Christmas with Neighbor

In an effort to make their ridiculous dues worth it, my HOA does sad things like have yard decorating contests for Halloween and Christmas. I think the only thing we "win" is our name in the newsletter and one less night to cry ourselves to sleep.

After seeing the winners of the Halloween yard contest, Neighbor has decided he will conquer the Christmas contest.

Last weekend he spent hours and hours wrapping his tree in lights. Do you know how many? Over 800 lights! A total of 3,300 in his whole yard!! I hate that I remember this because I need that space in my brain for memories of boys' childhoods.

He decided that LIGHTS aren't enough and promptly hung massive ornament balls from his poor tree. That wasn't enough so he put a ginormous inflatable Santa in his driveway.

That is B standing next to it.

The view from our driveway. Notice our now-tiny Snowman and pitifully bare shrub?

This clearly shows that not just a huge truck can clue everyone in to how minuscule your *ahem* is.

Apparently a Santa Hulk wasn't good enough and tonight he approached Jeff about putting lights in our shrubs that border his yard. Just to make his point, he laid a pile of lights by them so he could spring into action the minute we agreed.

I so want to do something like this.