Post #129878 by KuKuAhu on Wed, Dec 8, 2004 6:28 PM

On 2004-12-08 18:14, ZebraTiki wrote:
On the two weekends before Christmas, the police department has officers directing traffic at the two gateways into and out of the neighborhood, and a lot of people park across the street at the school and walk through. You can see more by walking through, and on these 'high competition' weekends, many of the homeowners give out candy canes, gingerbread cookies (usually home made!) & hot chocolate. It's like walking into another world.

Yeah, that's what I'm talkin' about. Very smart.

Why can't all communities be....well, communities?

But I digress...

Yeah, I succumbed to the icicle lights a few years back. What can I say, they were novel at the time. I still like them, but they do seem to be the "A Very Tasteful Yuppie Martha Stewart Christmas" light of choice.

Where I live (old urban neighborhood with a mix of outright rich and destitute poor and everything in between just blocks from each other) there is a war of taste going on.

It is the battle of "White lights, greenery, and red ribbon" vs. "Whatever, as long as they work put 'em up, the more the better, where's that 12 foot inflatable Homer Simpson santa we got last year at Walmarts?".

My semi-retro attempt at recreating the Xmas lighting of my childhood just blends in somewhere in the middle of it all.

Ahu