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jammed the bones of the arm into his shoulder and spine leaving him with hands that constantly shake, constant headaches and an inability to sleep more than two or three hours a night.
Catherine has been diagnosed with macular degeneration and has lost much of her eyesight. She says all the Christmas lights look like a white blur to her but she can still see the main colors in the colored light displays.
In the face of this Sinnott still says, “Where there’s a will there’s a way. I want to put up these lights because I want my wife to see as much as she can. I’ll do anything for her.”
In the past Hugo and Catherine put up all the decorations on their own, but in the last two or three years they have counted on the help of their daughter, Erika, who has already gotten two minor shocks from working with the lights this year.
The Sinnott’s receive a lot of their decorations from a company that sends them defunct toys and lights. The Sinnotts are often able to fix the problem and use the decoration in their yard displays.
Each year they try to take down all the ornaments, but this year they still had some out when an ice storm hit May 7 causing severe damage to the decorations. Along with the recent downpours the county has been experiencing the Sinnotts say they have had some setbacks decorating this year.
Nevertheless they are still working to put up more and more lights which will be up until around Jan. 6 the time they turn the lights off evexy year.
“When Christmas is over we like to turn the window figurines to face the inside of the house so that we can enjoy them ourselves,” says Sinnott.
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