Archive for December, 2017

And the Christmas decorations are up again

Thursday, December 14th, 2017

We have our tradition of putting up our Christmas decorations and tree the weekend after the US holiday of Thanksgiving. It is usually a little late, Sunday or even Monday before it’s all finished.

Now that my sons are bigger, they are a lot of help and usually it’s the three of us putting up the outside lights and getting the inside decorations and tree out of storage. (yes, there are a lot of boxes of these things! ;-))

We usually have a few old decorations that no longer work and one or two new decorations. This year is no different. Our train is about to die, and we have added a very cool (I think, and the neighbours seem to agree) LED laser.

I have some solar powered lights and all the outside electric lights are connected to a timer now, so I can see the lights already on when I’m coming up the street on my way home, and I don’t have to go out in the cold late at night to turn them off before going to bed. It’s been the best part of our set up 😉

Here are a few pictures. You might notice the small differences from last year’s set up. I also included a short video clip so you can see the effect of the laser lights.