I may not be the world's best Christmas decorator, but I have to admit that the Smoot family is highly amused by some attempts at decorations. We always get a good chuckle out of people who attempt to illuminate a single tree in their yard with just one strand of lights. Instead of making the tree look festive and cheerful, it makes it look like someone forgot to decorate the rest of the tree. Or maybe they simply said the heck with it after struggling with the one set of lights.
We used to drive through a small town near Mrs. Smoot's family, and there was one tree in particular that really made us laugh. It was at the corner of a very busy intersection, and the owners would decorate it only as far up as they could reach. The result was that the bottom third of the tree was nicely lit, but the top half of the tree was bare. The result? From a distance, the tree looked a lot like a mushroom cloud. We haven't been through this particular town for quite a few Christmases, so we still wonder whether the Mushroom Cloud Tree is still there.
Probably the weirdest attempt at Christmas decorating occurs right on our own street every year. We have a neighbor up the road who has an extremely strange, semi-disturbing, display. He has taken old, foil Christmas trees and turned them into other displays. There's an airplane, and other random stuff scattered throughout his yard. Few things put me into the holiday spirit more than his 7-foot tall, plastic Jar Jar Binks (of Star Wars fame) with a Santa hat. And they also have a big chair with Santa Claus and a child sitting in his lap. This sounds holiday-like, but there's also a glowing light hanging over their heads, and the whole thing looks suspiciously like an electric chair. These neighbors haven't put up their display yet, but if/when they do, I'll be sure to snap some pictures.
Tis the season… to be concerned, I guess!
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