Monday, December 14, 2015

Christmas lights.


Christmas Lights.  Isn’t it interesting that humans have gone from candles on the tree– to full out musical light shows?   Here’s a sampling of a home in the US.  It is CRAZY what some humans will do.

And then we have some photos from around the world:

We have our own amazing light displays here in Halifax, Nova Scotia too.  There are the homes of the “duelling doctors,” the Giacomantonio brothers – who try to outdo each other each year.  Now they don’t do the whole musical choreography thing – but the houses are AMAZING.  And they ask that people who stop by, give a donation to the Food Bank.  Here is one of their homes that was featured in the Halifax paper:

As for lights at our house….the outdoor light display ended the year my human painstakingly spent hours putting lights in bushes, lights in trees, lights along the roof- while she was freezing her fingers…only to plug in the numerous extension cords and find out that the plug wasn’t working.  And she didn’t know what to do.  Everything came down.  It was about a month later that she had an electrician in for another reason and she found that she had tripped the circuit – and all she needed to do was reset it.  Since then we have been limited to candle lights in the windows – and of course, the lights on the trees indoors.  Yesterday she DID put a tree that she cut in the woods in a big metal can next to the front door outside.  She put a few lights on the tree – which are battery operated.    THAT'S a brilliant idea - I'm sure those lights will last long. And you KNOW that it is only a matter of time before one of us pees on it.   We have a little contest going to see who will be first.

I looked on-line to see if I could find a lighted dog display to go in the yard.  I mean they have lighted deer.  And moose.  So why not a dog?  I did find a 9 ft tall inflatable husky dog that lights up.  Wonder how fast he would DEFLATE if we got ahold of him?  And I found a lighted dachshund.  But no PON or Berner. So no dogs lights for us.

Anyway, the Christmas preparations continue.  Thanks to those of you who supported my goat idea.  It is at the TOP of my Santa list.

After World Peace, of course.

©  Linda Wozniak

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