With the contributions of food and money, we were able to donate approximately 170 pounds of food to the Northwest Assistance Ministries Food Pantry. Thanks for your generosity in supporting our charities this year.
I am posting videos from this years display as I edit and prepare them. Check out the 2011 video page to see the latest ones.
We were told this evening that we won the Holiday Lighting Contest for the Dove Manor Section of Gleannloch Farms for this year. This makes the second year in a row that we have won. Come by and check out our display.
The 2011 version of Christmas on Rose Dawn is live. We had a test run on Thanksgiving Night and then went live the following night. Someone asked me for the artists of some of the songs in our show. I decided to answer that question here. Here are a few of the songs and artists [...]
I have had a couple of productive days. I set up the light rings last weekend. This weekend I got the megatree and the two 8′ trees set up. So far everything I have set up tests OK for connectivity to the LOR controllers. That is a good thing. I hope to set up the nine 3′ [...]
Setup of the display for the 2011 season has officially begun. I installed everything that hangs off of the new dual JUMP’s I built in the off season. I used them for the light balls that I previously had on an A frame Swing set. It was difficult to set that up by myself. Now I [...]
Wow….September has flown by too and set up is approaching fast. What I’ve done this month: I am adding 2 Cosmic Color Ribbons to my display this year. I have spent a lot of time just figuring out how to program them. Thanks to some help from all of the Christmas forums, I think I [...]
I haven’t posted much lately, but that doesn’t mean I am not busy getting the 2011 Christmas on Rose Dawn show ready to roll. Some projects I have been working on include: 1. Creating wiring harnesses with 36 pair and 24 pair multicable. This should cut down on the number of individual extension cords I [...]
I have decided to replace the A-frame that was holding my light balls last year with dual JUMP’s (Jack-up Mega Pole). I built one last year for my Megatree, but these will only be 10 foot tall instead of the 20 foot for my Megatree. That will make them a little less complicated as it [...]