OneWanderingJew, that is hysterical!

shaz, my sis-in-law and her husband who live in Asheville basically chopped the top of a mountain and have a horendously long and steep driveway.

After one particularly beautiful snowfall and after one too many glasses of chardonnay, the 75 rocking chairs surrounding her house suddenly spoke to me!

Chairs with skis! Chairs that can ski down the driveway!

This driveway is at least 1/2 mile long.

We had rocking chair races with the kids down the driveway! We wore helmets!

Needless to say, Aunt GoTravel is loved by her neices and nephews.

One of the fraternities at Johns Hopkins puts up a lovely nativity scene, with the green alien with big eyes peering over everyone's shoulders. baltimore's also the home to 34th street where everyone puts up more crap than you can believe. it's only one block long, with rowhouses, but it's lit up like daylight.

For all you hot weather people. Here's a good one, I just saw yesterday.

Someone here (Chicago Suburban) has an above ground pool with it's green cover (now on, of course) and has the entire thing set up like a Poinsettia. It has lights in red as flower/ petals and green furry type matieral with green twinkles as the shapes of leaves going all up and down the sides.

Some of our areas, very near to me are so bright that it IS like daylight and you will see rows of cars cruising very slowly and waiting to get into certain blocks. One has a garage door screening of "It's a Wonderful Life" going constantly among all the other gizmos. Real overkill. But some of it did look superb in the recent snow.

Two homes here in the Jupiter, Florida area have Christmas scenes which give a giggle. One is the sleigh being pulled by Flamingo's while the other one is the sleigh being pulled by Alligator's. I'm waiting for the Fish scene.

I've always preferred Santa's sleigh being pulled by dolphins. Especially when he's wearing a tropical shirt and shorts. :D

Great new decorating ideas everyone. I think I'll skip the live camels, though. :)

These are cracking me up.

Today at Breakfast with Santa, I saw a child SCREAMING to get away from Santa. He was yelling "don't let him in our house mommeeeee! don't!" His father, embarrassed, was explaining to those of us in line that he think the idea of a bearded fat man coming in at midnight eating all his cookies is rather odd.

Meanwhile, my neighbors have half of a sleigh, facedown, on their roof, as if it has crashed into their house. Wrapped boxes are strewn all oevr the roof and yard, and Santa is hanging from the gutter, as if he is trying to climb back up to his sleigh. MORBID!