Cincy Lights

Ever wonder why vacations always start and end the same way?? That is with loading up the car and heading off to your destination as quickly as possiable so you can get down to the "real" vacation.

That's how my recent treck to Owosso MI with my dad to a steam train festival started. Southern Pacific Daylight 4449 was to attend, along with many other train exibits that drew fans from MANY states around, so it was worth the trip.

It was a three hour trip to my folks house and another four hours to Owosso, so after the trip (and 14 hours of driving) I was totally bushed, only to get some rest and head to the inlaws six hours south in Crossville, TN.

I now have a few days to enjoy a somewhat slower life here in the South and recharge the ole batteries.

Ain't life grand?


-- Post From My iPhone

Installed new ap on the new iPhone... Now just to find something "interesting" in my life to write about on a regular basis. Ha! We'll see.

Ps. Don't forget the Light-O-Rama sale on all of your lighting animation goodies until 7/20.

-- Post From My iPhone

For those of you not used to Midwest summers, we often receive "heat waves" from warm air pushing up from the Gulf and it's pretty normal here to see 90+ degrees with 100% humidity. While not as oppressive as our friends to the South, we pay in the summer for the lack of white stuff in the winter.

For the first week or so of July we've saw highs in the 70's with overnight lows dipping into the 50's... enough to turn off the A/C for days, which is really unheard of in July, but was short lived as the humidity is supposed to return for the weekend.

Frosty wouldn't last a minute out there!!

Shannon

Wow. Is it really July?

As we celebrate our Independence Day, I'm already thinking about the light show and how we might improve upon it, from adding lights more lights to adding controllers we're trying to figure out what is in the budget and what is really feasible for Cincy Lights in 2009.

As 2008 was our first year going an animated Christmas display, I think we did really good, but soon realized it took us MUCH longer put up the lights and cords ran that we first thought. We mistakenly believed we could get the lights put up in one weekend.. HA.. HA.. that is all I have to say about that. It didn't help that we had a cold snap that weekend and we were working in 20-something degrees with wind that made it VERY uncomfortable.

This year I plan on getting started much earlier. I may get the neighbors talking if we start putting lights up right after Halloween... but who wants to be out in the cold trying to string lights. NOT me. I'm also going to try and locate a better video camera then the one I was using last year. The Sony we had borrowed just didn't do low light well at all and I was disappointed a little with the video as it didn't capture the full show, so I felt it lost something. It's all really early in the planning, plus we have to find an electrician that can work for peanuts, that might mean more to our ability to expand things then anything.

The one good thing about this past year as we were under the radar and I don't think we actually had too many visitors or at least those that we noticed, so I wasn't nervous about getting the neighbors ticked at us during Christmas. It was something I was concerned with as we live on a fairly small no-outlet road with neighbors that frequently get impatient at larger trucks making deliveries, etc. Would I have liked to see cars lined up to see the display? Sure.. I would have had a moment of.. THEY really, really like me... followed by sheer terror as I waited for the police to come shut us down.

Happy Fourth to Everyone!!
Shannon