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[Bobbie Ireland]

Roadside Secret Santa at it again along NJ highway

By WAYNE PARRY

(AP) LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An annual Christmas mystery is playing itself out again along a busy New Jersey highway.

A Secret Santa is once again surreptitiously hanging ornaments from a large pine tree by the side of the Garden State Parkway in the dead of night.

A gold star was hanging from the boughs of the tree Tuesday morning.

It’s the fourth year in a row that the ornaments have shown up on the same tree in the southbound lanes in a sparsely populated area of Little Egg Harbor Township.

No one has come forward and acknowledged decorating the tree. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which maintains the road, has said it isn’t responsible.

The ornaments appear gradually, starting with one or two, and eventually growing to about a dozen by Christmas.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

[Donna]

Roadside Secret Santa at it again along NJ highway

By WAYNE PARRY

(AP) LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An annual Christmas mystery is playing itself out again along a busy New Jersey highway.

A Secret Santa is once again surreptitiously hanging ornaments from a large pine tree by the side of the Garden State Parkway in the dead of night.

A gold star was hanging from the boughs of the tree Tuesday morning.

It’s the fourth year in a row that the ornaments have shown up on the same tree in the southbound lanes in a sparsely populated area of Little Egg Harbor Township.

No one has come forward and acknowledged decorating the tree. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority, which maintains the road, has said it isn’t responsible.

The ornaments appear gradually, starting with one or two, and eventually growing to about a dozen by Christmas.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

   Funny Bobbie! 

[Bobbie Ireland]

I can just see you... paint roller in one hand... decorations in the other...

[Tokira]

Roadside Secret Santa at it again along NJ highway

By WAYNE PARRY

(AP) LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An annual Christmas mystery is playing itself out again along a busy New Jersey highway.

A Secret Santa is once again surreptitiously hanging ornaments from a large pine tree by the side of the Garden State Parkway in the dead of night.

There is a mid-sized fir tree in the median on Route 7 west of Leesburg, VA, that gets mysteriously decorated each year as well.  If I had more time and money, I'd love to chain a small generator to it and hang lights.  Maybe in a few years, someone will do solar powered ones :-)
Carol
WV

[valhalla]

FYI - That exit off the GSP is at least a 2 (closer to 3) hour drive for Donna!  This is down near Atlantic City.

[Bobbie Ireland]

FYI - That exit off the GSP is at least a 2 (closer to 3) hour drive for Donna!  This is down near Atlantic City.

Awwwww, Janet! This is like telling me there is no Santa!

[Bobbie Ireland]

There is a mid-sized fir tree in the median on Route 7 west of Leesburg, VA, that gets mysteriously decorated each year as well.  If I had more time and money, I'd love to chain a small generator to it and hang lights.  Maybe in a few years, someone will do solar powered ones :-)
Carol
WV

This reminds me of a wonderful childhood memory... a tiny, lighted Christmas tree in a valley off the road we took to back-and-forth between grandparents' houses. Darkness surrounded us - except this little tree. My sisters and I still talk about it when we pass that way. A magical sight.

[Donna]

Roadside Secret Santa at it again along NJ highway

By WAYNE PARRY

(AP) LITTLE EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. - An annual Christmas mystery is playing itself out again along a busy New Jersey highway.

A Secret Santa is once again surreptitiously hanging ornaments from a large pine tree by the side of the Garden State Parkway in the dead of night.

There is a mid-sized fir tree in the median on Route 7 west of Leesburg, VA, that gets mysteriously decorated each year as well.  If I had more time and money, I'd love to chain a small generator to it and hang lights.  Maybe in a few years, someone will do solar powered ones :-)
Carol
WV

They do make solar powered lights and battery!

[Tokira]

They do make solar powered lights and battery!

Yep, but at this point, the expense for enough to sho would be prohibitive, to say nothing of how I'd get  them strung up there...
Still hoping to see it happen though 
Carol
WV

[Donna]

They do make solar powered lights and battery!

Yep, but at this point, the expense for enough to sho would be prohibitive, to say nothing of how I'd get  them strung up there...
Still hoping to see it happen though 
Carol
WV

Cherrypicker! Another BIG expense! 

[Bobbie Ireland]

They do make solar powered lights and battery!

Yep, but at this point, the expense for enough to sho would be prohibitive, to say nothing of how I'd get  them strung up there...
Still hoping to see it happen though 
Carol
WV

Cherrypicker! Another BIG expense! 

See?! Donna has all the gear sorted. So don't tell ME she is not the Secret Santa. Ha!

[Carol P.]

You go Donna!   

[rushhen06]

They do make solar powered lights and battery!

Yep, but at this point, the expense for enough to sho would be prohibitive, to say nothing of how I'd get  them strung up there...
Still hoping to see it happen though 
Carol
WV

  Unfortunately, someone would probably steal the lights & battery !!

[Donna]

You go Donna!   

When 9-11 happened, I put little flags on neighbors lawns. Most took them down. I don't get people. I live in a crazy neighborhood anyway.

[dale]

As someone who has, in the deep past of course , been not uninvolved in similar late-night installations, I highly recommend it; even the humblest handmade ornament in a neutral public place is a good thing, and very fun. Just make sure you're not polluting, overly.