It's been forever since this blog has been updated, and with the new site design, I figured I'd make this a habit. Let me inform you what I've been up to these past few months...
Setup
With all of these new lights, we figured we need to start setup earlier. Two weeks ago, in fact, we started setup. We have about 1,000 lights up right now, the majority of which are Christmas, but some are Halloween. All of the lights that are up are on the house. We decided to get those out of the way first.
Halloween
With the mention of Halloween earlier, I wanted to let you guys know that we do a static display for Halloween. This means we only have about 200 lights that are just on, where you can drive by and look at them. There is no music or radio station for Halloween, as we don't have the time to set it up. The lights will be on until Trick-Or-Treat (Nov. 3), unless we loose power with Hurricane Sandy.
New Features
I don't want to be one to give away all the surprises for this year, however, for those who don't mind a few SPOILER ALERTS, I'll post a few things:
- We are almost doubling our channels of computer control. This means that we will have more control over more elements.
- We are adding another 1,000 or more lights. As of the time I've been writing this, we are still not exactly sure how many lights we're adding. But we are confident you will see the addition of at least 1,000 more lights!!!
- New technology will be present. Another reason we started the setting up of the display earlier this year is because we are adding some technology that has never been used in our display before. More on that later...
New Songs
This is another SPOILER ALERT. We plan on adding a few songs at the least. We already have picked out what these songs will be, and everyone who I've ran them by agrees you guys are in for a treat! This year, we are adding some more upbeat songs, but also a couple of slower songs to capture everyone's interest.
Feedback
This is something that I can't stress enough. If anyone has any comments for the show, please use the "Contact Us" form, or sign our guestbook. If you want to watch videos of previous years, they are located on our "Videos" page. Additionally, if you have suggestions for future years, please use the "Contact Us" page. Another brain-stormer is always beneficial. In addition, please "Like" our Facebook page. You will find a link in the upper-right hand corner.