A new year means, among other things, cleaning out the old and starting fresh. And so it is with my desktop. I have scads of links scattered about that I intended to post but never got “a round tuit.” So before I drag them all to the trash and into virtual oblivion, I thought I might post a couple I thought were worthy but somehow slipped through the cracks:
Holiday Mixer
My mother-in-law, Pat, sent me this AP photo of the S.T. Griswold & Co. “Holiday Mixer.” Seems Griswold decorates one of its cement mixers every year and drives it around the town of Montpelier, Vermont, through New Year’s Eve churning up a unique mix of holiday cheer for local residents. It takes a crew of six a week to decorate the truck with more than 30,000 lights and, yes, the cement drum still turns! More info
Airstream Holiday Light Show
I don’t know how I missed this, but Denny Wilson didn’t. I know you’ve all seen the original video of the house that was decorated with lights and synched to Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Wizards In Winter. There have been a few copies - other houses with lights synched to other TSO songs - but nothing as unique as this one:
There. My desktop is clean. I think I’ll take the rest of the day off.