The Christmas Season Begins

Christmas decorating starts early here in Abaco. Today we put the lights up on the lighthouse. This year we strung them up with small ropes attached, in order to hopefully support them better. In our windy winter cold fronts, they blow around a lot and chafe through, making it quite difficult to keep them lit for the whole month. It was a time consuming effort of 2 1/2 hours, but we had a fantastic group of about 12 tenacious people to assist.

Wow, it was the hottest day we have ever had to complete this project and we kept trying to find the least little bit of shade we could find to string out the lights and attach the rope.

Then they were carefully hauled up the outside of the lighthouse to the guys at the top who secured them while they were also secured on the ground.

Even the chickens 'helped out'....sort of. They started getting so close to our feet I thought they were going to peck at us.

Tonight it was totally calm and the lights on the lighthouse and our marina look awesome!

And so the holiday season begins!