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Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Colorful dirigibles anchored to the ground with web straps. One house here in town looks like the Macey’s Thanksgiving Day Parade crash-landed in the front yard. It even has a 9-foot inflatable Grinch. Oh, and nothing celebrates the birth of Christendom’s Lord and Savior Jesus Christ like a wire polar bear on skis! Or a pointy, fur-trimmed hat in Denver Bronco logos and colors – yeah, that has “virgin birth in Bethlehem” written all over it!

Then there’s the modest home with absolutely nothing in the front yard except a hand-painted plywood cutout of the Nativity. Illuminated by a single floodlight. Oh, wait, no … that really does say Christmas.

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An older large farm house visible from the interstate, has an electric candle in each window, and that is a nice decoration.

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[QUOTE=GrizzRich]
Right in downtown Willoughby Ohio, there is currently a nativity scene (put in place by the Knights of Columbus, I believe)

Immediately BEHIND the manger scene, is a permanent War Memorial Monument.
Part of this Memorial is a large CANNON. The muzzle of which points directly at, and is less than ten feet from, the back of the manger.

I have a picture of it and keep thinking that the caption should read…
the Romans were tipped off as to the whereabouts of this ‘saviour’
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Could you get a picture of that and post it here?

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[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord]
You do have other decorations up so it’s not as bad a situation. You still may want the green bulb to be sure. :wink:
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The red bulb is actually our only decoration. I’m starting to come around to my husband’s way of thinking - maybe a single red bulb as Christmas decorations isn’t really the way to go.

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A red bulb on the porch is the Christmas equivalent of the neighbor with a yellow bug light in the summer.

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A red bulb on the porch is the Christmas equivalent of the neighbor with a yellow bug light for independance day. Like can you shut off the light dude. It ruins the fireworks we came to see.

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I haven’t been there this Christmas, but a year or two ago I did a project in the small Texas town of Comanche. On the main street there is a mexican restaurant called IIRC, El Sombrero. They have a large fiberglass teepee in a cactus garden in front of the restaurant. For Christmas, they placed a lighted plastic snowman in the cactus garden. My first thought on seeing this was that there was some definite cultural confusion going on here.