Away in a manger…

Posted on Nov 30 in Life in Evansville, personal storiesby TalinaPrint

Holiday decorations are so much fun. We are digging ours out today and beginning the fall to winter decor transition. On Friday when we were celebrating our Thanksgiving we got to watch our neighbors and their holiday decoration ritual. It was good for a laugh or two.

First off these are neighbors that are hardly ever home. For fall they had a bale of hay, a scarecrow, some pumpkins and gourds all spread around in a nice holiday spread. For most of friday morning the neighbor was gingerly picking and scraping up the rotten, moldy gourds and pumpkins with a shovel. It seemed he was trying to preserve the bale of hay.

By the afternoon he was putting up new decor… a craptastic, I mean interesting little cheap looking cardboard manger that is propped up against the bale of hay.

Now normally we don’t rag on people for nothing. I mean we don’t even really dwell on the ridiculous, white-trash blow up/ snow globe yard decor that so many people here love. But when you spend so long and are so stinking anal about one simple little two dimensional cardboard cutout you are bound to be the butt of some jokes.

He seriously spent an entire day fussing with his cardboard manger! N facebooked:

Cooking the turkey and laughing my ass off…the neighbors are still futzing with the cardboard manger. This is going on like 4 hours now and they’ve spent most of the afternoon standing in the street staring at it…beer bottles and smokes in hand.

Here is what all the fuss was about:

We hope to get our decorations tackled today but I assure you drinks, smokes and hours of pondering won’t take place! That doesn’t mean the neighbors wont have an ordeal to chuckle at though.

We might have to use our car to get on the roof of the house though, since we don’t own a ladder. We’ll be providing the holiday decor entertainment today. Hopefully nobody gets hurt. LOL.

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4 Comments

• Becky says:

  November 30, 2009 at 3:58 pm

  That’s quite the impressive manger. Not sure why it would take 4 hours and pondering though.

  Good luck with your decorations, and be safe hanging everything up!!
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• Krystal McCarthy says:

  November 30, 2009 at 6:28 pm

  ARE YOU KIDDING ME?

  lol

  By N’s fb status updates on Friday I thought that it was gong to be some kind of huge spread!

  And…

  Thats it?

  At least you got a lugh or two out of it! Hope you take pic of the “car ladder”!
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• Karen says:

  November 30, 2009 at 11:17 pm

  that is too freaking funny! Looks like it could have been done in 8 minutes or less.
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• Donna B. says:

  December 2, 2009 at 1:07 am

  Karen — $5 says I could have done it in 7 minutes with my dominant hand tied behind my back! I am LMAO!!

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