Spinning Christmas Tree

I set up the camera with a very slow shutter speed to capture the rotating Christmas tree here at Copeland Christmas.



Here's what the tree looks like when it's stationary. Pretty cool.

After Christmas Shopping

A few days ago, we got the entire inside of the house all packed away. Here's a few photos I snapped of some after Christmas sale items I bought.

The santa face was $6 at Stein Mart....a deal.

The Wizard of Oz lights were an eBay purchase. I think they were only $20 inc shipping. Since they are Adler, I think that's a really good deal. I can't wait to put up my WOO tree again next year.

Christmas Lights in Snug Harbor Estates

Earlier this month, I took a drive (okay 6 drives) through the Snug Harbor Estates neighborhood in Palm Beach Gardens, FL. It is beautiful!!!

Here's my commentary...

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

The old oak trees are unbelievable! Floridians are usually lazy about wrapping the branches up high...not in this neighborhood. The dripping meteor lights are everywhere. Right now, they are $79 per strand (of 5 lights). I can't imagine how much they have invested in these lights alone. I love it.


Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

The end of the street has a wonderful toy factory wireframe. The assembly line has animated presents travelling along a conveyer (sp) belt.

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
Even up in the trees, they have giant candy canes.


Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
I have admired the icicle edges at Abacoa for a while...this house has the same type of lights...I think I'm going to build my own for next year since my 2011 display was "supposed" to have them.

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL
I really liked the red/white striped trees.

Snug Harbor Estates, Palm Beach Gardens, FL

After Christmas Sales

This year, we didn't go crazy athe after-Christmas sales. We didn't wake up at 5am, we didn't tag team the mall with dual trucks, we didn't map out each store by order of opening time. We took it easy and slept in! It was great!
I think we spent a grand total of $115. I bought a few Disney village pieces to add to my collection, plus I had to buy the Lowes village piece. :)

Now, we've already begun putting everything away. Today, it was chilly at 55 so I opened up all the doors, put the oven on the clean cycle, and started cleaning. Here's what I got put away...candy village, glitter village, snowman scene, 9.5 spinning tree. It doesn't sound like much, but I'm happy with the progress.

We have more Ram!

We installed more ram on the Copeland Christmas laptop! We replaced the two 1 gb chips with 2 gb chips...yay! Now I just need to get all the photos off the laptop and onto an external portable hard drive.


It was kind of fun to open the back of the laptop and change out circuit boards. I'm just thankful we had a good friend guide us to which ram we needed to buy.

Video from the Past: 2009

Remember this...I miss Carolyn Scofield...

Toys For Tots donation

We've been receiving tons of toys this year for Toys For Tots!

Here's a recent photo of a neighbor who had the MCHS cheerleading squad collect bags and bags of toys.


We appreciate this sooo much!

Lights are off Tonight

The rain has the lights off tonight :( We are just sitting around tonight.

Need More Memory

My computer guru friend Michael came over last night to see Copeland Christmas. He took a quick look at my laptop and gave me some advice. I he was angel-sent since he took one look at my free hard drive space and told me I'm at an absolutely critical point. (uh oh)



I knew it was bad, but I never knew what to do about it. Michael told me that all laptops have two avialable slots for memory. He discovered on my laptop that I currently have two 1 gb memory cards already installed. He said I just need to buy two 2 gb memory cards and replace them. (Ordered this morning from tiger direct for $54).

Then, he said I have to get rid of cclear and malware bytes and adaware. He suggested to get Norton 360 and let it take care of everything from virus protection to backups. He said once you get 2, 3, 4 different "free helpers," they start canabalizing/conflicting with eachother. It makes sense.

Lastly, he wants me to get two external hard drives and put all the photos from 2007 to present on them. He said to get the portable kind. I thought it would be hard for me to move the music off...but I've haven't minded at all...and it's been 6 months.

I KNOW it's going to be hard for me to get all those photos off the laptop (because I use them all the time). I'll save this for last.

Thanks agian Michael. For trustworthy residential or commercial computer needs, call my friend Michael Serio. http://www.mdscomputerconsulting.com/

The Lights are On Tonight!

The rain didn't keep us dark tonight!