The Sleigh is packed and the weather (at least here) is clear enough for a flight tonight.
The flamingos and ducks have been providing my family holiday grins for about 15 years now. My wife and I blended our two families (we each had a child from our previous marriage) about 15 years ago. Since then I have always tried to put a smile on a step-daughters face. Since she was a big flamingo fan, I decided to work them into a holiday display (the ducks showed up later). This year when setting up the holiday decorations, one of the flamingos failed to light up. So a couple of days ago I sat down to find the bad bulb and get the string running. After several hours and finding not one but several bad bulbs, I threw in the towel and declared the string dead. I was unable to find a suitable incandescent string so I thought, let's upgrade to LED. Well, with the late start on the replacement project I could not find a simple LED string, so I decided to try some of those 'icicle' strings. It took another couple of hours to 'destring' the flamingos and 'restring' them with the new lights.
Today I got the thumbs up from our daughter (who flew in last night) and the two Grandchildren (who stopped by tonight for an early Christmas eve meal - repeating our long running traditions of an Indian Curry meal).
So, to all my friends and fellow members of the element14 community.....
Merry Christmas to all and a Happy New Years!
Gene
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