December 2024

Our Holiday village is up and running! It took much longer to put up this year, another casualty of my loss of energy due to having a stroke. But we got it done, thanks to my friend Lisa who came four days to help!

The light-up hot air balloons are new this year, found in the garden center at Ace Hardware, They are solar powered so we take them outside on sunny days to recharge them.

There are six trains running this year, although only 4 show up on the video. there are 2 freight trains at floor level. We had a derailment during the video, and did not get it fixed right away, The Polar Express and Circus train are on the upper level on the east side, with the Polar Express stopping at the train station and the Circus train stopping at the Circus. On the west side we have a John Deere train and a miscellaneous setup for the sixth train. It has some of Bill's favorite cars from 65 years of collecting trains.