We drove from New York to Richmond late Sunday, with Bianca and Chris, to spend Christmas with our other daughter Danessa and other son-in-law Bobby and their three kids. I cooked and performed the ancient art of turkey shredding and now we are laying around gorged. That's a universal tradition. We indulged in a more limited Richmond tradition Tuesday night and rented a limo for the nine of us to travel around and view the Tacky Lights (yes, the capital letters are appropriate, it is that established a tradition.) Some houses have over 150,000 lights worth of Santa, elf, deer, Peanuts characters, etc, etc displays, in trees, on lawns, blanketing front yards. Our driver who, impressively, says he researches the displays by seeking out the owners in the off-season told us that the most lights are 170,000, 65 percent of which were designed by the owner of the house, and that the guy's electrical bill for December is $15,000.
Tis the season.
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