All the display items in the yard have been broken down and the lights have been packed away. And yes... it was COLD and WINDY the past three days!!! The house decorations are next and will be taken down and put away over the next week. Thanks again for making 2009 a great year!

Another year of lights is history. Last night was the last night for the lights until Thursday, November 25th when we start it all over again. Plans are already being put to paper and two new songs are already being worked on. We hope you all enjoyed the lights as much as we did and thank you to all those who donated to CHOW!

Happy New Year's Eve!!! The lights will be on until midnight tonight and 10:00pm on New Year's Day.

If you are stopping to enjoy the lights, we ask that you remember East Maine Road can be a very busy road at times and completely dead at others. The suggested speed limit is 35MPH over the crest of the hill(thanks Judge! ) but people do not seem to follow that suggestion. Please feel free to pull into our driveway to enjoy the lights! Two cars can pull side-by-side and if you go in far enough another two can pull in behind you.

PLEASE TAKE NOTE: We cannot have people parked in the road, if this happens the lights will have to be turned off. Unfortunately some people travel well over the cautionary speed limit of 35MPH on the downhill side of our road so... DO NOT STOP IN THE ROAD!!! PLEASE PULL INTO OUR DRIVEWAY and if there is not room consider stopping by later. If you have tried a few times and just can't get in, send us an email and we'll make arrangements.

The display is located at 1245 East Maine Rd in the Town of Maine(in NY).

We have always enjoyed decorating the house for Christmas and in 2007 we had a display with about 4,000 Christmas lights and 13 inflatable.

2008 was the first year that we had the display synchronized to music broadcast on 94.9 FM radio via a low-powered FM transmitter. There were around 45,000 computer controlled lights with Silver, Gold, and Red being the primary colors. In all, we could control 176 individual channels of lighting. The inspiration for the 2008 display was Richard Holdman of Utah. Our whole family has enjoyed his display for the past three years and our display tries to capture his style of synchronized lighting(and boy does he have style!).

Some items of interest in 2008 were a 21 foot Mega-Tree with 4,800 lights, four 10 foot animated arches with 1,700 dancing lights each, and a 12 foot tree with 4,800 lights.

For 2009, we have kept everything from 2008 and have added about 20,000 lights and 80 more lighting channels. There are now three snowflake trails on the house, a total of eight "jumping" arches, and twice as many lights on the two smaller 10' trees.