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A whirlwind bunch of days…..
100s if not 1000s of miles in of travel so far, just to confirm displays.
We do wish we had had more community assistance in verifying displays, that would have saved us a lot of travel time and fuel. But what is done is done now.
Eugene,...

Here we go
Map updates happening all time time, a few new ones as we go along as well.
We would love assistance from the community on checking local displays to see if they are running or not, and to share our main post to their local community pages to bring more attention to our...

We are happy to announce that we have 2 sponsors for the page and map for this year.
They are linked on our front page:
Welcome to PDX, a returning sponsor from last year. Your source for Real Estate in Oregon and SW Washington And DPF Alternatives/Seattle Your source for...

Welcome November.
Here we are working on the webpage and updates to the map, and guess what, we are already listening to Christmas music thanks to SXM.
Is it too soon? Not in our opinion, we need to build up our holiday cheer early, so we can keep going on this until the new year for...

Well , here we are on the 2nd biggest holiday we highlight and map.
It’s been a crazy build up to this, and lots of display visits done, though, as always, we wish we could have done more.
We passed out thank you cards as we could, some displays it just wasn’t feasible or we...

We are in the time of year where we start to seek sponsors to help us keep this project free to the community, as web hosting, and time put into all the work that goes into keeping all this accurate and up to date takes significant amount of work.
Halloween this year we’ve been...

We have worked really hard this year, the map has exceed all of expectations, with partner maps, it doubled in size from last year.
We are getting 2-4,000 hits on the map DAILY. Website is getting at least 200-300 new hits daily, Facebook even more. Follows on page is getting ever closer...

Even though we are in the heat of the Halloween season, we are always looking forward to the next holiday, and how to plan for it. Christmas holiday is next, and many displays will be up and running by or around Black Friday, and significantly more December 1.
We are already building the map...

This is the first BIG weekend for display light ups. We are looking forward to seeing some displays lit up in their full glory, and sharing them with the community, via Live videos, and photos we will take of the displays.
We may try experimenting with Instagram Live and see how that works...

Seasonal depression is a serious issue for some, and it affects some of our team as well, and has for many years. Some people have it due to loss of a family member during/near the holidays, or just missing that person’s presence during the season it could stem from childhood issues, or any...