UNTIL Lights Go On for 2008!
Once upon a time my wife asked me to decorate the house for Christmas.......
Now, ask any 5 year old to describe the house...
We're the house with a Bazillion lights.
That's how it all started. In 1996 we moved into our house in Livonia, Michigan, and we decided to decorate it with lights and decorations. For the first few years it was kept simple trying different colors and decorations. Purple lights were even used one year. Unfortunately they looked pink when powered up. Different areas of the house were decorated each year, gradually adding each year.
In 2004 new heights were reached when lights to the maple tree in the easement. The tree is 63'-64'tall. Twelve window hung flat snowflake decorations were put randomly throughout the tree. The highest being about 50' off the ground. The bottom 12 feet branches and trunk were wrapped with white lights. In 2004 18,000 lights and a 13' tall blowup Santa Clause to go with the 8' high Frosty the Snowman was added.
For 2005 7,000 more lights were lit up. We added the lights to the front of the house and the bushes. In 2005 the front of the garage including the basketball net got some lights. The truck almost got wrapped in lights as well, but it got spared at the last minute. The house now had a "Grizwald/Lampoon" quanity of lights. Channel 4 news stopped by to take some video of the house for the 11:00 news.
The big plunge was taken in 2006. Control was used. 64 Channels of Light O Rama control. Four blowmolds and two light up animated deer from garage sales were also added. Channel 4 News showed up again and shot video for about 45 minutes which ended up being a 15 second spot. For 2007 We Had 33,600 lights(more than Clark Grizwald), A snowball fight animation with our neighbor over the street, strobe lights, a new flying Santa mechanism, a leaping fence, and 32 more channels of Light O Rama. For 2008 We plan/hope to have near 50,000 lights in our little display, 96 more channels of Light O Rama. This will bring our total to 192 chanels of control. Also we will be attempting to add some more cool effects. Like a snowman jumping on a trampoline. A shooting star landing at the base of the megatree is planned. The megatree is going to be 4 colors for 2008. All the bushes will be red, green and white this year. There will be some more minitrees this year and will be sequenced to the music. My only dissappiontment to everyone may be less songs do to the fact that it is going to take much longer to program 192 channels. I will be sure to pick out the best ones or do better ones.
