Gi-normous Christmas Tree Update

My beautiful and extremely talented accountant wife helped me figure out the radius and lengths for the light strings that are going to hang down from the top of the pole. We are looking at a radius of 5' with an exposed pole height of 18'. The actual pole length is 20'3", but I am going to have 2'3" in the ground.

So after I get the air conditioner all closed up for winter, I will head over to Lowes and purchase the materials.

Not Carpel Tunnel Syndrome - Worse?

Went back to the doctor's today for a check up on my right hand. It still has been hurting but it is now isolated to just the thumb area. The last time I was there they had me do some blood work and he gave me the results. He said that I may have rheumatoid arthritis. This sucks...

Gigantic Christmas Tree Part Deux

I went over to Home Depot and spied around for some building materials. I think I am going to go with 1" conduit that comes in 10'lengths. I will have to connect the pipe together with a coupling to get a least 20' in height. I will also have to install a 1 1/2" X 24" pipe in the ground with concrete as a base. I will slide the 1" pipe into the base and this should keep it upright and steady. I am also going to buy this green wrapped wire and hook it to the top of the pole. I think this is going to look pretty cool...

Gigantic Christmas Tree Pole

I have this idea to create a giant christmas tree pole that would tower over our home. I figure I could set up a flag pole in our yard and then attach metal hooks to the top. The LED light strings would then drape down from the top and be anchored to the ground.

Here is my idea:

Christmas 2005 - Let the Madness Begin

So I have been racking my brain trying to come up with a plan for my christmas yard decorations. I found the site PlanetChristmas.com and they have a bunch of cool ideas and links to vendors.

I bought a few LED light sets last year, and I was intrigued by the miniscule amount of electricity that they draw. I decided to go ahead and try to incorporate more LED into my displays, therefore I purchased 12 units of C6 LED multi-color lights from AnimatedLighting.com yesterday. The lights are 70 count and span 23 feet each. I should receive them in a week and I plan on using them to construct my monster christmas tree.

Today, I ordered a Santa Inflatable from Wal-Mart.com. It will fit perfectly on the flat roof above my garage.

I am also looking at designing several wire frames to make stars and possibly and igloo. I would also like to incorporate some penguins and polar bears, but I do not know how much time I will have to complete all these tasks.

One idea I have is to create an army of toy soldiers (6 or so) to line my driveway. I made several chrismas cutouts out of plywood a couple of years ago and they work great. I will probably use this technique to create the toy soldiers.