Halfway there and lots to do!

All of the substructures have been put up and most of the lights are in their places. The inflatables are inflated and have stopped blowing their fuses. A few more icicles need to be put on the side of the house. Next will be the major AC lines and the data communication system with the audio system to be installed after that. Some additional programming will be needed to accommodate the new SSRs out in the yard but it will be a matter of copy and paste for that. Best news is that we have entered the Willamina Home Illumination Contest! First place is $50, second place is $35 and third place is $15. We are thrifty shoppers so any prizes we get will be spent on as much food as we can to be donated to the Food bank. I think we will finish in the top 3 at least (cross your fingers!). Also, there are still a few more items to be built or rebuilt so those things will have to be squeezed in there somewhere. All in all, we are on track to finish and test before LIGHTS ON!

Here we go again!

Its that time of the year again! Time to get going on setting up the new and improved display! Some of the old making a reappearance and some new stuff makes its debut. With the addition of new controllers, there will be more stuff to see along the side yard and in front of the shop. A few unusual problems popped including a melted data cable (total mystery how that happened) and a motherboard on Blitzen the Christmas Computer went kablooey! but all problems are solved until the next ones. LOL. More canned food has been collected before any lights were put up than was collected last year. Weird. Most of the substructures for the display have been bought out of storage and put in the yard. A new spot roughly 1/6 the space in the shop has be allocated to the new light storage and repair area. Shelves, part boxes and table space are now available for use in maintaining and storage of the light elements. The music program has been shortened by not using Intros. Although the controllers will be in roughly the same locations as last year, some of the jobs they did will be controlling other light elements. Also the start of the shows will be on December 10th due to costs for electricity. Nightly viewing will still be 6 Pm til 10 PM. Still not sure of the total number of lights but we are hoping to top last year because some the light we will be using are LED lights. As the price of lights drops, we will replace our strings with LEDs. Due to the number of reindeer collected this year, there will be a reindeer herd by the shop. Look for the sad reindeer, he is blue. Rofl.