Christmas lights are up (1 Viewer)

[Shawn Sefranek]

I spent about 4-hours today playing “monkey man” up on the roof of my house and climbing various length ladders.
I hooked up 20 or so sets of those hanging “icicle” lights, extension cords & various timers.
I figured I would do it early this year because the weather was relatively warm today and I didn’t have anything on the schedule.
See all the fun you condo & apartment dwellers are missing.

Anybody else here go through this family ritual every year ???
Shawn S
PS…. I always have visions of Chevy Chase with the staple gun when I am up there.

 

[Chuck C]

Hey man....I strung some lights in my dorm today! You gotta love Wal-Mart for cheap, pretty, and plentiful x-mas lights. This year, I bought blue/white icicles and multi-colored-regular strand.
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[Chad Isaacs]

Hey!i live in an apartment and I put lights out today.I wraped them all the way around the fence,along the bottom of the patio above and then...there is this post in the middle of the patio,its a 4x4 supporting the patio.Well,I wrapped about 6 strings around it,next time I make it to walmart I am going to get a few strings of green and make the post into the trunk and the green will be branches of a christmas tree.
I also have another plan.I want to get a 4x8 sheet of plywood,get some red,white,blue and gold strings.make a big flag the gold will be the border...I should probably paint the board first too..
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[Neil Joseph]

I never seemed to get into decorating the outside of my house with lights. My idea of decorating is shining 3 various colour spotlights against the outside of the house and maybe put an angel or something like that. 5 minutes to set up and take down.
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[Trevor Schell]

I spent three days setting up mine.
All done before it snows.
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[Peter_A]

Argh, X-mas lights!
That means Christmas is just around the corner..........I despise Christmas.

 

[Ron-P]

My dad taught me everything I know about exterior illumination.

Everytime Xmas rolls around I think of that line
Mine go up this coming weekend, Friday to be exact.
Peace Out~

 

[BryanZ]

Lesser of the evils here.
1. Put up the lights.
2. Go shopping.
3. Visit a theme park.
Methinks option #3 is the way to go (at least for right now ).

 

[Dave Barretto]

Shawn -- Thanks for the update on the lights -- Do you have any of the X10 devices hooked up so they automatically turn on & off, and save you the trip of plugging & unplugging the strings from the outside???
The power Co has issued an advisement " Tree cutting will not be allowed until the xmas season is over"
Seems that someone has caused some power outages in your area -- were you affected??

 

[Shawn Sefranek]

The power Co has issued an advisement " Tree cutting will not be allowed until the xmas season is over"
Seems that someone has caused some power outages in your area -- were you affected??

Dave……YOU WISE ASS !!!!!
Might this be what you are referring to ???
Sorry, I don’t have pictures of the most recent power line “incident”.
Shawn S

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[Dave Barretto]

Yes I believe this is the one --- I like the little orange things in the road -- Do they light up.
Hey no pics of the Big Red Trucks? or the B &W 's