Tracking Taylor Swift’s aircraft live on the way to the Super Bowl
How is our electric bill $0.00???
#1 question we always get: "What is your electric bill?".
Last weekend when I was up on the roof taking down the lights, I filmed the answer to that question that "SHOCKS" people.
It's $0.00 thanks to our 38 panels from Empire Solar Solutions and Liz Zurla.
They are offering a special start of year deal so if you're interested, message Liz directly or us and we'll gladly connect you. Also a huge thanks to them for matching your donations last Thursday PLUS sponsoring two additional flights of hope for Angel Flight of New England. There's no better time than the start of year to go solar!
Many MANY thanks to come for all those who helped make last night the single greatest night in our history fundraising for Angel Flight of New England!!
-We went thru over 300 cups of hot coco.
-15 VIE/ Flights in the Santa Simulator
-628 Photos taken in the (S)Elfie Station
-Thousands of visitors
Christmas Eve:
We are open 5 till midnight tonight!!
Make sure to check out the radar screen inside the Elf Traffic Control tower. It will have a LIVE radar tracking of SANTA himself that’s to our friends at Flightradar24!!
Hometown heroes coming to sing Christmas carols! New City Fire Engine Co No 1 THANK YOU!!
THANK YOU!!!
We had the single greatest night in fundraising history for Angel Flight of New England!!!
Those are the only words that come to mind this morning to so many people!
Thank you to everyone who came out last night to both see the regular show and those special VIE (Very Important Elves) who signed up to fly in the Santa Flight Simulator Experience. We also have a garage stacked with boxes of food for People to People - Feeding Rockland's Hungry!!
Thank you to the business who helped make the V.I.E. Experience even better. Aunt Mia's donated 100 cookies which were devoured!!!
New City Bowl & Batting Cages donated a free game to everyone who participated and everything was neatly presented an amazing swag bag from Duke of Oil and Tune who not only helped with the VIE but as always on Saturday, will be matching ALL your monetary donations (going to need a lot of oil changes to equal what we raised last night Lenny!).
But most importantly, thank you to our home town heroes, New City Fire Engine Co No 1 for surprising us with lights and music blasting on their way home from the Orangetown Parade!! We can’t tell you how meaningful is it when you surprise us!!!
***Today (Sunday) Weather Update***
Due to the predicted weather, we will likely have a modified show with less if any inflatables up. Lights and music on 98.1 FM will be in full swing so if it’s bad out, please enjoy safety from your car. Please remember to scan show QR codes to donate. It works even if you zoom all the way in!
Suffern Holiday Parade starts at 6:30pm!!
We are all over the new promo!
****BREAKING NEWS****We are beyond excited to share the world premiere of the teaser video for our upcoming episode of ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight airing on Sunday Dec 3rd at 10pm/9CT!!!TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS: 1) OPENING NIGHT:Join us tomorrow, Friday, Nov 24 as we kick off the season with our annual lighting event "First (F)Light" beginning at 7pm. (There might even be a special guest surprise!! Ho Ho Hmmmmm🤔 ). 2) VIEWING PARTY: Come watch our episode of The Great Christmas Light Fight with us at a public viewing party at The Place in New City. Arrive around 9:30 to order your food, drink, etc. (Cake will be provided complementary after the show). We will be accepting donations to Angel Flight of New England and ask you bring non-perishable food items for People to People - Feeding Rockland's Hungry .Our display couldn't be possible without the support of our amazing community and we are so glad we can experience this incredible moment for our family with all our friends, family and community supporters.
The Great Christmas Light Fight - North Pole Airport Teaser
****BREAKING NEWS****
We are beyond excited to share the world premiere of the teaser video for our upcoming episode of ABC's The Great Christmas Light Fight airing on Sunday Dec 3rd at 10pm/9CT!!!
TWO ANNOUNCEMENTS:
1) OPENING NIGHT:
Join us tomorrow, Friday, Nov 24 as we kick off the season with our annual lighting event "First (F)Light" beginning at 7pm. (There might even be a special guest surprise!! Ho Ho Hmmmmm🤔 )
2) VIEWING PARTY:
Come watch our episode of The Great Christmas Light Fight with us at a public viewing party at The Place in New City. Arrive around 9:30 to order your food, drink, etc. (Cake will be provided complementary after the show). We will be accepting donations to Angel Flight of New England and ask you bring non-perishable food items for People to People - Feeding Rockland's Hungry .
Our display couldn't be possible without the support of our amazing community and we are so glad we can experience this incredible moment for our family with all our friends, family and community supporters.
Oh man. I know exactly what we were taking about and I’m now cringing at the dad joke I know I made. 🤭
Sunday night test with less than two weeks to go!!
1 Year ago TONIGHT we were with Carter Oosterhouse filming for ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight!
Our episode airs in the season premier on
Sunday, December 3 at 10pm on ABC national wide!!
Before that we open our season with the First (F)Light of our display on Friday, November 24th at 7pm.
With the sun setting tonight, we are one step closer to being ready for First (F)Light which is less than a month away. Our very good friends at On Point Tree Service came to help lift the cargo plane up the the side of the house where it’s secured in place. I’m up in the bucket truck guiding it into the custom steel frame I welded for it and attaching the steel cables to the mounts on the roof. Joe and his team at On Point are not only so generous with their time helping us but are also the best around at what they do!
***EXCITING NEWS!!***
We will be marching in this year’s Suffern Holiday Parade just days before our episode airs on season 11 of ABC’s The Great Christmas Light Fight!!
In the midst of setting up the house display, we have begun designing our float!
The parade is Saturday, December 2nd at 6:30pm.
On today’s episode of “what the hell am I building?”
**NEW ITEM ALERT**
I spent the whole weekend designing, building, testing, redesigning, fixing and perfecting our new (S)Elfie Station. This is a BIG improvement over the last minute one we did last year. Walk up to this fully automated station, push the button and take 4 photos. At the end of your session, it displays a QR to scan that takes you directly to your photos to download for free and share!
This ended up being much more complicated than I had originally planned for. It contains:
-Webcam
-20” monitor
-Intel NUC PC
-12v power
-Programmable times 12v relay
-Arduino Adafruit Trinket M0 Nico controller
-Arcade momentary button
As our favorite YouTube engineer says, “The best part of being an engineer is if there’s something you want and it doesn’t exist, you can design and make it yourself”.
Thanks to the power of Disney+, I discovered last night that our entire display was inspired by a 1992 episode of Home Improvement.
“Yeah, it would be perfect if we had an airstrip on the front lawn”- Jill Taylor
Thanks Tim Allen! Guess it’s time we add….”MORE POWER!!!”
First test of the year! (How did you spend your weekend?)