Christmas Decorations
 

This probably should be a WTF. Why? This picture was taken on Nov 18th, 5 days before Thanksgiving, in Bucks County, PA. C'mon people, slow down. :rolleyes:

Oh man the stores were floggin decorations BEFORE halloween up here. WTF? Desperate much?

Yup, came home last night to my neighbors newly installed decorations. Actually gave me a jolt. I felt like ripping them down! 'Course the kiddies are all excited.

One holiday at a time, please. Thank you very much.

My decorations are up.

Or, should I say, still up. :redface:

My wife and I have a novel approach to decorating for Christmas. We live in a neighborhood where people get down right competitive, there is even a judging and awards. most people opt for loads of those icicle lights, and traditional themed illuminated yard art of all shapes and sizes.

I decided rather then compete to make a different kind of statement. I put out about 120 full size snow goose hunting decoys that I no longer use much. They are all over the front yard with lights and we put little red bows on their necks.

I keep wondering if we will one day get a letter from the deed restriction people. Needless to say, I'm still waiting for one of the awards! ;)

Boscov's had Christmas decorations for sale before Labor Day.

I'd like to see a picture of that. :thumb:

Okay I can't compete with any of that
But I have had people making pilgrimages from.... well, other floors, to see my Christmas Tree.

Yes, that is supposed to be my In-Tray. But it has more important work to do this month, holding Secret Santa presents for a start.

I've got a framed picture of a reindeer on my cubicle with a blinking red LED behind the nose.

At home, I got 5 strings of LED Christmas lights that I hung vertically in my window, filling it with light. Damn, those things are bright.

I pulled a snowman mug out of the cupboard and set it on my kitchen counter. DONE!

I miss my old job at odd times. I had a co-worker that had a plastic reindeer that pooped M&M's when you pressed down on him. Tragically, he fell off his perch and is head was mounted on the cube wall all year round.

I wish I had a reindeer that pooped candy

Take your Pick
 

Of the poo-in critters.

http://www.prankplace.com/pooping_santa.htm

If you look around on the cellar, you'll find an xoBruce (I think) link to some very nice wooden versions. Or you can just google "reindeer poop candy" and find a cheap plastic version.

It was the OH Deer ones!! The face is exactly the same!!

There are a lot of disturbing stuff on there, though!!

Eventually I will find the closet where I stowed the pre-decorated tree with the cardinals on it. The birds, not the baseball team. I will put it on top of the television and plug it in for my mother's enjoyment.

At work I have decorated thusly: I switched out my Halloween Blair Witch Project coffee mug for my Charlie Brown Christmas mug. On one side it has Snoopy and Charlie Brown looking at Snoopy's doghouse decorated for the contest. The other (important) side has Charlie Brown sitting with Lucy and talking to her at her booth. You know, the one with the sign that says "Psychiatric Help, 5¢ ".

Last year, during the critical decorating week, I covered for the secretary and had full access to the filing cabinet where she stows stuff she doesn't want people to know she has. In there I found MY supply of Christmas Decorations for the office. I hummed carols and slapped a bunch of window clings onto the bullet proof glass. Unfortunately, for the first time, the Crisis Boss (I have a separate Commitment Boss who is my actual supervisor) remembered that Bugs Bunny, the Road Runner, Daffy Duck, and Porky Pig were aggregately called "Looney Tunes" and she made me take them down. I was allowed to keep my "Merry Christmoose," but only if I went out and got Chanukah and Kwanzaa decorations as well to be "inclusive." Apparently having a pagan do the Christmas decorating wasn't sufficiently inclusive.

I have the Poopin' Moose. I think I posted it in Dodads.

I had, but the link's bad.

this year for the first time we have a fake x-mas-tree! Plastic one! Because living together with the baby and 3 cats isnt great with a real one! There 's nothing that we unpacked yet, over here in Belgium its kinda traditional that we do it the weekend after Sinterklaas on the 6th... You have exceptions offcourse, the one who got a whole load to plug are already busy-busy!
The houses arent that big and are made invisible because of the light!
I also remind myself every year to take some pictures but i always forget to take my camera! If i do take it one time ill come show some Belgian outrageousness! :D

:lol2:

I finally got the tree assembled (we don't do real trees, it's just not worth the effort or money to me) and fully decorated--and with the variety of distractions around me it only took three days! Technically, however, it's not complete yet, because I need my husband to pre-drill a new hole to add a fifth stocking*, and I need to go buy a new star for the top of the tree because I finally got sick enough of our old angel thing to get rid of it this year.

*I could pre-drill it myself, but that would require me to know where my husband hid the drill bits the last time he used them. He does not precisely know either, at this point.

A Christmas decorator after my own heart.

You need an upside down, hanging from the ceiling, baby & cat proof, tree. :D

We had the reindeer.
I'll take some pics of our decorations soon. My son has some of his own, including his own little tree (that used to be mine for my office at work :sniff: ). It has lots of the Rankin-Bass figures on it.
We don't have it up this year, but I have a collection of old-world-glass and a black tree to put it on. It goes in my study. I have told my wife "not until he is sixteen".

:love:

Can I get that on a mug, Bruce?

I think those trees look awesome!

Is that Ridley Creek?

Hahaha Bruce! What a great idea! So , ill need some glue to hold them balls in!
Nice X-maslane ! I cant wait to start driving by those overdo houses!:p

No, not local. :headshake Front Range, CO.

And Oregon. :D

Next week we'll be going to see the Osborne Family Lights at Disney MGM - Hopefully our photos will turn out. The bits that I"ve seen of them (and I'm trying to not look too much, because I want to be surprised) are amazing.

I'm so glad I googled that before making a comment about Ozzy & Sharon... I konw the difference now :redface:

Heheh, that was my first thought too.....Ozzy and Sharon aren't quite 'Mickey Friendly'.

:)

Bad link, this should work.;)
http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wdw...ecialEventPage

Except that they are all white lights, a local school for exceptionally bad children does the completely covered tree thing.

Hehe, nice lights! U see who the sponsor is? Sylvania!!!
Anyone knows where the company is from? Thats right BelGiuM!! And what town? hèhè They wer made in MY toWn!! :D :D

Is part of their treatment/punishment putting up and taking down the lights? Gah!

Naw, they were made in China like everything else. :lol:

really??? :yeldead: :( :worried: But why isnt Sylvania written in Chinese than? :D

The decorations here will be for tomorrow or later, still a sick baby here, so no time to put the tree together...

Too large to post here but these are some great shots of Quebec's Capitol.



http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2...67529258QSIQFO

I think they make their maintenance/groundskeeping staff do that. If you make the patients/inmates do something on that order, even if it is "character building" it's peonage. Violates their civil rights or something.

A house i drove by today! It is still in progress ( only white lights), ladders standing there, cables ready but not plugged....
Its a known house this time a year! Sorry for the bad quality, its my cellphone and cardriving combined.... Ill drive by again in some time and post some new pics ...see how it evolved! ;) and colorful it got...

Some people get carried away with more is better. This guy did OK, without getting crazy. ;)

I was hoping to put some pics up here today...but the tree is not that nice...:redface: So my decoration is kinda "flauwtjes" (anyone got a dutch-english translation for that? :rolleyes: ) , like not enough..like the same colors allover,like booorring!! :neutral:
The tree is done, im gonna attach some light to my curtains tomorrow....
Maybe get a bit more X-mas mood in the place! It aint easy decorating with 2 beautiful vomitting women in the house! ;)

have a look anyway....

I got a whole roll of leftover evergreen garland from our church. Wrapped it all around the framing of our porch. Our house is a dump from the outside, so this doesn't really make it look nice, but it is a bit more festive now.

Festivities can be gooood sometimes! ;)

I'm not gonna promise anything, but I'll ferret around in my files and see if I can't dig up my photo of Hilary petting a reindeer at the zoo one christmas.

Wish I had a pic...but my ex sis-in-law lives in New Zealand, and comes home for Christmas each year a couple days before Christmas. So, a few years ago she and my ex dad-in-law (they are both still family to me, btw) started a tradition. They visit the tree places when she gets home and take the leftover branches, etc. Then they go home and she ties it together, creatively. It's always funny...and they have a great time. Good stuff.

There is a house in town whose residents hang their tree upside down, from the ceiling, for as many years as I've lived in this town. You can see it driving down Main St and it's a fun conversation piece for visitors.

It's too dark to take a good picture. I tried to get a picture of my cat snuggling up to the tinsel but he felt mocked and left.

hehe I found him in the tree garland.

Great picture! :)

reminds me of the cat scene in nat lampoon's christmas vacation.

Thanks! to both! lol

I just tweaked the adjustments. I wish you could post some of yours shawnee and I am waiting for that reindeer photo 3foots.

You say there are people who hang their tree upside down? Why do they do that?

Well, there's not a whole race of these people that I know of ;) but I guess they do it because it's different, and creates a fun thing to talk about. I like it.

Or, maybe there is a whole race of people who believe the luck runs out if you hang it the other way...not sure. :p

Maybe it's easier to hang ornaments.? ;)

This could be true.

Suppose: there is a Christmas tree on a treadmill, and the ornaments are...

never mind

Oregon Truck Parade :eek3:

I love houses done in good taste. :D

Bruce, is that your house? It's beautiful (the decorations too, but I love the house!)

Just wait for tomorrow night when I finally get home from school for break and I'll show you some lights.. there's a guy in my neighborhood that goes nuts. Every limb and every branch of probably 7 big trees in his yard are covered in lights. Not to mention his driveway is lined, the entire house and windows outlined, last year he spread some flashing ones out on the lawn to create a river of lights under the snow. He rents a cherry picker every year to put up more and more lights. He's very comfortably into the tens of thousands of lights.
The man is sick.

Nope, don't do any Christmas decorations, anymore. ;)