Merry Christmas

P.S. I just took a drive over towards the Golf Courses. Seems white lights are still the norm and the L.E.D. revolution has yet to catch on!

P.P.S. An incredible full moon just came up over the Ocean. Putting all our lights to shame!

Can’t wait to see what the chef has cooked up this year.

He declared the kitchen off limits two days ago and he always comes up with a master piece of a holiday feast.

Right now we are lighting the front yard enjoying a bit of pfferneuse the chef just popped out with.

4 acres of front yard with lots of lights (40,000 plus) and multiple displays both static and dynamic. Some computer driven with music themes.

Takes a staff of 6 about 4 days after Turkey day to set it all up every year and also I have to reserve in advance a portable 25k generator semi-trailer to power it all.

I have been told you can see it from the space station.

Gonna have to try that recording on the surround sound on concert hall delay. Never done that before.

AM 1290 Savannah, Georgia is streaming the Mannheim Steamroller American Christmas program:

http://www.wtksam.com/cc-common/streaming_new/index.html

It’s a beautiful night here, just like in the photo. I’ve just turned on the outside lights, got at least 1,000 watts outside and another 1,000 watts blazing inside. I’m doing my best for Global Warming!

Right now Gene Autry is doing Here comes Santa Claus

WKTZ

4:29:36 pm - DAVID ROSE, XMAS WALTZ
4:32:53 pm - LIVING STRINGS, MEDLEY: WE 3 KINGS-O HOLY-
4:37:50 pm - AL CAIOLA, XMAS CARD
4:40:26 pm - STEVE & EYDIE, HAPPY HOLIDAY
4:42:46 pm - KELLY YOST, GESU BAMBINO
4:45:47 pm - LIVING VOICES, MEDLEY:JINGLE-RUDOLPH-WISH
4:50:02 pm - LIBERACE, MEDLEY: HERE COMES-IS COMIN
4:51:58 pm - JAMES LAST, HAPPY XMAS EVERYWHERE
4:54:50 pm - SINATRA, HARK THE HERALD ANGELS SING
4:57:12 pm - NAT KING COLE, FROSTY THE SNOWMAN/RUDOLPH
5:00:15 pm - ANDRE KOSTELANETZ, Christmas CHOPSTICKS
5:02:44 pm - GENE AUTRY, HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS

You would have to hear that thing played over my home theater system.

Champagne for all and crank up the volume and add a touch of delay to the speakers by putting it on concert hall profile.

It will literally make your spine tingle and you hair on your arms stand up.

Wow!

Here is a light show to it on YouTube. Excellent.

http://profile.imeem.com/YhYppOO/music/oYshROMn/mannheim_steamroller_silent_night/

If anyone wants to download it and put a link to it up here, please do.

It is one of those tracks that will just send chills down your spine.

According to new astronomic research, the fabled Christmas star from the Bible is increasingly supported by facts, not fiction.

Astronomer Rick Larson has studied the gospels and scientific models in depth for ten years and has concluded that the star

Can you tell I was getting a little dizzy on the dock as I got to the end? I put them up for a friend. The day I put them up we had more wave action and the dock was swaying slightly as I repeatedly bent over the railing to fasten the lights.

Merry Christmas all.

P.S. Maybe our defeatist friends would prefer “Happy Ramadan!”

But seriously, I was about to do up my own Xmas post but saw Mike’s and thought it was perfect for FA. Will keep it up top through Xmas.

Merry Christmas to Word, Mike, Scott, Chris and Rob and especially to all of our readers.

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To my Republican Friends:

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!