His block is now lit.
An Oklahoma man made his street’s Christmas season bright, decorating a score of its houses with lights out of the goodness of his heart.
Last year, Stephen Dunkelberg started a tradition of stringing Christmas lights on his neighbors’ homes on his Bixby, Okla., block.
Before he began the project, only two other houses on the street had lights up, so he set out to change that.
“Whenever I would pull down my street, I’d notice my house, which is one of the first houses, and it was all lit up, and then the rest of the street was pretty dark,” Dunkelberg, 31, told The Post.
“A couple of them just did some [lights] in the bushes and little stuff like that. And I just pictured in my head if every single house had Christmas lights on it, how cool it would be. And I started talking to the neighbors and they all thought it was a cool idea, too.”
The Good Samaritan this year decorated 22 homes, including his, on his street, Stadium Road, with custom-cut lights he hung free of charge.
Dunkelberg in the past owned a landscaping business, so had plenty of extra lights to spare.
“In Oklahoma, we don’t get a lot of snow, so our winter work is Christmas lights,” he said. “So I had a bunch of extra lights that I knew I wasn’t going to use last season.”
Dunkelberg, who now works full time as an accountant at an oil and gas company in Tulsa, worked on the project, which involved over 2,100 bulbs, for two weekends.
“It took me four full days,” he said.
While he was trimming, neighbors, some he never met, would stop and chat with him and bring him provisions.
“Some of them I’ve never talked to before, other ones I had some small talk with,” he said. “I’ve definitely gotten to know all of them a lot better by doing this.”
Last year, two houses missed out on the festivities, but were decorated this year.
“There was one vacant house and one person I couldn’t get a hold of because he was out of town,” he said. “But since then, the vacant house has been filled and I talked to the person that was out of town and he said he was OK with it.”
He plans to keep the tradition going and said he enjoys seeing the fruits of his labor color his neighborhood with holiday cheer.
“As long as I am comfortable climbing up on ladders and roofs, I’ll be up there doing it,” he said. “It doesn’t really get old, every day I pull down the street, I enjoy seeing it every time.”