Christmas decoration

[Jack Frederick]

My wife gets the house. I get the tree in the yard. 10 grade stakes, 10’ pole in my case, 5mm Paracord, a bunch of small tie-wraps and several stings of lights. I’ve done this for probably 8 years or so. Being three dimensional all the lights show up from any angle. Goes up quickly too.

[Jack Frederick]

Well, after waiting twenty minutes for the third photo to download, I’ll try another post.

[Bill Dufour]

I never understood why Rockefeller center in NYC does not have a live tree full time in a permanent planter.?

[Dave Zellers]

I love outdoor decorations that you can see from inside.

[Jim Koepke]

Candy won't let me put the lights on our tree. She always wants more. She tends to get the light strings tangled or pulls them too tight.

She will let me hang a few ornaments.

Maybe I should put some lights on the shop for Christmas.

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[Mike Soaper]

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Under the Christmas tree 2020

The cardboard houses are probably from 1930's -1950's

[Mike Soaper]

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[Doug Garson]

Here's our outdoor tree, started as a sapling we picked up at a trade show about twenty years ago.
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[Dave Zellers]

The cardboard houses are probably from 1930's -1950's

Nice! Is there a train by any chance that runs on those tracks? With or without, very nice.

[Dave Zellers]

Here's our outdoor tree, started as a sapling we picked up at a trade show about twenty years ago.

Cool. Tree? Looks Cedarish.

[Keith Outten]

Great decorating job Mike, look like a lot of very hard/tedious work.

[Jim Becker]

I got fancy this year and put up a...wreath...on the front door. We live "in town" now, so that seemed neighborly.

Inside, there's stockings and a tree, but the latter is very difference from the 9' monster we used to put up at the old property. Very different.

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[Doug Garson]

Cool. Tree? Looks Cedarish.

Yep, Western Red Cedar and the ornaments are also WRC from old fence boards.

[Mike Soaper]

Nice! Is there a train by any chance that runs on those tracks? With or without, very nice.

Thanks Dave. Yep, there's a train, most of it is from my childhood. The engine is a lionel that will still puff smoke if I put some liquid smoke in the smokestack, the cars are made by marx. All in all it's held up pretty well considering how many kids have played with it.

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[Mike Soaper]

Great decorating job Mike, look like a lot of very hard/tedious work.

Thanks Keith!, The hardest part for me is trying be creative in laying out the track and buildings so that it isn't the same as any previous years.