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7706 NW 25 ST. Margate, FL 33063
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100% of donations go to our church mercy ministry to feed poor

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June 24 , 2009 - Check out shots I took at the Marlins vs New York Yankees game on Saturday June 20, 2009. What a great game this was, a true pitcher's duel. The Marlins defeated the Yankees 2-1. Click Here to see the gallery.

 

 

January 10, 2009 - Thanks to all who donated food & cash during these tough economic times in the 2008 Christmas season!

For Christmas 2008 we collected 242 cans of food and $582 in cash for our church's Mercy Ministry outreach program.

The cash we collected is being used by our church to buy food, bus tickets, and life essentials for the local poor people who we minister to through the First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs/Margate.

I split the food collected between our church, and the Riverside Christian Fellowship Church in North Lauderdale, and Food For The Poor in Coconut Creek, FL.

If you are planning a large Christmas display at your house, it's a great way to use your talents of attracting crowds, to collect food to help those in need. Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven!

Our 2008 Christmas Song list which our lights dance to

Angels We Have Heard On High (Mannheim Steamroller)
Carol Of The Bells (David Foster)
Coca Cola Christmas Song “Holidays Are Coming”
Ding Dong Merrily On High (Jon Anderson of Yes)
Doxology (First Presbyterian Church of Margate)
I Believe in Father Christmas (Greg Lake from ELP)
Jingle Bells “Santa Clause” Soundtrack (Yello)
Jingle Jingle Jingle (Rudolph soundtrack)
Main Street Electrical Parade From Disney World
Miracle On 34th Street (Bruce Broughton)
NFL Fox Sports Theme
Nutrocker (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

Star Trekkin' Spoof Song (The Firm)
Star Trek Voyager Theme Song
The Holly & The Ivy (Jon Anderson of Yes)
The Most Wonderful Day of the Year (Rudolph Soundtrack)
Three Ships (Jon Anderson of Yes)
THX Trailer “Tex” (THX Limited)
Turn The World (Book Of Love)
Under The Sea (Disney’s The Little Mermaid)
We Three Kings (Book Of Love)

Winter Wonderland (Mannheim Steamroller)
Wish Liszt – Toy Shop Madness (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Wizards in Winter (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Wonderful Christmas Time (Paul McCartney & Wings)

We Switched to High Definition Videos for 2008!

In order to actually see these videos below in High Definition, you may have to view it on Vimeo's site instead of here, because they want money after so many embedded views on this site in high definition. While your video is playing, if the "HD is on/off " logo on right edge of the video does not say "On", then to see it in high definition, just click on that logo. A link pops up to the high definition version on Vimeo.

Wizards In Winter by Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO)


We Three Kings from "Book Of Love"


Emerson, Lake & Palmer's, rock classic "Nutrocker":

See more high def videos on our 2008 Christmas Display Videos Page


12/15/2008:
My How To Cook The Perfect Christmas or Thanksgiving Turkey is now online!

Last year at Christmas a miracle happened in my kitchen. After months of research and experimentation, I finally came up with the recipe for the most perfect tasting, moist tender meat turkey ever. Read my full how-to with complete pictorial and step by step recipe that still has my family talking about it, along with my gravy a year later. Click Here or on the photo to read it.


Dec 7, 2008: Our Display is on, about 90% completed
We now have about 57,000 lights up. By Sunday night we should have 60,000 lights on 128 channels, synchronized to music. Still adding more arches and Bellagio Fountain light poles.



11/28/2008: Our display is about 60% complete!

Here's a sneak peak of what we have so far. I still have not put out the arches, or finished my Bellagio fountain simulations.

11/25/2008: We started putting our 2008 Christmas lights out today!

Wow, it's that time again! Today we rented a cherry picker lift for the first time. It cost only $100 for a day. We decided this year to really wrap the palm trees all the way up, and to add light strings to the palm fronds and the neighbors are raving. Our latest eye opener this year is my 18 foot tall snowflake cascade between the 2 palm trees. I built the support structure out of PVC.


My 18 foot tall snowflake cascade fixture is on the driveway laid out before we installed it.


I'm in my rented cherry picker lift, wrapping net lights and strings on the palm trees.

Halloween 2008:

See the new beta testing of my simulated Bellagio fountains. Below you'll see the first of what will be about a dozen 10 foot tall PVC pipes wrapped with 1600 LED lights each, broken into 8 channels, each synchronized to music. This first fixture below was a 4" PVC pipe. See the Light-O-Rama controller at the left of the base of the Bellagio Fountain fixture.

Here's a video that shows off my simulated Bellagio Fountain fixture in action:


Halloween Lights & Simulated Bellagio Fountain Dance To Under The Sea Little Mermaid

Photo below is of my new countdown clocks, one for Halloween, one for Christmas:

See Media News coverage of our house from 2007, Click Here!

Our Florida Power & Light Electric Bill for December, 2007; Saved 400 KWh with 100% LED Christmas Lights

My final FPL electric bill for December 2007 was only $281, and only $42 more than November, 2007. Compare that to August, 2007, our hottest month, my bill was $351. In 2007 I almost doubled the number of lights, but now they are 100% LED, and for December I used only 2290 KWH, much less than prior years. LED Christmas lights really do save energy. We used 2902 KWH in 2006, and 3387 KWH for December 2005.

Our lights came down on January 6, 2008. We like to give folks who were out of town a chance to get back home and see our lights. Thanks to all who left food and cash donations for our church First Presbyterian Church of Margate/Coral Springs. We raised $512 in cash for our church mercy ministry, and over 95 items of food. All of that is used to directly help those in our community and congregation who could not otherwise buy food. We buy them food and give grocery store gift cards and disable alcohol and tobacco purchases.

When you get here to our house, tune your car radio to 100.9 MHz to hear music that our Christmas lights are sequenced to.How To Get Here: Click Here for directions
(Please bring food & cash donations for our church mercy ministries, 100% goes to this fund for food)

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