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| wardrobe for enjoying outdoor Christmas decorations |
Although we've lived in the tropics and sub-tropics since
the early 1990's, I find it a little difficult to get into the Christmas spirit
when people are running around in shorts in December and temperatures in the
daytime are in the 80's. We Floridians try, however.
A couple of weeks ago, one of the towns around here rented a
snow-making machine and manufactured a good-sized hill so kids could go
sledding for a day. Many of them had never seen snow, except maybe on
television news. Several thousand people showed up to enjoy their fake winter.
A man in Cape Coral ,
a town near where I live, outdoes himself every year with his light show, which
is synchronized with music. The crowds grow as the word spreads, to the point
now that he has put on his website the best way to avoid traffic jams. The
night we visited, we saw people setting up lawn chairs to watch the spectacle.
A lot of the viewers were wearing shorts or Capri pants, and one was barefoot.
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| unbelievable |
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| the minimalist approach |
As for ourselves, we are minimalists, I guess. But we do
accent our palm trees with spotlights and hang colored lights on the front of
the house. And today we put up our inside - artificial - tree. So we are ready!
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