Merry and bright
The Coulter family’s yard turns into a winter wonderland during the holidays, but there’s a lot of work that goes into it behind the scenes.
COURTESY PHOTO/THE COULTER FAMILY
Santas, reindeer, snowmen and other Christmas icons fill the Coulter yard. Across the street, their neighbor James Hash prefers Star Wars characters with a dash of Peanuts. It’s all what you love, he said.
The Coulters take the opportunity to collect donations for the Boys and Girls Club at their yard display. This year the display includes 75 inflatables, 30 walk-through arches and roughly 15,000 electric lights. “The PUD likes us,” Alan Coulter joked.
When the weather doesn’t cooperate, the Coulters and the Hashes just shut down the power and wait for things to improve. Here the inflatables in the Coulter yard wait for the pre-Thanksgiving ice storm to pass.
MOSES LAKE — Now that the Halloween and Thanksgiving holidays are over, it’s time to prepare for the big one. For a lot of us, Christmas decorating means setting up the tree, dusting off the Nativity scene and maybe hanging some twinkling lights around the front window. But some folks like to take decorating to a whole different level, with lights upon lights upon lights and inflatable figures of every variety that can turn a neighborhood into a winter wonderland. For those who go full Griswold, there’s a lot of work that goes into it.
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