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I'm 23 years old.
The first time I did a solo Christmas display
by myself was probably at the age of 13.
We started out with a few blow molds
and god,
it went from there.
There are currently
40,396 bulbs,
216 blow molds,
and roughly 200-plus extension cords.
He always was very much into Christmas from the time he was little,
and I guess it kind of rubbed off from me.
Basically I work for a junk yard,
towing in vehicles to be cut up and dismantled to be sold for parts.
I drive a heavy duty truck
and basically I just tow trucks back and forth all day long.
He's a kid that's never going to grow up.
And someday when he has a wife and he has children of his own,
he's still going to be that kid.
Snow juice.
It's a very complex recipe of water and some other fluids
to make it work because buying it is just too expensive,
and it's not practical.
I make my own.
This is basically the brains of the whole display.
All together, there's almost 300 amps.
That's a lot of power. But it's all timed down to the second,
and they're put in where I want them,
and they do what I want them to do.
It's a work in progress.
There's more to be added.
At some point,
I need a bigger house.
Never in my wildest dreams
would I have fathomed that it would have gotten to this ...
and from the look of things and from the way things are going,
it's not going to stop.
There's something else I could do with this system I get next year,
I can actually make robots move and stuff like that.
So it's quite complex.
I don't have any robots in the yard yet.
Yet.
It is expensive, it's very time consuming
but it's okay because when I see the little kids' faces,
and how happy it makes them, it makes our Christmas season.
And sometimes he's like, "What am I crazy? Why am I doing this?"
But then he remembers.
A friend of the family,
one of their daughters died at the age of 16 of cancer,
so we started working with them to raise money for their foundation.
Her wish was to have a cancer-free world,
and that's what we collect money for.
Last year, we raised a total of $1,100.
This year I was like, "I don't know if we're going to pass that,
but maybe we will. Maybe we'll get lucky."
Sometimes I wonder why I do all this, but it is for a good cause.
And I love seeing the faces of the little kids,
so I can't complain.