In this section I will explain some of my new display ideas and also keep updating on how the progress is coming for this year!

January 3, 2004
Tonight was the last night for the lights.  The timers have been unplugged and the lights are already getting packed away.  Tomorrow will probably be the big tear down day.  The display was absolutely awesome, but not as good as it will be for Christmas 2004.  After all of my boxing day shopping, I ended up with a total of 7,724 new lights.  Also, I am planning on having computer controlled lights next year.  They will be controlled by software and hardware from a company called Light-O-Rama.  To learn more check there website at www.lightorama.com .

February 26, 2004
Well, things are going well.  I am still buying lights, because one of our stores here still has them out at 60% off.  There will be many new things for the 2004 lighting season.  I have made 3 ropelight presents with pvc pipe.  I made another car for my ropelight train and I have bought many more ropelight figures.  I have got 16 channels of Light-O-Rama for my computer controlled light display.  Now I need to buy my X10 modules and I still plan on getting more Light-O-Rama channels.  It is going to be a great year.  I hope to break 30,000 lights this year!

April 20, 2004
I have still been buying more things for the display this year.  I got 4 speakers for outside last week so that I can play the music outside.  I ordered my X10 timer modules and they are supposed to be in next week.  They will be the best timers for turning all of the lights on/off at the same time.  I ordered some strobe lights for the display this year.  I have now got 15 strobe lights for the display.  Planning is going well and at this point everything is going together nicely.  The work on the computer for the computer controlled lights has been a slow, tedious task but I enjoy every minute of it.  I am still planning on ordering about 24 more LOR channels, but I am waiting for some of the new stuff to come out in mid May to early June.  Then I can place my order.

October 24, 2004
It has been 6 months!!! since the last post.  There has been a lot happening in the last months.  I have got nearly all the stuff for this years display including thousands of new lights, all my timers, although I need to pick up a few more, and lots more.  I will have the majority of the display running by a computer this year.  There will be 40 computer controlled channels that will be making the lights flash to music and lots of other neat stuff.  It will be a great year.  30,000+ lights.