How it Started
Our Christmas light tradition was pretty simple in the beginning with a lighted star of Bethlehem, bush lights, two small blow molds (Santa and Frosty), icicle lights and some lighted wreaths. On/off was by plugging and unplugging extension cords, when we remembered.
2024 – 40 Songs; 22 Controllers (16 RGB); 138 Props
2024 was the introduction of 120 Yard Pixel Stakes (also known as “Peace Stakes”) that made the lawn dance and come to life. To fully appreciate the Pixel Stakes the neighbors field had to be ‘invaded’ with the shifting of the Blasko forest and reindeer deer into.
While the total number of sequences remained steady at a total of 40; 5 sequences were replaced…including Mr. Johnson’s favorite: Little Drummer Boy (Pentatonix version was replaced with the For King and Country that he also did fireworks to in July 2024).
2023 – 40 Songs; 24 Controllers (16 RGB); 133 Props
2023 was a bit of a struggle with medical issues in the Indiana Johnson’s household, but thanks to help from the extended family and neighbors we were able to get it going along with a few upgrades. These upgrades included replacing the traditional bulbs with RGB: large red bows (on the house) and the MegaTree star topper; introducing two new RGB wreaths (HiRes choro props, on the house); and shifting a few props to the pole barn because of some summertime tree removal.
Focus of the sequences was take advantage of the RGB props with 16 sequences refactored.
In the summer of 2023 Indiana Johnson’s Christmas Light Show became a friend of the local Shawnee Theater and sponsored “Legally Blonde the musical” along with putting in a plug for the 2024 season in the Show.
2022 – 40 Songs; 23 Controllers (15 RGB); 130 Props
New props in 2022 include: 6’6″ RGB Pixel Tree with Star on Top (between singing trees and Candy Canes); three HiRes choro props with RGB lights: “Ginger Ken”, “Ginger Mary Ann” (in the Candy Canes), Christmas Ornament (on the pole barn); and an LED wrapped tree! (left of house)
2021 – 38 Songs; 21 Controllers (14 RGB); 125 Props
New props in 2021 included: 5 large RGB Candy Canes; 8 RGB mini-trees; HiRes choro wreaths, lighting up the donation box, and replacing the white LED icicle lights on the house with RGB.
RGB is where you can control the color on each individual light…check it out in the Blue Christmas video with all the BLUE!
The 8 RGB mini-trees are part of the ‘Blasko Forest’! The ‘Blasko Forest’ are the 8 RGB mini-trees dedicated to our always helping neighbor who literally has a forest! A forest is defined as: ‘An environment that is covered by trees over an area of at least 1.2 acres’…you can see some of the real Blasko forest in the upper right of the picture below.
2020 – 36 Songs; 18 Controllers (12 RGB); 109 Props
Can we say Award Winning!! Grand Prize Winner of the Greene County ‘Let Your Lights Shine Holiday Outdoor Decorating Contest’! Facebook link with our interview.
What got everyone talking was the Talking Trees! Also added were 4 large light arches that made the show really pop! The small 36″ blow mold Santa was upgraded to a 60″ blow mold Santa to be more in proportion with the display sprawling across the yard.
2020 Grand Prize Winner!
Greene County ‘Let Your Lights Shine Holiday Outdoor Decorating Contest’
2019 – 35 Songs; 13 Controllers (7 RGB); 103 Props
Snowflakes was the theme! Large 4 foot RGB snowflakes appeared on the roof, more RGB snowflakes in the trees, and the roof line was outlines in big RGB lights.
2018 – 26 Songs; 10 Controllers (4 RGB); 80 Props
With an increase in viewers, came an increase on folks wanting to donate. A Donation box was added with all donations going to WonderLab (a Children’s museum in Bloomington, IN). Other additions included: outlining of the windows with RGB lights, introducing a few RGB snowflakes in the trees, and large ‘gift boxes’ – to hide some of the controllers, along with continuing to replace more older props with LED/RGB props.
2017 – 22 Songs; 7 Controllers (1 RGB); 75 Props
‘The Engineer’ was now in full swing with replacing old light strings with new LED lights and introducing a RGB ‘Megatree’ that can bring animation to Christmas lights. A nativity scene with a drummer boy made its appearance along with some ‘snow balls’ in the trees.
2016 – 13 Songs; 3 Controllers; 44 Props
The beginning of ‘the Engineer’ automating the Christmas lights. Anyone married to an Engineer knows it can never be simply ‘on at dusk/off at dawn’. It was jumping into the deep end of lights synchronized to music.
Christmas Lights synchronized to Music 