Merry Christmas John, from your friends in Georgia!!!
Rich
· 11 months ago
I used to live across the street, pre-Santa.
John Aravosis
· 11 months ago
Okay that's funny
ProgressiveTroll
· 11 months ago
Mr. Grinch and Mr. Claus are the two best decorations ever John. I'm jealous! My tree is pretty nice, everyone that comes over is awed by it, so I guess I have nothing to be jealous about.
Keith_in_Southwest_France
· 11 months ago
In this part of France you see the Santa that you show climbing up the ladder with a noose around his neck hanging from trees and barn door openings. Since my partner does Pere Noel as a hobby for the various communes in the area, this upsets him every time he sees one displayed like this.
lucky hussein
· 11 months ago
the grinch is cool, anyone who doesn't like it is, well.... a grinch. and that house in baltimore does NOT have too many lights - you can't have too many - what the hell, it's pretty cool, once a year. i'm sure all the kids love it.
Older_Wiser
· 11 months ago
Those are great, John, even though I'm more restrained here in NC. : )
Getting ready to decorate the inside of the house, although I enjoy the many outside lights of neighbors who can afford the electric bill. There's always a house in any neighborhood which outdoes all the others, of course. Fun!
Sugapea
· 11 months ago
I love it, John! Just imagine how many kids you bring joy to. How big is the Santa?
John Aravosis
· 11 months ago
The hanging Santa is like 4 feet, maybe 4.5
UncleGlenny
· 11 months ago
Well, no wonder they're upset! The Grinch doesn't appear to be wearing pants!
p.s. My dog, a shepherd-colie mix, has fur tufts at the end of her toes and gets called Grinch Feet.
HeartlandLiberal
· 11 months ago
John, you would be right at home in little French Lick, Indiana, down in the southwestern part of the state. We were down there last year the week before Christmas for a few days to blow a few bucks at the new Casinos (the French Lick Hotel and the round Baden hotel, which was restored a few years ago, and is considered a national architectural landmark).
We drove around the neighborhoods of small lower and middle income homes that hang on the step hill sides to the south of the town, which is nestled in a valley. You have not seen 'yard art' till you have been there for Christmas. Almost every yard had not one, but many figures, many of them older plastic free-standing Christmas figures, but the in thing last year was apparently the inflatable stuff like your Grinch. There was even a multi-part inflatable creche in one front yard, with rotating parts. More than one yard was not satisfied to have just a few items, and the ENTIRE YARD, front to back, street to house, side to side, was filled with Christmas decorations of the gaudiest and kitchiest imaginable sort. You could not step in any direction with stomping either the baby Jesus or a lamb, or some other critter, real or imagined.
John, given your Grinch, you would be right at home visiting French Lick, Indiana around this time of year.
P.S, for those who follow basketball, think Larry Bird, native of French Lick. The town was a hotbed of gambling and was frequented by the famous and the infamous, from politicians to mobsters, in the first couple of decades of the last century, but is now a sleepy little place revived to some extent over the past few years by the establishment of legal casino gambling. I suspect the current financial collapse is going to hit them hard. We are trying to prepare for retirement, and have blown about $20K in the past six months getting the house and all the appliances and the geothermal in new order, so blowing a little at a casino for Christmas this year is not an option.
Here is the Christmas tree at the West Baden hotel last year.
When I think French Lick, I think of nudist colony... down that way somewhere... I'm a Hoosier, just in the non-hillbilly part of the state.
Richard in Royal Oak
· 11 months ago
I've always wanted to do a display like this:
Sleigh on the roof, reindeer looking down over the edge of the roof, one red mitten hanging from the gutter, Santa sprawled out face down on the ground in the bushes.
I figure my neighbors would burn my house down!
Indigo
· 11 months ago
The French cleverly disguise the hillybilly element in their culture by speaking French.
sisterfaith
· 11 months ago
Go for it John! I'm looking forward to your inaugural surprise!!
gumboman
· 11 months ago
Now I know its the Christmas season, John has the Grinch up!
kh7463
· 11 months ago
There is a house near me where the front of the house (thankfully a ranch style) is totally covered in white lights, along with a few trees. I keep meaning to take a picture of it.
sdr
· 11 months ago
The bathhouse here in San Diego always has that same Grinch up on the roof over looking the entrance every holiday season.
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Merry Christmas John, from your friends in Georgia!!!
Getting ready to decorate the inside of the house, although I enjoy the many outside lights of neighbors who can afford the electric bill. There's always a house in any neighborhood which outdoes all the others, of course. Fun!
Just imagine how many kids you bring joy to.
How big is the Santa?
p.s. My dog, a shepherd-colie mix, has fur tufts at the end of her toes and gets called Grinch Feet.
We drove around the neighborhoods of small lower and middle income homes that hang on the step hill sides to the south of the town, which is nestled in a valley. You have not seen 'yard art' till you have been there for Christmas. Almost every yard had not one, but many figures, many of them older plastic free-standing Christmas figures, but the in thing last year was apparently the inflatable stuff like your Grinch. There was even a multi-part inflatable creche in one front yard, with rotating parts. More than one yard was not satisfied to have just a few items, and the ENTIRE YARD, front to back, street to house, side to side, was filled with Christmas decorations of the gaudiest and kitchiest imaginable sort. You could not step in any direction with stomping either the baby Jesus or a lamb, or some other critter, real or imagined.
John, given your Grinch, you would be right at home visiting French Lick, Indiana around this time of year.
P.S, for those who follow basketball, think Larry Bird, native of French Lick. The town was a hotbed of gambling and was frequented by the famous and the infamous, from politicians to mobsters, in the first couple of decades of the last century, but is now a sleepy little place revived to some extent over the past few years by the establishment of legal casino gambling. I suspect the current financial collapse is going to hit them hard. We are trying to prepare for retirement, and have blown about $20K in the past six months getting the house and all the appliances and the geothermal in new order, so blowing a little at a casino for Christmas this year is not an option.
Here is the Christmas tree at the West Baden hotel last year.
West Baden Hotel Christmas Tree
Sleigh on the roof, reindeer looking down over the edge of the roof, one red mitten hanging from the gutter, Santa sprawled out face down on the ground in the bushes.
I figure my neighbors would burn my house down!