Christmas Decorations - show 'em!

[groundcover]

I thought you used a drone Moss !

 

[MossRoad]

Here is a few pics of the lights up on our new cottage

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

I thought you used a drone Moss !

I live too close to an airport. :laughing:

Got some funny looks from the neighbor. Thought I was going for a woodchuck or something.

 

[groundcover]

Be a handy rig to get a line in a tree to pull up a bull rope to persuade the tree to go where you want it to !

 

[AllByteNoBark]

Aha! Good idea. Just don't want to launch it all the way to the neighbors! :thumbsup:

 

[MossRoad]

Took me three shots to get the first one directly over the top of the tree. Kept pulling to the right. Had to account for the drag of the line. So I aimed about a foot and a half to the left of the top and I'll be if the third shot didn't go directly over the top. . I did the first string, shot the 2nd line, did the 2nd string and by then it was dark. But I could see the tree pretty well with the light up on it, so I shot the 3rd line in the dark and nailed it. It's a very heavy fiberglass arrow. I did remove the fish harpoon beforehand. :laughing:

 

[MossRoad]

Aha! Good idea. Just don't want to launch it all the way to the neighbors! :thumbsup:

Yeah, I kept watching for them, their dogs, cars, etc... checked for power lines, all that good stuff. I stood back about 40' from the tree. Even at full draw, the arrow came down only about 15' on the other side of the tree. That line really puts the drag on the arrow, and once the line starts dragging on the tree-top it pretty much stops the arrow. It only penetrated the lawn by about an inch.

 

[Jstpssng]

Not a good picture, but it's all that I have. The lights are left over from decorating a 30 foot fir tree which my father planted on the site of the old family home where many of us started our lives... my grandfather was born there in 1898. When Alzheimer's took my father I vowed that I was going to put lights on his tree... no small feat since there's no power nearby. These are solar powered, and purple is supposed to be the Alzheimer's color.

I'll take pictures of the tree when I'm down next month; I put the lights up using the same tool as MossRoad.

 

[/pine]

This is hardly anything...we are in a remote area on a mountain river and neighbors are special...The neighbor across the river mentioned nobody ever put up any outside lights so I did this for her...found a few string I put on the hand rails of the steps down into the river and a bench...the neighbor sent me the pic...

 

[MossRoad]

Not a good picture, but it's all that I have. The lights are left over from decorating a 30 foot fir tree which my father planted on the site of the old family home where many of us started our lives... my grandfather was born there in 1898. When Alzheimer's took my father I vowed that I was going to put lights on his tree... no small feat since there's no power nearby. These are solar powered, and purple is supposed to be the Alzheimer's color.

I'll take pictures of the tree when I'm down next month; I put the lights up using the same tool as MossRoad.
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Nice story. :thumbsup: Merry Christmas.