Dode's giant heart

A few years ago, Dode built a giant heart from PVC pipes and Christmas lights.  In case you're wondering how you too can have an enormous heart in a tree next to your house, here's some photos.

Look closely, do you see the heart in the tree?

The heart is hanging in the tree by a rope and pully.  The pully stays up year round and when it's time for the heart or our giant Christmas tree, it gets lowered to attach things to it.  The rope is attached to the black pipe.

Dode went through all our strands of Christmas lights and stole all the red ones.  He taped the all red strand to the PVC pipes.

The bottom of the PVC pipes is held together with a couple of dry wall screws and the lights are taped onto the pipes.

To form the heart shape, the PVC pipes are bend down to the cross piece of pipe where they are screwed on.

See the black pipe?  The two pieces of white pipe are screwed to it along the outside arc of the heart and at the inside point. 

Once the cross brace is unscrewed, everything stores flat in the rafters of the garage.

Here is the heart in all its glory.  It's suprising how many people we run in to who have seen our heart. 

Dode also hangs it for our anniversary in November.