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If you are visiting our display and you see white lites down the left side of the house, outlining a path, be sure to check out the surprise in the backyard. It is only on when we are at home.
The 2009 display is done and on..
Lights go on daily from 5PM to 11PM December 1st to December 31st..
We will post new pictures of this years display soon.
Many people have asked about leaving donations to help off set the hydro costs this year. We are not asking for donations but any are appreciated and will go towards the light display. These can be made by whatever means you want from depositing in the mail box to sending on line via this link.
Any donations over and above what we need to light this will be donated to the Canadian Crohns Society, as my brother who was killed suffered from Chrons disease.
Our family has been decorating our home for the holidays for more than 30 years. It all started in Calgary, Alberta, Canada when my dad started to string up a few lights on the house. Every year we would add additional strings of lights.
Our family moved to Burlington, Ontario, Canada in 1977. We continued to put up lights but for some reason Dad's interest in the lights seemed to fade. That was when I decided to take an interest in decorating the house. It started with a few strings outlining the house. Next a few wired form reindeers were added. When we noticed that people would stop and look at the lights e realized that we weren't the only ones who enjoyed Christmas lights. That gave us the spark to get things really going.
We first decided to not only outline the house but also to "fill in" the outlines. We wanted to keep the lights different from everyone else so decided to start custom building our own figures to decorate with.
Dad got a welder and started bending steel and welding it into forms which we had drawn on paper. We then attached lights on the wire frames to bring the figures to life.
Every year we added more figures. In 1997 I decided to animate some of the figures with a light controller used by DJs. We got a dragon to wag its tail, soldiers to salute, wheels to spin and fire to leave the dragon's mouth and even a melting snowman. 2002s addition makes use of animation in a unique way.
On May 16th, 1998, our son Cam was killed in a terrible accident by no fault of his. We debated not doing the display as it would be a sad Christmas without Cam. After much thought we decided rather than not do the display we would do it and add a special tribute to Cam, an animated Harley Davidson Motorcycle.
This was the most difficult figure done to date. I downloaded a picture of a Harley from Harley Davidson's web site and converted it to a 2D outline with PhotoShop. We printed this and used it as the pattern for our motorcycle.
To see how this was done click the
motorcycle 
For a web page devoted to Cam click Cam's
picture: 
Why do we got to all the work of putting up these lights? Well, if no one came to see them we would stop doing them. We do it as a celebration of Christmas. We do it to give something back to our community. We do it to bring smiles on people's faces. Contrary to what many may think, we do not do it for the publicity. I personally shy away from the publicity and let Dad take the lime-light. After all it was Dad who started the tradition of the Musson.
Why Don't We Have Charities Collecting Money at the Display
We have been approached over the years with a very large number of people asking if we would support them collecting money for charity in front of our display. We certainly support the giving to charities but we felt that if we said okay to one group we would have to say okay to another. We have therefore said "No" to all charities wanting to collect moneys or sell goods at our display and have discouraged people from doing so.
Also, this is a time of giving and we do this display to give to the people who come to see the display. We feel like any attempt to capitalize on our display either for charity of other, takes away from the gift we give of lights to the people in this area. We want to have something people can approach to see without feeling obligated in any way to make donations.
Where is the display?? When is it on??
The display is located at 3360 SPRUCE AVENUE in Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Burlington is located 30 minutes from Toronto and 30 minutes from Niagara Falls. To get here go to the QEW and exit Walkers Line. You then head South (towards the lake) on Walkers line and when you get to Spruce Ave, turn right. Go along Spruce Ave. until you see the school on your right hand side and the display is located right across from the school. If you are going to stop, please go into the school parking lot and PLEASE watch for children crossing the street.
The lights are on from December 1st to the last weekend after New Years Day from 5PM to 11 PM on weekdays and 5PM to midnight on weekends.
Doug Musson
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2009 pictures coming soon
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Many people have asked about the Star Spheres we have hanging from our tree. I have decided to import these next year and make them available to anyone interested. If you are interested click here to go to the supplier pager.
Click here to find out how we do it! Also includes more pictures!!
