BTW, while I appreciate the folks who have asked if they can donate/PayPal to cover the costs of the lights and (wind powered and carbon offsett'ed!) electricity, I've never asked for donations and don't plan to change that. While it is a bit of work to put up all the Christmas stuff, I do it anyway for the neighborhood kids and the web site is just my way of saying "Merry Christmas" to folks around the world. If you feel compelled to make some sort of contribution, my kids have celiac disease ... so make a donation to the University of Maryland Center for Celiac Research - tell 'em Komar.Org sent 'ya! ;-)
2009_10_01: The warmup for Christmas is the halloween decorations webcam which was turned on today. Over 7,500 lights in this years Halloween Decorations plus giant inflatable Frankenstein, Grim Reapers, Pumpkins, Witches, SpongeBob SquarePants, and Homer Simpson - D'OH!!! ;-)
2009_10_26: The Christmas Blog has been turned on a bit early in case Halloween fans wanted to start commenting.
2009_10_31: Another crazy-fun Halloween night! After two feet of snow two days earlier, the sun came out and it warmed up, so almost 300 trick-or-treaters came by. They almost cleaned me out of candy (I was too generous early on) and I also passed out shots of Bailey's, Port, Tequila, and Egg Nog Whiskey for the "big" kids. Check out all the action in the time-lapse halloween movies while listening to some halloween music and read the funny commentary in the halloween blog. Come back for halloween 2010! ;-)
2009_11_05:
While I was busy taking down my Halloween decorations my neighbor again
won the annual "competition" to see who can put their Christmas
stuff up first ... but putting out one inflatable Santa and one
inflatable Penguin. My stuff won't be up for a couple of weeks, rest assured
that my display will have just a wheeee bit more stuff! ;-)
