I helped DH hang twinkle icicle lights on the house today. We put the new LED ones on the front peak that faces the road. Then we put the non LED ones along the length of the house that is technically the front of the house, though it sits sideways on the property, around the porch and then we still have to do one more string to finish the last length, but we ran out of light. We won't have them on this soon but DH leaves for Alaska tomorrow night and won't be back until the 12th or 13th. I can do everything else myself, but not the gutters. Well, I could, but I really don't want to.
We also got all the Christmas stuff down from the 2nd floor of the shed so I can set everything up easily at my leisure.
We did go to town again today and get some more gutter clips and some cable, 2 50 foot lengths and 2 25 foot lengths and we will run these through our standing displays and lock them around the huge cedar trees. We were robbed last Christmas, someone took $90 worth of our lights right off our apple tree. We caught them in the act, but they took off and had already gotten most of the stuff off the tree. We managed to save two. They were those big ball lights they had at Lowe's a few years ago that had fifty lights each and were in really unique jewel tone colors and they don't carry them anymore. I was really mad I couldn't replace them, but in retrospect they were huge energy hogs no matter how pretty they were.
We also ate dinner out, an unplanned spend. Hopefully that is the last of those for awhile.
Hanging Lights
November 20th, 2006 at 07:10 am
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I love the holiday and I know the lights cost but it brings me a great jot to have the house decorated so!
I am sorry to hear that folks stole some of your Christmas stuff. It has happened around here with figurines and those new blow up Santas and such!
November 20th, 2006 at 08:38 pm 1164055122
November 21st, 2006 at 05:00 am 1164085257
Jan--People like that are the same ones who smash your pumpkins on Halloween. I wish they would think about the little kids they are hurting.
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