It only took ten years, one near-miss on a house fire and 3,500 imported twinkling Christmas lights to pull off a victory this year...We won first place in our subdivision's lighting contest! I thought my work this year was pretty good, at least judged by my best supporters Spencer and Syd, yet there were some other homes in our neighborhood who I thought would take the awards this year. And hats off to our friends and neighbors down the street, the Frank's, for taking in second place. It was a good holiday on Buckeye Run! Here's the winner:
All this took about 8 hours on the day after Thanksgiving to put up. Trust me, there is a method to my madness, as I've planned, diagrammed and calculated amp ratings for weeks prior to all this.
Ironically, it only took 1 hour to take it all down and put away. Here's a photo of everything in the garage this Saturday:
You'll notice a couple of crates on the floor next to the table:
These are a portion the lights I bought during the sales right before Christmas when everything was heavily discounted. I'm thinking I'll have roughly another 1,000 lights next year. Now, you won't see me on any Extreme Christmas light shows on TLC or the Discovery Channel, but I'm going for win #2 next year. There, I admitted it. I have a problem and I'm okay with it.
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