Casey Brown will be decorating his childhood home in Christmas lights, like he does every December.
Brown’s yard is decorated with every kind of tree: real, spiral, rope LED, color changing, cardboard, rainbow, striped and otherwise. Plus an array of animals, real and imagined, with a hippo, giant chipmunk, abominable snowman, Spider-Man, unicorn, reindeer and more. Spider-Man may not technically be an animal, but Brown has one, behind the white crystal tree with a rainbow strand of LED lights.
Brown joins countless others in Kootenai County decorating to the nines, with millions of bulbs and miles of strands.
The city of Rathdrum had its first round of judging Dec. 10 for “Deck the Homes,” so homes in the Majestic Park and Thayer Park neighborhoods are already dressed to impress.
The second round of judging will be Dec. 17, and Rathdrum residents are ready and waiting for spectators. Winners of Rathdrum’s best light displays in a number of categories will be announced Dec. 21.
To see the Rathdrum route of festive homes, the map is available at www.rathdrum.org/rec.
If you’ve turned your own home into a holiday Lite-Brite, or you know of other homes with especially well-decked halls, the Coeur d’Alene Press wants to hear from you.
Whether it’s in the style of a Griswold family Christmas, a tasteful thieving Grinch display, or anything in between, we want to know where to guide holiday gawkers.
Homes in Rathdrum on display for judges are at the following street intersections:
• Gipper Loop and West Irish Drive
• North Tender and Saloon streets
• Trestle Street and Majestic Avenue
• Voyager Street and Majestic Avenue
• West Soldier Creek and Majestic avenues
• Majestic Avenue between Radcliff and Thayer streets
• North Halley and Elmberry avenues
• Tombstone and Silverado streets
• East Winchester Street and North Heather Lane
• Wright and Pine Streets
• Pine and Ohio streets
• Ohio Street and Boekel Road
• Boekel Road and Cassia Street
• Parkway and Larch streets
• Heritage and Theo streets
Send photos and addresses of great holiday displays throughout the county to jsnow@cdapress.com.
Have lights, will travel
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