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[emolas]

I purposefully left mine on all year. The evergreen's lights were on every night. Even the prancing reindeer got to boogie sometimes in the summer.

So, did I win?

I came up with the great idea to just leave them up all year once. I was living in military housing at the time and apparently somebody complained because I got a warning letter saying that I had to take them down. It really annoys me when people feel a need to complain about things that don't concern them and it was only a week before independence day so, rather than take them down, I laboriously replaced every bulb with alternating red/white/blue bulbs then replied to the letter saying that my Christmas lights were taken down and my 4th of July lights replaced them.

Yesterday I went deer hunting all day - all I saw was squirrels and a couple of grouse (and a mob of woodpeckers sounding like teletype machines!).

Today I was a good family guy and did all the outside decorating: one of those plastic light-up Nativity sets with figures about 20" tall (I built a wooden "stable" thingy to place them in. With spruce boughs and little white lights on top it looks pretty cool). Also, little white lights on the bushes (non-blinking! I hate the blinkers!!).

The best part was my Dad gave me all of his old fashioned strings of lights with the large-sized bulbs (some of them dating back to the `50's). With these around the windows, we now have a "retro" look as well.

The tree won't go up for a couple of weeks yet....

One of my favourite displays I have seen is a lighted lawn deer gutted and hanging from a tree.