Outdoor Christmas decorations are springing up daily. I’ve put up one of those inflatable Santa Clauses – stands 8 feet tall – and a string of lights around my palm tree in the front yard. I need to do more, but haven’t found the time. Most neighbors have strung lights across their yard including the on the ground. I wouldn’t have ever try that in Reno as the lights would be covered in snow a few times through out the year, but we don’t have to worry about that here. This gives decorators the freedom to do some neat designs like placing a string of blue lights to simulate water.

For the mega decorators, most stores now sell the dancing Christmas lights. Hook this $100 unit up to your lights and it will choreograph them to one of a few Christmas jingles. It comes complete with a loud speaker, but lacks a neighbor annoyance detection system. Wasn’t the dancing lights a viral video from last year? It’s nice to see companies paying attention to what’s cool.