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Post by captbob on Dec 4, 2017 19:27:35 GMT -5
It took me two days to put up my outside Christmas lights. Took another two days to put up the Christmas tree. Several hours each day. Now my back is killin' me.
My neighbors that stick a couple of those spotlights in their yard that make some spots of light move around on their house - need to be kicked in the nuts. I'm quite sure their backs feel just fine though...
They look out their window and see awesome Christmas lights. I look out and see their ghetto TV commercial "decorations".
humbug!
maybe next year I should decorate the neighbor's house instead of mine...
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 4, 2017 19:34:38 GMT -5
LOL! I never thought of it like that before. Maybe you should get a nice video of your lights and play it on a loop on your tv.
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Post by rockjunquie on Dec 4, 2017 19:38:38 GMT -5
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Post by Garage Rocker on Dec 4, 2017 20:02:52 GMT -5
I'm the lazy asshat with the laser lights on the house. That and a white trash inflatable Christmas scene. I'm tired of spending a whole day putting lights on the house and getting my hands shredded when wrapping the spruce trees out front. Eff it! My kids don't care, then I don't care. How's that for Christmas spirit? My back feels great, by the way. I spent the extra time cutting rocks.
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Post by MsAli on Dec 4, 2017 20:19:24 GMT -5
I'm the one that doesn't put anything up but Christmas decals on the window and maybe a wreath. Back is really great and my electric bill is not bad either. Just havnt been in the jolly spirit the past couple of years.
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Post by amygdule on Dec 4, 2017 21:23:09 GMT -5
Bah Humbug Fracking Holidays Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas I'll be glad when they go away.
Then I need to survive the New Year
Two Thousand Eighteen.
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Post by Sabre52 on Dec 4, 2017 22:20:20 GMT -5
Went with the wife by the nature center the other day. Guys house right across the street is plumb full of those ugly blow up plastic Santas, snowmen, raindeer, elves etc. Looked like some kiddies had taken a BB gun to them. Santa deflated and floppy as an old man's you know what, Rudolf on his knees with hangy down antlers, Frosty bent over backwards at the waste, elves prostrate next to melted looking candles. Holly jolly scene! Man I love the Christmas season *L*....Mel
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Post by MsAli on Dec 4, 2017 22:24:07 GMT -5
Went with the wife by the nature center the other day. Guys house right across the street is plumb full of those ugly blow up plastic Santas, snowmen, raindeer, elves etc. Looked like some kiddies had taken a BB gun to them. Santa deflated and floppy as an old man's you know what, Rudolf on his knees with hangy down antlers, Frosty bent over backwards at the waste, elves prostrate next to melted looking candles. Holly jolly scene! Man I love the Christmas season *L*....Mel You did a good job with putting that image in my head
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Dec 4, 2017 22:37:23 GMT -5
Went with the wife by the nature center the other day. Guys house right across the street is plumb full of those ugly blow up plastic Santas, snowmen, raindeer, elves etc. Looked like some kiddies had taken a BB gun to them. Santa deflated and floppy as an old man's you know what, Rudolf on his knees with hangy down antlers, Frosty bent over backwards at the waste, elves prostrate next to melted looking candles. Holly jolly scene! Man I love the Christmas season *L*....Mel That's what I tend to call "plastic hell" around the holidays. People cram as much ugly stuff on their front lawns as they possibly can. I always want to go to their front door and tell them less is more.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2017 22:44:43 GMT -5
Went with the wife by the nature center the other day. Guys house right across the street is plumb full of those ugly blow up plastic Santas, snowmen, raindeer, elves etc. Looked like some kiddies had taken a BB gun to them. Santa deflated and floppy as an old man's you know what, Rudolf on his knees with hangy down antlers, Frosty bent over backwards at the waste, elves prostrate next to melted looking candles. Holly jolly scene! Man I love the Christmas season *L*....Mel That's what I tend to call "plastic hell" around the holidays. People cram as much ugly stuff on their front lawns as they possibly can. I always want to go to their front door and tell them less is more. What? You don't appreciate a small power FM radio station playing an iPod full of Christmas tunes that drives hundreds of thousands of choreographed led lights?
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 4, 2017 22:51:25 GMT -5
I spent a couple of days putting up my lights too. I really don’t enjoy that job. Taking them down isn’t much fun either, it’s usually really cold. I had great weather for putting them up this year though. A few years ago I had one of my stupidest ideas ever. I bought some plastic fencing and used electrical tape to attach many strings of led lights in the shape of Santa. I bought a gizmo to cycle through three different outlets, turning one on at a time so that I could animate Santa juggling. It took way, way more hours than I imagined it would. I thought that led lights would last for a long time, but last year about a third of it stopped working and there was no way I was going to troubleshoot or replace any lights, so the whole thing went in the trash. It was about eight feet tall and actually looked really cool for a couple of years. My place: I can’t complain about my neighbor across the road.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Dec 4, 2017 22:56:23 GMT -5
What? You don't appreciate a small power FM radio station playing an iPod full of Christmas tunes that drives hundreds of thousands of choreographed led lights? Ummm, not so much. Don't mind those lights too much. None of the plastic candles, soldiers, etc. and blow up atrocities cluttering it up. The music would drive me nuts. I like tastefully done Christmas lights with no plastic, thank you.
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Post by Jugglerguy on Dec 4, 2017 22:58:00 GMT -5
That's what I tend to call "plastic hell" around the holidays. People cram as much ugly stuff on their front lawns as they possibly can. I always want to go to their front door and tell them less is more. What? You don't appreciate a small power FM radio station playing an iPod full of Christmas tunes that drives hundreds of thousands of choreographed led lights? I LOVE that! More is more!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Dec 4, 2017 22:58:24 GMT -5
Jugglerguy Now that's tastefully done and pretty. Kudos!
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Post by quartz on Dec 4, 2017 23:50:05 GMT -5
Here those light projectors would maybe last one night before "going to someone else' place". We are both really tired of having the season shoved down our throats, pretty much joined the bah-humbug feeling.
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Post by Pat on Dec 5, 2017 0:59:32 GMT -5
We went from a string of lights across the house, to just across the porch, to now with mini battery powered string light around our front door. And a wreath on the door. Perfect!
Don’t like the blow up figures or moving lights or music. Much prefer simple, quiet beauty.
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Post by captbob on Dec 5, 2017 8:47:14 GMT -5
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Post by rmf on Dec 5, 2017 9:19:24 GMT -5
captbob I like the meme will be sending this to a couple of hunter friends. That made my day! As for Christmas spirit ... Exactly 1 year ago today I was diagnosed with cancer, have had chemo then radiation then skin cancer followed by a heart attack (thanks chemo) and now I am recovering from hopefully my last surgery. they will be removing my IV lines Christmas day. In all of this what has encouraged me the most is Phillipians 2: 5-11. the first parts says, have the same attitude as Jesus who although he existed in the exact way that God exists did not consider equality with God a thing to be clung on to but emptied himself taking on the form of a servant (baby Jesus). Before the cruxifiction Jesus was humiliated beyond comprehension just to be born a human. the Christmas carol say "mild he laid his glory by, born that man no more may die" He took the humiliation for us not so we would not physically die but so we could be made spiritually alive. MERRY CHRISTMAS!
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Post by Fossilman on Dec 5, 2017 9:49:49 GMT -5
Amen rmf.......Wife sets the interior Christmas stuff up,I just haul it over from the shop...I do the outside stuff.. Use to decorate for five days,but with the electricity as high as it is on the west coast,I don't do it as often as I would like to,anymore.. In North Dakota we had 17 fir trees in our front yard going with the long driveway..I would light them all up and our deck and house...
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Post by Win on Dec 5, 2017 10:01:01 GMT -5
We keep it simple but do put up lights, the wife loves Christmas. We had a bad accident 5 years ago and she no longer does a tree, used to take two days, 4000 lights! We're fully decorated inside, just no tree. I don't understand how families with kids don't do anything, yet the old folk like us do!
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