Gone Feral In Idaho

I'm sure I've made a similar post before, but this time of year is so dark and gloomy. I love it when it starts to get chilly and dark for Halloween, but right after it I usually begin to experience seasonal effective disorder. I never really got into Christmas, but in more recent years I've loved putting lights on the house to add some cheer to the long winter season. Last year was our first Christmas tree for my husband and I and the first for either of us in our adult lives for years. Today we got our tree all bought and set up. I spent the evening decorating it which is so much fun for me. The house smells amazing and the lights are so wonderful. Even the glass ornaments glow from within.  Here's to a happy safe warm winter to all!

I hope the host doesn't pull this too quick, But I finally got video footage of Thriller for the first time in years. The program I use is freeware (Vixenlights) plus an Arduino and lots of feet of wire from each prop and spotlight that I hook up to my PC that I move to the Living room window for a week for the show (apparently my laptop is incompatible and my tablet is too new). So for the last two years the show has run buggy. During that time I ran nice ambient spooky sounds and a random light show, just random channels dimming on and off (like I originally wanted, nothing more).  Guess what? I figured out the problem and had the whole 7 song synchronized to music thing running this year. When you run for 4 nights that is a bit obnoxious-yet very satisfying. People love the light show with the music. For the first time we has folks lining the streets each night the weekend before waiting for the "light show". Folks were dancing in the street Friday and Saturday nigh...