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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!