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Please bring Canned Foods & Cash Donations!
100% goes to our church mercy ministry to feed poor
DO NOT BLOCK DRIVEWAYS EVEN FOR A SECOND

Friday January 6, 2012 was last night of our display for 2011 season!

We had Telescope Night last night!
December 27, 2011 1:07 PM EST

Our telescope was out last night! We had our giant Meade telescope out showing Jupiter, tonight is looking pretty cloudy with some chance of rain:

New item on our display: Today I went to Sam's Club and I bought the holy family, Jesus was marked down from $199 to $99! The 3 kings is now marked down from $229 to $149. But alas, even that good price I cannot afford it, the stock market was very brutal to me this year, and with staggering losses, and 2 rental units that my Section 8 renters caused $4500 in damages in each, I just could not do it this year. I am completely at the end of my cash flow. So it's just a lonely Holy family, no kings, no fanfare:

Our Christmas Display will be shown on Travel Channel Christmas Eve
December 20, 2011 7:33 PM EST

We will be featured on Travel Channel on Dec 24 at 8PM EST. I just set my DVR! The show is called Christmas Crazy. It's about houses that go over the top with Christmas Lights. It will also air on Christmas Day 3 PM and 7PM. Our House was On ABC News Good Morning America.

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.

 

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

Space shuttle with flame after clearing the top of the steam cloudSee 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.

Our photos and videos for 2010 are now uploaded!
Click Here to see 2010 Photos of our Christmas lights display
Click Here to see 2010 Videos of our Christmas display.

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:

December 23, 2010
Here's some neat shots that I took just as the sun was setting and dusk was providing a nice glow in the wetern sky. This is the best time to take pictures of your display. Click photoos to supersize them:

2010 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)
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)
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)

2009 Season highlights:

  • We won PlanetChristmas.com Worldwide Decorating Contest computerized displays category
  • 12/16/2009: We won City of Margate 2009 Holiday Decorating Contest!
  • Our display was shown on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on episode 159, Dec. 14
  • Our new custom designed and built giant 6 foot tall Ferris Wheel of lights with 2280 LEDs!
  • M&M's Christmas inflatable on our roof over the garage
  • Our December, 2009 electric bill was only $15 over November! Dancing LEDs make a difference.
  • My sister in law Judge Linda R. Pratt is up for re-election. Visit her site Re-Elect Judge Linda Pratt.

Click Here to see our 2009 Christmas Photos

Are you are out of work or struggling to make ends meet?
Then you should visit our church, First Presbyterian Church of Coral Springs/Margate for Sunday Services at 10:40 AM, and ask for Jeff. We welcome the opportunity to minister to you during these challenging times with groceries, advice on how to get bills paid, budgeting, guidance on resources offering assistance to give you a hand up.

Our HD video that won the 2009 PlanetChristmas.com Worldwide contest:
"Carol Of The Bells" by David Foster

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