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Some warm weather across the province this weekend provided plenty of opportunity for homeowners to dust off the Christmas decorations for another winter.
In Saskatoon, look no further than Scott Lambie’s home at 2706 Clinkskill Dr., if lavish Christmas displays are what you’re looking for.
What started as 25,000 lights after his daughter showed him a YouTube video nine years ago has quickly grown to more than 75,000 lights synchronized to music, 21 controllers, 600 LED colour pixels and 100 strobe lights.
“We added every year,” Lambie said of the progressive growth of the sprawling display. “We have a plan — it’s in a book. We follow the plan every year, and then every year we try to improve.”
This year’s improvement was moving and reanimating the massive digital sign, which Lambie said has been a source of frustration for weeks.
Lambie is used to all the attention that comes with having one of the more lit-up homes in Saskatoon.
“We’ve had people come up to our door, and before we had the big sign up, they’d be watching the hockey game outside of the house because we have the big colour TV in the window,” Lambie said with a laugh.
The display becomes far more popular during warm days.
Lambie estimates groups of more than 20 people at a time stand on the sidewalk for a glimpse of the decorations, while cars have been known to line up around the block, turning Clinkskill Drive into a small Enchanted Forest. Lambie’s wife Shelley said she hands out up to 700 candy canes on busy nights.
Lambie is beginning to fashion himself as a local Clark Griswold, especially after a test run of the display this week.
“We were setting up a controller on the tree, and it wouldn’t work. I got out my drill and was going to take off the controller and put on a new one when Shelley said to me, ‘Is it plugged in?’ I looked back at her and said, ‘Do you honestly think I would check all these tiny little lights without making sure it was plugged in?’ ” Lambie said of their exchange that mimicked a scene from the holiday classic film Christmas Vacation.
“She walked over to the side of the house and plugged it in.”
Now that setup is complete, Lambie plans on having the display up from 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m. six days a week until Jan. 3.