The Sacred and the Profane
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Meet Mark Reddig. Mark and I go way back to our days at The Hutchinson News in the 1980s. He's still in the media, being the host of Land Line Now, a satellite radio program about the business of trucking.
Mark has always done Christmas a little differently - pink flamingos pulling Santa's sleigh, back when he lived in Hutchinson, for example.
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Current case in point: This is the nativity scene in front of Mark's house in Independence, Missouri. But wait! Is that a star or...it's a leg lamp. Mark calls this "the sacred and the profane."
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The gifts of the Magi are too valuable to be unguarded, as this bunny with an M-16 knows.
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Of course this is part of an admirably excessive light display.
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Mark says this is 19,570 lights, 63.3 amps and roughly 7,920 watts.
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See the three poles in back, behind the red white and blue yucca? Those are Festivus poles. Yes, "Festivus for the rest of us."
3 Comments:
Nice yard, Markie Pooh!!
Although I think for the purpose of this post, maybe you should go by your alter ego, Ned, Santa's Other Brother!
A SPECTACULAR display!
Thanks so much! Really appreciate the kind words - although I'll never match Sparky!
I took some photos - not as good as Greg's - but if you want to see more ...
http://www.landlinenow.com/2009/12/marks-christmas-lights.html
Merry Christmas!
Markr
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