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| 12/22/24 About 7:20 a.m., Maple Leaf neighborhood |
To my southwest, this house toned down its excessive lighting from last year. While still confetti colored, the lights on the
bushes have been scaled back. I like them – not too much, not too sparse (not
that anyone does Christmas lights too sparsely). Their car in the driveway
reflects some of their lights (or perhaps their neighbors’). Like last
year, they have at least two trees.
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| Happy holidays from Weather Bunny, and may all your Christmas sweaters be ugly! |
I've done less and less decorating over the years - it's just me and since the pandemic, no one drops by anymore, everyone just want to meet somewhere to "do coffee" so I don't always see the point of putting out decorations just for me. But this year I got REALLY lazy. I buy a couple of yearly limited edition ornaments, almost out of habit and the ones that came this year are all I put out! I live in a duplex townhouse and one year I had retired neighbors on the other side who had sold their house and moved into town. They were used to putting up lots of decorations but not much you can do to the front of our place. Still, they went for lights over the garage door and a few other decorations. I praised their efforts and they asked if I'd like the lights continued over my garage door. GO FOR IT! I even found a wreath I could hang between our garages. It was the nicest thing anyone had done for me in a long time. Unfortunately they've moved on and not many people have put up decorations in my neighborhood this year, but people come and go quite a bit along this street of rentals. Next year could be totally different. I love your decorating without having to break a sweat - my kind of decorating anymore. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThat all sounds great and festive! My neighbors across the street are not as lucky as I am ... no one on my side of the street puts up lights, so they don't have anything to enjoy looking across at us!
DeleteI don't decorate the exterior of our place, except for a wreath. Our unit faces trees so we don't see other decorative lights except when we bring the car into the garage on the other side of the building. BUT I do have my tree up and other decorations around the living room. I turn on the lights after I'm done exercising in the morning and they pretty much stay on until we are going to bed.
ReplyDeleteWhen we used to put up a tree, I did enjoy the lights on it, especially on these long-dark mornings. If I had an easy way to just toss some lights around the windows, I would! ;-)
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