves the issue. I just have 2 strings of permanent govee yard lights and change usong the garden hue app i wrote based on the season or holiday.
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But don't you have to have a 6' menorah on top of the peak of your place? Or at least a big paper mache matzo ball? One of my buddies who is jewish had one he made, and he hung it (until his wife made him take it down for general tackyness), in his front entry. Reall cool/funny, even if it was only about 2' across. 
What would be really cool would be a string of lights in the shape of a dreidel and in the middle you would randomize it to go between Nun (you get none), Hay (you get half), Gimel (gimme all) and Shin (put one in).
Nun
Hay
Gimel
Shin
And Hanukkah is super late this year, starting on December 26, so we get those sweet, sweet after Xmas sales!
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Somebody must have put that into play, sounds like a fun idea.
LOL...timing is everything.
Hehe… I was THAT guy too, and now there are 3 of us! Hehe…
That looks great!
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Yes when kids were young i put a 20' jewish star in blue and white up on the side of the house. Now too old for that sh**
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