Christmas Lights

[CACAdmin]

Ahh! Just finished putting up my outdoor Christmas lights. :biggrin: This is the first year that I did not have them up by December 1st. The first day I ususally turn them on is Dec. 1st... not so this year... it was just too darn cold! :mad: Just wondering (of those who put up outdoor lights) who braved the snow and the cold to do it this year?

Also, do you go all out or have a simple display? Tell us what sort of lighting display you do and include pictures if you can.

As I live in an apartment, I just put lights on the balcony: one string of lights and a Christmas tree I fashioned out of 'rope' lighting.

[Melody]

I don't think that by comparison to some I go all out, but I do like a well-decorated yard. The snow has kept me from doing it quite yet, since a lot of it involves decorating shrubs and so on, but I've decided to broom them off and decorate anyway this week.

I can't believe how quickly the holiday is approaching. Wasn't it just Halloween?

[gudcop]

Was gonna get my Christmas lights up this weekend, but circumstances and a sick kid said otherwise. Don't really go all our, since we are in a townhouse, but a few lights make things at least a little more festive.

[Melody]

Looks like the rain will clean things up for us anyway.

I hope your young-one is feeling better now, Mr. Gudcop.:)

[gudcop]

Well, she is not puking all over the place anymore, so that is a step in the right direction!

[Melody]

ROFL The last time my kid was doing that, I ended up with it in my shoe. He's heaving and trying to apologize at the same time.... lol poor kid. Everytime I made an 'eeewww' face as I cleaned it all up, he'd apologize again, I'd reassure him, and then we'd do the same thing.
Kids are very cute, if somewhat gross, creatures.:biggrin:

[gudcop]

hahaha...my daughter is only a year and a half, so she was on my shoulder at the time, so I got it worse than on my shoe! But that is okay...the things parents will do for their kids!

[Melody]

And the worst part is, we'll look back on it all fondly and wonder where the time went:rolleyes: .

[gudcop]

Hahaha...yup, although I am a few years from the looking back phase yet!

[Melody]

I give up. Between snow and then wind and rain and more wind and more rain, I just didn't bother decorating outside this year. I notice that MANY other people haven't either. I was going to do it yesterday when I heard there was another wind storm coming today and then still another coming Christmas Eve. :mad:

[CACAdmin]

What?!?! You don't want to risk being blown away? Where's your sense of adventure?:laugh:

[Soggybottom]

My folks managed to wrangle me into redoing their lights this year. Since the sun had bleached most of the colour out of the old bulbs (who takes them down every year anyway :biggrin: ) they took advantage of the rebate or whatever it is and got new LED lights. I got six strings of 25 up so far with 2 more to do...

A note for anyone considering the LEDs: (I don't know if they are all the same) one major difference from the incandescents is that the "bulbs" are permanent. You can't unscrew them or change the colour. On the upside they are indestructible compared to the old fragile glass finger-shredders.

Sure glad we have power to run them...I guess a lotta people on the coast are not so lucky.

[Melody]

Thanks for reminding me that I have nothing to whine about when my butt is warm and my stove works. Turns out we didn't even get much for wind and the Christmas Eve storm has been downgraded too. However, I'm not going to dig everything out again.

Thanks for the info on the LED lights - I've been eyeing those.