Sick fetish or home improvement?

LAGEORGE · Mar 30, 2004

Hello everyone, my wife thinks I have a problem. Seems that she thinks that I have taken the landscape lighting thing to far. She often comments that it looks like an airport with all the runway lights. I search home improvement stores and the Internet looking for closeout sales on outdoor lighting equipment. I run hundreds of feet of cable and have installed 6 transformers including one massive regulated unit that I got from our shop that was just sitting collecting dust. I think I have a total of 2200 watts of light but hey who’s counting. I have spent a 1 and ½ working on the project, buying light and secretly stashing them in the shed waiting for the right moment to plant them in the orchard.
Also it can be a pain when trying to maneuver around the lights with the tractor but I have wide terraces and 18 foot spacing between the lights so I can drive between them just fine. I plan to finish the upper terraces one day but am having trouble locating the correct wire to run up that far but hopefully I will get it done this summer.
I find it is an excellent way to enjoy your home after dark at the same time provide some necessary lighting without the harsh lighting that those sodium or mercury vapor lights give off. We use those too but only after 12:30am

Attached is a picture of our front drive at night.

George

LAGEORGE · Mar 30, 2004

Picture 2 of 2

Love those orange trees, and they taste much better than that import stuff too! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

higgy · Mar 30, 2004

looks great to me. I think you have done a great job.

Junkman · Mar 30, 2004

It looks very nice, but I will have to agree with your wife, unless you send some of those sweet juicy succulent fruits out my way to taste. You can PM me for the address. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

TOMDUALLY · Mar 31, 2004

LOOKS INTERESTING, IF THIS MAKES YOU HAPPY GO FOR IT; AND ASK YOUR WIFE IF SHE WOULD RATHER SEE YOU EMERGING FROM A DIMLY LIGHTED ORANGE GROVE OR A DIMLY LIGHTED BAR DOWN TOWN. SEE IF THAT QUESTION WILL CHANGE HER PRESPECTIVE ON THE LIGHTING. LOL /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

JimR · Mar 31, 2004

I think you did a great job. Your wife on the other hand probably feels like she is at Disneyworld at night.

wroughtn_harv · Mar 31, 2004

You're a very sick person.

So was Van Gogh.

Seriously, if you can afford the electric bill I think it's fantastic.

dummy · Mar 31, 2004

Looks great in the picture. All I see is uplighting, don't you need some pathwayand driveway lights too? /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Nasty135 · Mar 31, 2004

Lageorge ,WOW that is some place, Maybe the lights are there so u can pick your fruit at night and your wife can sit out front during the day and sell it to help pay the electric bill?
/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif OR maybe the lights are there so when the alein space craft comes back for you they'll be able to find you all the sooner?? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Just kidding it's beautiful!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Golfgar4 · Mar 31, 2004

I like the effects very much! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Just one question........

..........do you put color bulbs in at Christmas time???? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif