It's begining to look like Christmas

Yesterday, Grandma Laurie, Ed and I spent the day working on the Christmas decorations around the apartment complex. We stilll have a long way to go before it is completed but at least we got started. Every year we try to change things a little. It keeps the residents guessing as they never know what we are going to do. The change this year was to add hats to the yard lights. We have both Santa and Elf hats and we alternated them on the poles. We have a lot of yard lights here - 41 to be exact. And they all get wrapped in a string of 100 miniture Christmas lights. We decided that only the poles along the driveway would get the hats. It has been fun to hear the comments we have already gotten from both our residents and their guests. The two little trees that you see in the picture are in front of the community room. Every year they also get dressed for the Holidays. It is great fun to watch the expressions change on the people who notice the lights are sporting festive hats. And if you are wondering how these hats stay on - it is with the help of double sided tape and newspaper helps them to hold their shape. Well got to get back to the decorating still have lots to get done.