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'Let's Spread Joy, Not Germs'
Local family shares, spreads joy by dusting off a favorite family tradition By Cindy Aguirre-Herrera
my son's girlfriend is so good at lettering and she is an artist and needed something to do and so she started helping with the signs and my son started helping hauling them out to the yard. So, it just kind of took a life of it's own," said Litchke.
(McQueeney) -- Thanks to a local woman and her family, the narrative of this COVID-19 outbreak is changing. That's because in these days of uncertainty, isolation and social distancing, the family of Lyn Litchke has transformed its front Litchke says every hand crafted wooden lawn into a beacon of hope, laughter and character cutout is a priceless memory for family. the family. That's why she says it's their honor to be sharing them with the rest of In their attempt to get their message out of the community. "Let's Spread Joy, Not Germs," Litchke says her family has dusted off years of "Every year for Christmas, whatever lawn Christmas ornaments -- ornaments movie was coming out, Disney or Pixar, I that have all now been transformed into would do this wood yard art of those some much needed cheer for those who characters and give it a Christmas saying need a break from their homes and who which kind of went with the characters. just want to hop into their cars and drive So, what you are seeing in the yard right pass the McQueeney home for a quick now is 10 years (worth). So, I've kind of stay in your car smile. grouped them by movie sort of speak. So, we just took the Christmas sayings and "We are all sheltering in place here. I said well let's use some of the words that work at Texas State and now we have to are going around with the coronavirus teach online so I'm working from home. about washing your hands and social Both my sons lost their jobs. One works at distancing and sheltering in place and a movie theater in San Antonio and one is finding a cure and then just relate it to living here with me and his girlfriend whatever saying that we already kind of since they both have lost their jobs in San had and just took off the Christmas part," Marcos and so we were just kind of said Litchke. getting all kind of squirrely watching the news and 'oh my gosh, do I have it? Do Litchke says up until this enforcement of you have it?' -- all the things that I'm sure social distancing, her family was always people are going through and we kind of going in a million directions but today, converted part of our garage for them and she says it "has bonded my family back as we were cleaning out the garage, we together." She says not only has it been saw the yard art and we went, 'oh my therapeutic for her family but hopes that gosh! Let's do sayings about the virus' and others can benefit.
"Our latest sign with A Bugs Life was 'Avoid the Bug, the Corona Bug. Wash Your Hands.' So just trying to give it some humor and isn't that kind of something we need right now too? Maybe, we've got to find some laughter, that silver lining. It's certainly has brought my family back together you know. We are dispersed. We get so busy and we have been painting and working on this now for three days -all together because you know we've all been quarantined together. We've all just been around each other and there's just the four of us here," said Litchke. Litchke says just pulling together a bit of happiness for others, in the end, is all worth it. "As we were putting it together, it was so funny to watch people come up and down our street as the movies kept changing and they kept taking on a life of their own. So, now people are taking pictures and we kind of switched from this negative, scared, panic mode to I think the world is going to be okay again. There is something about Disney -- and of course as you know, most Disney movies have a great ending that maybe this is kind of tied into that -- that we are going to end up better than ever before," said Litchke. See DECORATIONS, page 2