Christmas Decorations Accomplished

The first weekend after getting back from our trip to see family in Oklahoma, we managed to more or less do our decorating for Christmas. At least the major parts. How did we do this in one day?  Well, we don't do a lot of decorating. Mostly a few lights and a tree.  But its done and here's how it looks:

The color-changing lights are the finished (but not fully documented here, at least not yet) project I've started writing about. Nerd grade: 3; its a start and with my wife's consent we will be adding more windows next year.

The tree was purchased and decorated this morning.  I plan on making a more formal version of my automated Christmas tree water-er rather than the bread-board mess I whipped together last time. Not only does this increase the nerd score for Christmas, it saves the hassle of crawling and pouring water into the tree stand; my wife likes this idea very much.

The snowflake and leaf lights are what we've done the past two years at this house. They were our token effort to do external lighting.

There's probably going to be incremental decorating on the interior of the house but our public-facing portion is complete. Not bad for a days work.