Our Blowmold Santa And His Sleigh and Reindeer - Flying for 2019
For the first time , our blowmold 1 Santa Claus - sitting in his sleigh - has his three blowmold reindeer up and flying up, up and away. He's in our front yard and all lit up with a brand new set of reins that are made of 30' of rope light from Menards. I have been trying to think about how to get the reindeer to 'fly' for a number of years. We didn't even put this set out last Christmas because I was caught in 'planning mode' too long and never got around to getting them to fly. My initial design called for them to be 'wired up' between the ground and the large Maple tree in our front yard. I went so far as to install two large metal eyelets directly in the trunk of the tree about 12 feet up in the air. I was contemplating running some wire (kind of like the wire I used on the espalier system in the back ) from the eyelets down to some sort of grounding mechanism. My initial thought was to buy one of those spiral metal things that