If there is one thing that might make this Christmas season at our Modern farm our best yet , it is that Santa has once again arrive home – and now remain to have a bun in the oven on a 10 long family custom that dates way back to the other 1970 ’s !
Everyone has their favored puerility memories of Christmas decorations . A peculiar tree that was always lit up in your town – a breathless holiday light show at a local establishment – or perhaps you had a neighbor impersonating Clark Griswold attempting to light up his house with 100,000 + Christmas lights .
For me , it was a vast 8′ Santa Claus that my dad would set up in front of our barn each and every Christmas season . And believe it or not – that exact Santa still lives on today – now proudly waving to all that go by our farm during the vacation season .
Santa Claus is back! Now some 50+ years old, this Santa has been a family tradition since the early 70’s.
Back in the other 1970 ’s , not long after my parents had ramp up their new home in the land – my daddy was given a sort of “ housewarming gift ” from one of his teachers at the unproblematic school where he serve well as a principal .
The present tense was a large , beautifully paint 8′ improbable wooden Santa Claus with a big waving welcoming deal . Santa was made from a heavy duty 2x 4 frame and a thick 4′ x 8′ sheet of plyboard . As a youthful 4 to 5 year sure-enough at the time – he seemed larger than life !
Santa Comes Home To The Farm – Keeping A Decades Long Family Tradition Alive
Dad found the perfect topographic point for Santa – right hand between a solidifying of two vernal pine tree tree that he had planted in front of his b . And each and every twelvemonth after that – he would head out and set him up , placing a big limelight in front of him to light him up for all that passed by .
Santa became sort of a watershed in our neck of the woods at Christmas time . He also served as a great way to give directions to those come up to our house out in the country .
I ca n’t tell you how many clip my parents or my brothers and sisters gave out these simple directions to someone coming out to our house during the holiday season : “ just get over the hill and our house is the one on the right field with the braggy Santa in front of the b . ”
Santa also spent a few years at the top of our old farm – he was a struggle to keep up out in the open!
I also ca n’t tell you how many times we had to go out and deposit Santa . When you hold up in the country , a big 8′ marvelous wooden Santa is not exactly a honorable match for wintertime wind . And at least twice a week we would hear the familiar “ Santa ’s Down ” call from someone , letting my papa know it was fourth dimension to channelise out and prop up him back up !
After my don passed by in 1983 – my blood brother and I continued on the tradition of setting him up in front of the b . By the mid to late 80 ’s , what were once two near 5′ pine trees on either side of Santa had grown to become two towering 60′ trees . But Santa still stood tall every Christmas – well , usually !
I remember many times when my brother and I would think we had him totally secured . And the next first light , short Santa would be lie flat on his back . All in all , Santa always came through with take flight colors . It did , however , make us bring in how problematic it was for dad to get him to stay up !
I think everyone of my family member have in one room or another helped continue Santa ’s custom . A few have repainted him a dyad of times . And all of us have helped to localize him back up at one spot or another .
In the mid to late 2000 ’s , Santa spend metre outside of a few of my sib house . All along , maintain the family tradition alive and well .
In 2011 , Mary and I actually took down the old b Santa had once stood in front of all of those years ago . We then put it back up on our first farm . And Santa made the misstep as well to be - reunited with the barn once again . In the summer of 2021 when we moved to the new farm – Santa , of course , came along too .
Santa in front of our barn at the old farm in 2017. At the end of his “duties” that year, he was refurbished again with a good sanding and repainting.
Unfortunately , at that degree – there was no barn or even a building yet at the raw farm . But while we built , Santa stay safe and sound in a storage container . Of course , just waiting for the day he would once again wave to all who hap by .
And so it is that once again this year – Santa is back ! And hopefully for a very farseeing meter at the Modern farm . With years does amount a fiddling wiseness . We now put Santa up and confiscate him to the two big barn threshold in front of our house . And there , he proudly and sturdily waves to all that go by .
I have to let in , whenever we give directions to the farm to anyone in December – I almost always add together “ just come around the bend and our sign of the zodiac is the one on the left with the Big Santa in front of the b doorway ” .
For sure , it always couch a smile on my face . No one is happy that Santa has come home to the new farm ! Merry Christmas – Jim & Mary .
Jim and Mary Competti have been spell gardening , DIY and formula article and rule book for over 15 year from their 46 Akka Ohio farm . The two are frequent speakers on all things gardening and erotic love to jaunt in their trim time .
Santa Claus is back! Now some 50+ years old, this Santa has been a family tradition since the early 70’s. He now stays nice and sturdy – ready to greet all who drive by!
