Christmas 2015

steveinaz

Some pics of the cabin:

WagnerRC

Looks great Steve. Merry Christmas.

dromunds

Excellent. Happy Holidays!

mrbiron

That tree doesn't grow naturally in the wild!!!!
I kill 1 pine tree a year and then heave it into the mulch pile the day after christmas. "Murrica! Speaking of that, the tree goes up in a couple days!

Looks good. My wife gets at me every year about not decorating the outside of the house with lights. "One day...........for the kids" is what i tell her.

george daniel

Looks great!

scubalab

Beautiful place Steve!

tonyb

Nice Steve, except that flat roof is a perfect landing spot for Santa and some Reindeer. You also need a few Lizards with Santa hats roaming around. Work on that next year.

ZLTFUL

Merry Christmas from our family to you and yours!

steveinaz

Very cool!

Post up those pics!!

westmassguy

Beautiful house Steve! Hope you have a great Christmas Brother.

scottyboy76

lovely lovely lovely, merry Christmas everybody.

Please do show us your place decorated, and anyone who feels comfortable, if you have little ones, include their little faces at this wonderful time of year.

steveinaz

Thanks fellas.

cnh

Looks great! The only thing you're missing is the "snow"! It's Arizona, after all. I'm no fan of the winter white, but a white X-mas is not a bad thing and we usually have one up here!

Merry Christmas!

mhardy6647

We had thick white hoarfrost this morning -- it looked like snow in places.

Our tree is fresh cut (by me, a week ago) and lighted/ensconced in the LR but not otherwise decorated yet.

steveinaz

We usually do get 1 or 2 snowfalls per winter--not much, maybe 2" accum. We have had a rare 8-10" snow fall back the late 80's. We are "suppose" to see some snow this year...we'll see....

The winter is strange here. It can be 20 degrees when you wake up, and be 65-70 degrees on your way home from work; once that sun sets, it gets cold fast.

Nightfall

I was thinking about getting a Charlie Brown Christmas tree this year. There's no room in my apartment for an entire friggin' tree. My Polks and Salamander stand have seniority on that space.

mhardy6647

Nightfall wrote: »

I was thinking about getting a Charlie Brown Christmas tree this year. There's no room in my apartment for an entire friggin' tree. My Polks and Salamander stand have seniority on that space.

Do it, do it, do it!

(no peer pressure or nothin')

... otherwise, a nice aluminum tree. That's the ticket.

https://youtu.be/KGXxWBEbQmg

hochpt21

The first year we were at this house, we had just moved in before Christmas so didn't do lights outside. The second year, I got a light-up wreath for above the garage door, but that's it.

This is our third year, and I finally got some lights out there! Feels nice.

hochpt21

And here is a picture of the back deck (we were grilling out that night)

Willow

I'll post pics soon. It's at our new house with over 360 lights. I'll do more next year.
The two blue spruce trees to the right have lights and all the gutters have them as does those whole side of the house as does the whole front porch.

mhardy6647

^^^ I quite like the exterior. Not that there's anything wrong with the tree ;-) -- I just wanted to call out the outside lights; they're elegant and not overdone (relative to my taste, what little I manifest).

We are very dull in the dull Yankee tradition; white (clear) bulbs in single "candles" in all the front and side windows.

I haven't photographed it this year; it looks the same every year, though (and pretty much the same as the old house in MA looked for 22-ish Christmases). This year, we do have fresh-cut greens on the doors from our daughter & son-in-law's heavily wooded new property.

The tree is -- ahem -- still a work in progress even as I type this. Mrs H and I are ridiculously busy for two nominally (ostensibly) retired people.

EDIT: Last year's version -- not a great photo, even reduced to b&w, though.

DSC_9880 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

hochpt21

Just got the tree done.

Nightfall

This is all I got. What bachelor does more? I'll possibly add the Charlie Brown tree.

scottyboy76

hochpt21 wrote: »

Just got the tree done.

Really nice tree and love the old school multi color lights.

looks like you have 2 fans already, bet they can stare at that all night.

hochpt21

scottyboy76 wrote: »

hochpt21 wrote: »

Just got the tree done.

Really nice tree and love the old school multi color lights.

looks like you have 2 fans already, bet they can stare at that all night.

Thanks Scotty...

Yes, all 3 kids have been memorized all night.

Wife likes the 'classy' white lights out front of the house, but I have free reign inside. I grew up with the big old colored lights, so that's what I prefer!

Willow

mhardy6647 wrote: »

^^^ I quite like the exterior. Not that there's anything wrong with the tree ;-) -- I just wanted to call out the outside lights; they're elegant and not overdone (relative to my taste, what little I manifest).

We are very dull in the dull Yankee tradition; white (clear) bulbs in single "candles" in all the front and side windows.

Thank you. So that's 360 lights outside and who knows how many on the tree. I do want to do our little peak above the porch but have yet figured out a way to do it as all the lights on the eaves are connected. I'd have to figure out a way to split it.

I'll have to look into you're white bulbe candle tradition. It is hard to see from that picture.

mrbiron

mhardy6647 wrote: »

DSC_9880 by Mark Hardy, on Flickr

DEAR GOD!!!!
Texas Chainsaw Massacre was filmed at your house?! Loosely based on something you haven't told us yet?......... Leatherface?

The B&W makes it extra erie...

mhardy6647

Note to myself, take new holiday lights photo :-P

Heck, my chainsaw is out on loan to my son-in-law, too...
well, I do have an old Sears electric chainsaw downstairs, but I think that Consumer Reports rated those "unacceptable" for massacring.

mrbiron

Not so much as unacceptable but really unpractical.

This reminds me of a campy horror movie..."The Jackhammer Massacre" where the antagonist runs around with a CORDED jackhammer and yes, you guessed it, has it come unplugged during his escapades.
Seen Here

mhardy6647

in a related note, my daughter & son-in-law blithely strode into the woods on their (recently acquired) property and... and... I can barely bring myself to say this... murdered an innocent little evergreen. Killed 'im in cold sap. Brutal. I believe there was a hatchet involved. No cord.

Kids these days.

Msabot1

steveinaz wrote: »

Some pics of the cabin:

Christmas in Southern Arizona..there is nothing quite like it..The night sky..the brilliance of the stars...all the lights you will ever need...Merry Christmas to you and everyone on here..and may all find peace during this special time...