Posted by Shannon | Posted in | Posted on Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Fun on Halloween:
This year we spent the evening giving out candy to the kids and it was great. In years past we hadn't been able to take in Halloween as we either lived in a secure building or on a small street where not too many kids live and the one year I sat out waiting on kids, nobody came near our house. This year we stopped by a friends house and helped shell out nearly twelve bags of candy!
As I packed away all of the Halloween decorations this past weekend, I couldn't help noticed how early it's getting dark these days. Thanks to the end of DST, it's nearly dark when I get home from work, so we enter the long nights of winter.
Christmas is coming:
I heard my first Christmas songs on the radio this past week. Needless to say we were shocked in the first week of November that Frosty the Snowman greeted us at dinner. Of course all of the stores have the Christmas Trees and tinsel on the shelves. I think they go right from Halloween to Christmas these days-- so much for celebrating the grand old bird on the Thanksgiving Day!
I would have wanted to to wait, but our Christmas Light guy arrived today and installed the lights on the eaves and soffits-- all the higher stuff that we can't bring ourselves to climb the ladder to do. The guy who does our lights wanted to come our early so that he could be sure to have all of his clients lights installed by Thanksgiving, otherwise I would have been apt to wait a few weeks before putting the lights up. We're shooting for December 1st to have the display up and running, with a day or so wiggle room to work out any bugs as this is our first year doing animation, so getting the larger stuff installed now allows me concentrait on the other things that need to be done. We've also developed a good relationship with our Christmas Light guy and am really glad we found him!
We also ran a full scale test of all the controllers and sequences this weeknend by setting up the controllers in the living room and hooking up a set of lights to each channel and running through the songs. OK, I admit, sitting by the fire and listening to a few Christmas songs wasn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.
1.20.09
I think many americans are looking forward to the date above. With the stock market on a daily roller coaster ride and retirements funds taking a beating, not to mention the mortgage crunch, I think we all could use something to look forward to and think positively about. Our new President-Elect will provide is just what this country needs. hope and optimism that there are brighter days ahead.
This year we spent the evening giving out candy to the kids and it was great. In years past we hadn't been able to take in Halloween as we either lived in a secure building or on a small street where not too many kids live and the one year I sat out waiting on kids, nobody came near our house. This year we stopped by a friends house and helped shell out nearly twelve bags of candy!
As I packed away all of the Halloween decorations this past weekend, I couldn't help noticed how early it's getting dark these days. Thanks to the end of DST, it's nearly dark when I get home from work, so we enter the long nights of winter.
Christmas is coming:
I heard my first Christmas songs on the radio this past week. Needless to say we were shocked in the first week of November that Frosty the Snowman greeted us at dinner. Of course all of the stores have the Christmas Trees and tinsel on the shelves. I think they go right from Halloween to Christmas these days-- so much for celebrating the grand old bird on the Thanksgiving Day!
I would have wanted to to wait, but our Christmas Light guy arrived today and installed the lights on the eaves and soffits-- all the higher stuff that we can't bring ourselves to climb the ladder to do. The guy who does our lights wanted to come our early so that he could be sure to have all of his clients lights installed by Thanksgiving, otherwise I would have been apt to wait a few weeks before putting the lights up. We're shooting for December 1st to have the display up and running, with a day or so wiggle room to work out any bugs as this is our first year doing animation, so getting the larger stuff installed now allows me concentrait on the other things that need to be done. We've also developed a good relationship with our Christmas Light guy and am really glad we found him!
We also ran a full scale test of all the controllers and sequences this weeknend by setting up the controllers in the living room and hooking up a set of lights to each channel and running through the songs. OK, I admit, sitting by the fire and listening to a few Christmas songs wasn't a bad way to spend an afternoon.
1.20.09
I think many americans are looking forward to the date above. With the stock market on a daily roller coaster ride and retirements funds taking a beating, not to mention the mortgage crunch, I think we all could use something to look forward to and think positively about. Our new President-Elect will provide is just what this country needs. hope and optimism that there are brighter days ahead.
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