Forgot to put anything on the site this year about the facebook page! If you get a chance, check it out and say hello! Merry Christamas to everyone that’s come out this year.
https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Summerleaf-Christmas-Show/168811036484451
Amazing what publicity on a local news program will do for traffic volume!
The show’s been running fine for a few days now, traffic hasn’t been anything significant, but it rarely is the first week. One of our local TV stations has scheduled a visit for this weekend which I’m sure is going to have a significant impact on cars coming in and going out of the neighborhood!
Getting ready for tonight’s grand illumination.
Here’s a shot of the front door this season.
All lights are running, have to get the songs setup in the show as I haven’t been able to get all the songs from last year sequenced yet.
By far the one thing that is most difficult throughout the entire process is keeping up with the leaves.
Here’s a shot of the yard immediately after blowing the yard and bagging about 6 bags of leaves.
Not much point in trying to get them all as the oak tree starts dropping them again as quick as we can pick them up.
Will take another pic tomorrow before picking them up again.
This thing is incredibly bright!
Beautiful sunny day today. A little bit chilly, but OK once you’re moving around.
Got the lights on the bushes and wired up the bushes and the living room window lights. Wired up the Mega tree as well.
Unbelievable. Cindy takes off Wednesday through Friday and for the second year in a row it has rained the first two days. I still have plenty to do, but there’s only so much I have for her since we have checked all the outside lights already.
I did get a couple of songs sequenced and we got all the lights on the Mega tree. When we hoisted the lights up the pole however, it was swaying pretty badly. Took a trip to home depot and worked out a better way to hook up the guy wires.
What better way to spend a rainy day then making super strings. A super string is actually 4 light strings (red, green, blue and white) tied together with wire ties (wanna guess how many wire ties we use every year?).
Super strings (as opposed to Mega strings) are all LED bulbs. I chose not to use 4 colors early on because in my experience blue lights didn’t last long. LED’s on the other hand not only don’t have a fading problem, their colors are actually quite intense.
The Mega tree this year is made up of nearly 5000 LEDs and is controlled by 32 light-o-rama channels.
This is a shot of a super string mid-way in the construction process.
It was a rainy day today. Take the day off from decorating? Nope. Got the mini trees down, checked and wired. Made a wiring harness for the mini trees. Eliminated more than a dozen extension cords using spt1 wire and vampire plugs.
Here’s a shot of the trees from the top of the stairs.