Like so many things we have done with the Farm property, the Christmas tree lighting was a compromise.
We intended to light the big Doug Fir tree "Doug" this year with the 50000 twinkle lights I bought last year on closeout at Home Depot. The tree is at least sixty feet high, so you would be able to see it from a great distance away. We had a bucket lift rented a few days ago. But things just didn't line up. So we compromised and decided instead to decorate Doug's little brother which sits at the north-western corner of the driveway. We always intended to keep this twenty foot tree for decorating, but didn't think it would be the first one.
The morning was fairly nice, merely cloudy and cold with just a hint of drizzle, so we loaded up and journeyed out to Camp Creekside with about 2400 multi-colored twinkle lights, fifty feet of extension cord, and a light sensing timer to keep the electric bill lower.
Twenty feet of tree is quite a thing to light. I have done Christmas lighting professionally since 1997 and this provides a few tricks. But having ladders and a pole to push things where you and them only makes the job do-able, doesn't do the job for you. But we got the lights up.
Our first display is small, but significant.
The little tree can be seen from Highway 26, starting at about 4:30 and turning off about six hours later. Next year we'll do "Doug" at Creekside Farm. This year we'll make due with the little tree at Camp Creekside.
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