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'Tis the season...

Castle-Christmas-Card.jpg Heh.  Doing that was surprisingly more labor-intensive than I expected. Wrapping long strings of Christmas lights around a rather heavy cannon tube is more work than I anticipated...

C'mon, how many of you ever expected to read something like "Wrapping long strings of Christmas lights around a rather heavy cannon tube is more work than I anticipated... "

Well, okay, I suppose it was essentially inevitable around here, wasn't it?

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Piece on Earth, Good will Toward all Persons.
 
Castle Howitzer:  "I'll rain death upon you, but hey .... I'll be festive when I do it!"  LOL
 
That's an impresive work of art, Boss.
 
Another "FIRST!" for the Google search, eh?
 
That is awesome!
 
Gives a new meaning to the term 'light artillery'.
 
???You couldn't get the Castle menagerie to string those lights for you???

Have you NOT trained them properly?
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Oh, they're mostly trained, Mark - but they don't have opposable thumbs!
 
Beautiful!

Please publish additional photos from different angles.
 
I like it. More, please.
 
What??
No peeing Santa standing on top, "bringin' da rain" down on our enemies???

For shame, John.  ;-)
 
Um, I've never seen a peeing Santa, Annabelle.  Well, in the alleys after the department store Santas have straggled drunkenly outta the bars...  but otherwise, nope.
 
ohh, shiny.  Very nice. Merry Chrismas to all.
 
A Merry Christmas to all.

Very pretty but I'd say you flunked camo class.
 
Au contraire, Argent!  This is "North American Urban Winter (December only)" camo!
 
John,

I thought it would be more like this, “Peace on Earth or Else!!”

 
Nice! Now, the problem is going to be firing it on Christmas without disrupting the lights.   The South Carolina tradition is fireworks on Christmas. I am eclectic, or is it syncretic, in that I approve of whichever part of anybody's tradition prescribes setting off fireworks on whatever occasion. It is always good to light a candle to Saint Barbara.
 

Geez, JTG - ya don't think I took it out of service, d'you?  Good lord, zombies don't respect Christmas.  I can still sweep the approaches to the Castle, no worries. 

All the while using the "Light Artillery" to spread "Festive Death."

Even if, in the end, that's a bit creepy for Christmas, after all...

 
Uh, are we gonna get a whatsis to play with soon?

 
Um, well, er, heh.  I have been remiss, haven't I?

Careful what you wish for, thogh, Skip.  Sometimes, when I'm just going through the motions, I'll do something like put up something that looks like a cannonball but is, in fact, the ball bearing from the race ring of an Iraqi T-55 that was blown to crap in the Gulf during Bitch Slap 1.
 
John:

One could always TEMPORARILY attach one end of a string of lights to one cat's tail with a tie-wrap, and then set a trained squirrel loose about the armaments...

Carefully detach the lights from the tail when all is said and done, of course.  Even if said tail is connected to the cat who worfed the hairball that...
 
MM, won't work.  Once the light string is attached to said cat's tail, said cat will proceed to do anything and everything in it's power to remove it -- squirrels, trained or not, (or mice, or laser beams) being in the near proximity notwithstanding.

Not that I would have any personal knowledge of such.  That's just the 'word on the street'.
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Hmm. Might take some skillfull photography to capture the muzzle flash at night while still showing the lights. Maybe Beth knows how to do that.  They do say nitroguanidine makes less of a flash.