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Mykayla Bluhm-Slater (left), Stephanie Bluhm, Adeline Lloyd and Toby Lloyd stand in front of the Christmas lights Toby finished Nov. 27 at his house on Main Street in Foley. Everybody played an important role in perfecting the display.

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FOLEY – At the intersection of Christmas spirit and technology sits Toby Lloyd, the Christmas light connoisseur whose property illuminates the 600 block of Main Street in Foley throughout the holiday season. After taking last year off, Lloyd finds it more important than ever to give people a safe and fun holiday activity through his Christmas lights.

The multi-thousand dollar lighting display is as labor intensive as it is extraordinary. While Lloyd believes his lights peril in contrast to other displays, many Foley residents believe his Christmas setup is a sight to behold. Lloyd has won the city’s Christmas lighting contest twice.

“I just like making people happy,” Lloyd said. “Anything I can do to bring a smile to somebody else’s face, that’s what it really comes

down to.”

It started with a viral YouTube video that piqued his interest.

The video, now 11 years old and with millions of views, showed a house with traditional Christmas lights – maybe a little more than usual – but the lights were perfectly synced to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra tune. Lloyd was drawn to the video, and not too long after in November 2010, he bought his first controller – which operates up to 16 channels of lights.

Ten years and a couple thousand dollars later, Lloyd owns eight controllers, the same device interface, 16 strands of lights that he forms into a tree, 12 candy canes, eight snowflakes, 17 strands of LED lights for around the windows of his house, and an FM signal transmitter to sync his light display to the radio.

He estimates about 35 hours of labor goes into set up, including help from his nephews Noah and Isaiah Weekes.

Lloyd also gets help from his girlfriend, Stephanie Bluhm, and her daughter, Mykala Bluhm-Slater.

Lloyd and Bluhm’s daughter, Adeline, who is only 3 years old, plays an important role in making sure the aesthetic fits just right.

The work involves setting up infrastructure and decorations, and ensuring bulbs are working. Lloyd spends a few hours sequencing his light show, which synchronizes his lights to radio music. It is meticulous work, but Lloyd thinks the hours and resources poured into the display makes every minute of labor worth it in the end.

“It’s a sense of accomplishment, and as much as I complain about it at the time, it helps me work through problems,” Lloyd said. “At my core, I’m a problem solver.

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When the lights and decorations are set up and plugged in, Lloyd calls it “Lights on Main.”

Lloyd has a lot of hobbies. He also decorates for Halloween and home brews 5-gallon jugs of root beer to bring to celebrations. He has a hard time nailing down his favorite past-time activity, but he enjoys bringing happiness in the ways he best knows how, whether through homemade root beer, scary Halloween antics or extravagant Christmas lights.

“This whole thing just started off with me ordering some cool tech and making some lights blink,” Lloyd said. “I just, kind of, kept on adding to it as I got bored with the previous display.”

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Toby Lloyd plugs in each of his many light-up candy canes to ensure they all work Nov. 25 at his house on Main Street in Foley. Lloyd and his two nephews worked throughout the day to organize the lighting equipment and set up infrastructure.

technology spurred the light show, but the people who stop to look at the display, the smiles he generates and, above all, his family are what motivate him to keep going.

“This,” Lloyd said, propping up his phone to display the wallpaper, which features a silhouette of his youngest daughter peering through a car window in awe of the lights. “This is why I do it.”

While his family

today motivates him to keep going, it was his grandfather who initiated a profound passion for technology and all the possibilities that come with it – especially when it comes to Christmas.

Lloyd said his grandfather, Malcolm Cross, was an innovator way ahead of his time.

Cross, who lived in the same house that Lloyd lives in today, built a device in the 1950s that automatically pairs light with music, now called

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a color organ. Cross incorporated the color organ into his Christmas tree lights, which was so unheard of at the time that one of his neighbors thought his tree was on fire when plugged in.

“He was absolutely a huge source of inspiration,” Lloyd said.

“He’s a massive, massive part of who I am and how I am with all these wires and whatnot.”

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Just starting to put the lights together to form into a Christmas tree, Toby Lloyd and his nephew, Isaiah Weekes, organize 16 strands of lights Nov. 25 at Lloyd’s house on Main Street in Foley. Prior to getting the lights hooked into place, Weekes made sure every strand of light was operational.

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This year, with the onset of the novel coronavirus and after taking last year off, Lloyd felt a renewed sense of commitment to his Christmas lights. Not only is it important to him that he gives Adeline the proper holiday experience, but he knows how many people are cooped up in their houses

wanting something to safe to do.

“This year was different with COVID,” he said. “I felt it was important to have it up and running just because of the environment.”

Even though he just finished with this year’s set up, Lloyd said he is seeing some familiar and unfamiliar faces stop by his house. He even sees the same Foley resident nearly every day driving by to see the display.

As for the future,

Lloyd wants to continue improving and adding to his display. He plans on making upgrades so he has more control to program the lights how he sees fit and to add variation, but it will likely cost him an extra thousand dollars.

“If I’ve still got those people that come by and watch it, and they bring their grandkids and they still love it, then I’ll keep plugging away,” Lloyd said. “It’s why I do what I do.”

A tangled heap of lights sit in a storage container Nov. 25 at Toby Lloyd’s house on Main Street in Foley. Lloyd used the day to organize and prepare for setup.

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Gods birthday and get a tree and get some presents.

Dear Santa, My name is Brielle. I am in the 2nd grade. Here Dear Santa, is a summary of what Christmas means to me. My name is Colton. I am in the 2nd grade. Here Chriistmas is so fun to me because I get to put is a summary of what Christmas means to me. up the Christmas tree!

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Holiday Greetings Dear Santa, My name is Brody. I am in the 2nd grade. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

Christmas is not abot presents it is abot speteny your tiy with your famley. Marey Christmas with all the joy.

Dear Santa, My name is Evelyn. I am in Kindergarten. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

I get presents.

Dear Santa, My name is Briggs. I am in Kindergarten. Here Dear Santa, is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

My name is Jessie. I am in the 2nd grade. Here Jolliness. is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

Christmas is the best bay evre because i. get to Dear Santa, go to Disney. WOOOOOOOah. My name is Ada. I am in Kindergarten. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

Dear Santa, Getting presents.

My name is Marshall. I am in the 2nd grade.

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Dear Santa, My name is Jaxson. I am in the 2nd grade. Here Dear Santa, is a summary of what Christmas means to me. My name is Elizabeth. I am in Kindergarten.

Christmas means i get presens and i get a ve- Here is a summary of what Christmas means rey spesol iscrem. to me. Snowflakes.

Dear Santa, My name is Landon. I am in the 2nd grade.

Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me. That I get to get presents. Christmas means to me I get to put a Christmas tree.

Dear Santa, My name is Grace. I am in the 2nd grade. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

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Dear Santa, My name is Levi. I am in Kindergarten. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

Presents.

Dear Santa, My name is Tucker. I am in Kindergarten. Here is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

Jesus Birth.

Dear Santa, My name is James. I am in Kindergarten. Here Dear Santa, is a summary of what Christmas means to me.

My name is Abigail. I am in Kindergarten. Here Jesus was born. Spending time with my family. is a summary of what Christmas means to me. Getting to open presents.

Jesus, Presents, Rudolph, Santa, Christmas, Decorations, God.

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