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January 1, 2013: Happy New Year everyone! Glad we survived the whole Mayan end of the world thing, I was really worried for a while. This Friday night January 4, 2013 is the last night of our display, so if you were out of town and missed it, you still have time to come by and visit us. Tell your friends to come for one last glimpse before it comes down Saturday morning. Bring food donations!

December 28, 2012 7PM: Come on by, our light display is still up and will be up until Friday January 4. We tear it all down on Saturday Jan 5.

December 26, 2012 7PM: It rained earlier this evening but our lights are on, so stop by, we will have them on until about 11 PM tonight. Our display will be up until Friday January 5. Not a telescope night!

December 25, 2012 7PM: Merry Christmas Everyone! We have the big telescope out again tonight, again looking at Jupiter and the moon they are almost on top of each other on Christmas night, trying to form the Star of Bethlehem! It's a bit hazy but you can see the stripes! It's getting clearer as the night goes on. So stop by, the scope will be out until 10 PM. The lights will stay on until about 11:30.

2012 Christmas Song list which our lights dance to:

All I Want For Christmas[Extra Festive] (Mariah Carey)
Angels We Have Heard On High (Mannheim Steamroller)
A Star To Follow (Trans-Siberian Orchestra)
Carol Of The Bells (David Foster)
Children Go Where I Send Thee (Crimson River Quartet)
Coca Cola Christmas Song “Holidays Are Coming”
Ding Dong Merrily On High (Jon Anderson of Yes)
Doxology (First Presbyterian Church of Margate)
Hallelujah Chorus (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)
Rudolph DVD Menu Title Theme
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)

December 23 , 2012 7PM: We have the big telescope out again tonight, looking at Jupiter and the moon, it's a clear beautiful night, stop by, we'll be out until 9PM with it, then we have to get it back into the garage before the dewpoint sets in.

December 19 , 2012: We had the big telescope out in front of our huge light display here at home. The city of Margate dropped by to judge our lights at 7 PM on a Fire engine and Santa got off to view Jipter through our telescope.

December 14 , 2012:

Our new Big Ben lives! Today we added the backlit clock feature to our 10 foor tall Big Ben replica, our new custom designed 8 channel lighting fixture new for 2012 on our display. The clock is backlit vinyl and sycnronizes to the music as one of the 8 channels of light on Big Ben.

My Recipe: How To Cook The
Perfect Christmas or Thanksgiving Turkey

I finally came up with the recipe for the most perfect tasting, moist tender meat turkey ever. Read my 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.

December 3 , 2012:

Our new Big Ben structure should be ready this week! Take a look at this photo below showing the skeleton structure for our Big Ben fixture that we are adding to our Chriustmas display this year. I got the inspiration while watching the Summer Olympics in London this past summer. It shoudl be operational by Saturday.

It will stand about 11 feet tall, and have 8 channels of light and be synchronized to the music.

From 2011: New item on our display: After Christmas I went to Sam's Club and I bought the holy family, Jesus was marked down from $199 to $99! The 3 kings were marked down from $229 to $149.

Below is a shot from our 2010 display, 30 feet in the air on a rented cherry picker a few houses away.

See My photos from STS-133 and others, along with my tips and camera settings on my article "How to take pictures of a NASA Space Shuttle Launch"

Read my tutorial How to view and photograph a NASA Space Shuttle Launch that I created to show you how to photograph a NASA Space Shuttle launch in the day time, as well as how to photograph the Space Shuttle launch at night. There's lots of proven high resolution photos I have shot to help inspire you, with full exposure details. I also included tips and strategies for the best locations to view a Space Shuttle Launch, and using tour busses as an alternate way of getting into Kennedy Space Center.

January 8, 2011 See video of our Megatree crashing to the ground:
Our Megatree is designed to collapse to half height by unscrewing 4 coupler nuts in the metal pipe core of the mega tree, and lowering it from above using a rented cherry picker.
The eyebolt screwed into the top of the magatree gave way, and stripped out of the wood material. This caused the upper part of the megatree to come crashing down, since the cherry picker is no longer suspending it, so that we would have been able to gently lower it. Damage appears to be minimal: