Last Christmas I posted a blog about our neighbors and their rather "eclectic" taste in Christmas decorations. (Eclectic is a much nicer word than tacky don't you think?!) They have a little bit of everything and it's spread all over the yard. Plastic candles, blow up snowmen, an old wooden nativity scene (that is missing two of the wise men and baby Jesus), colored lights, candy canes, wreaths,....etc,.. The guy that lives there starts pulling things out of boxes about mid November. Every day he spends hours outside putting stuff up and at night the family sits in the driveway and sips cocoa while they admire his handiwork. Over the past few years the decorations have slowly made their way into the surrounding yards and the girls and I jokingly refer to it as the house with the "HO HO Holy stuff in the yard".
This summer those neighbors moved out. I didn't really think too much about it until Anna reminded me that there probably wouldn't be any HO HO Holy stuff in the yard this Christmas. That made me kind of sad. I mean it's become pretty much a holiday tradition around here and we actually look forward to seeing what new things might show up in the yard. In fact, we turned it into a game. "Who can guess what random Christmas decoration will show up next and where will it go?" I had pretty much resigned myself to the fact that I'd have to find some new form of holiday entertainment when who should come strolling up to our garage sale today, but our old neighbors. Turns out they just moved into another neighborhood down the road. So...I can still participate in one of my favorite holiday pastimes, but I don't have to drive by it every day on may home. GAME ON!
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