With the economy being so poor, the big PLUS (PlanetChristmas Lights Up Symposium) scheduled this summer in Louisville, KY had to be cancelled, so we decided to do our part to bring the Christmas Enthusiasts here in the Heart of America together to share ideas and get together!

Tim Dorr, Jim Wright, and myself are very excited to have decided to put on a small(er) version of PLUS here in Kansas City!

The weekend will begin with a Red Cup Social on Friday, August 7, 7-9pm, at the Red Robin Restaurant at 95th & Metcalf in Overland Park, KS.

Then on Saturday, the actual Mini will begin with registration/greet and meet at 9am and the official program kicking off at 10am. We expect to wrap up the day around 5pm, depending on the volume of open discussion. This event will be held at McKeever’s Price Chopper in Lenexa, KS

More information and registration is available at the official HAM-PLUS website. If you plan on attending, please visit this thread on PlanetChristmas and submit your vote for topics, as well as the HAM-PLUS website to register.

We hope to see you there! Email me with any questions or ideas.

Happy New Year everyone! With slow traffic, some lights failing, and “descent” weather today and tomorrow, I’ve decided our last show was last night (this morning till 1AM) New Years Eve. I’m going to take advantage of the weather, and start bringing things inside, as it’s so unpredictable here in Kansas.

A big thank you goes out to everyone who helped me this first year. Wilbur, Eric & Kent P….thanks guys very much, couldn’t have done it without your help!

The planning and purchasing has already began for next years show, keep your mouse pointing this way for updates throughout the year!

Thanks to all who came by to enjoy the display, and especially for those that stopped by, left comments, or sent e-mails…..it’s those kind of things that make all this time and effort so well worth it!

Tyson

To bring in the new year bright, we’re keeping the show going till 1AM tonight!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

Videos of everything but 2 voiceovers are now online. Check them out here…

To everyone who has stopped by to enjoy our show in person, thank you for making us part of your Holidays! For those that haven’t been able to stop by, I am in the process of getting video, so be on the lookout for videos being posted.

And to everyone near and far, Merry Christmas!
Tyson, Natalie, and Kevin

The show will be running from 5:30-10:30 nightly until the last show New Years Eve, Wednesday, December 31st, 2008! I decided to do this since going out the other night and could only get in 2 other displays before the 3rd on our list shut down at 10pm. Hopefully that extra 30 minutes sooner and later will help a few people enjoy the display!

Hoping for no rain/snow and above 25 degree temps either in the morning or tomorrow night so I can get video taken and hopefully soon then posted on here for more people to enjoy!

G-Town Christmas made the Johnson County Christmas Display’s list, featured by Kansas Travel. Very cool, check it out!

Merry Christmas!

The total length to this years display is just over 16 minutes. It consists of the following:

Please come by and “Listen to the Lights” to enjoy some Christmas Entertainment. Tune your car radio to 99.9 FM to listen to the music the lights are synchronized with. We are located in Gardner, KS (G-Town) at 430 W Westhoff Pl.

Also please comment here or send us an e-mail with your favorite song, or just to tell us you stopped by! Be safe, and have a very Merry Christmas!

My gosh what a trying few weeks this has been! All the troubles were caused by my main lights on the house going bad. They are known to be bad from the factory, but there’s no replacement until after the holidays when the newly designed/fixed ones are manufactured. So that meant I either fix them, or have a static lame boring display with no lights on the house. So of course I wasn’t going to just give up and have all this time and money wasted for this year! The fix involved putting 2 diodes, and a resistor and both ends of every string of lights…about 35-40 minutes start to finish each string. NOT FUN!

But alas, we have a show, only one element won’t be working (lights around the garage frame) this year (hopefully the 2nd story windows stay going, they haven’t and won’t be fixed but so far are still going). I had to call it quits sometime, and that sometime was long ago but I kept on going. Haven’t had a normal nights sleep in about a week and a half or two…way way behind on Christmas shopping and getting in to the wrapping and activities around the house, was about to need to file for divorce from poor Natalie (I LOVE YOU HONEY, thank you for dealing with my craziness as well as you did!), and it seems things were not going well, and time became less and less, every day that ticked by!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

But the LEDs that line the house were failing miserably fast….so I now have pretty much a static display until I take them all down, cut the bad parts they installed at the factory in China off, and solder 3 new electrical components to each end of each string! That’s 18 strings of lights I get to do this to. I’m hoping a friend can help me tomorrow night and/or Saturday and with any luck the show will be up again Saturday night. I hate that I ran into these problems with these lights, but it’s a known issue, they are taking them back, but there’s nothing to replace them with this season so I have to fix them myself.
At least the display will be going by the time the kids are out for break and more people are out looking at displays! HA!

Sorry for the delay everyone…keep checking here for updates.