X-Mas Lights!

After a couple year hiatus, I decided this year (aka had the money too) to put up Christmas lights again. I think that I put up quite a show. There are 37 strands of lights, 2 lighted deer, a snowman, 4 sections of white lighted fence, a lighted arbor, and a spiral lighted tree. I was able to get the entire house outlined in lights, all the bushes lighted, and hung some snowflakes in one of the trees. It is so bright that the entire corner of the block that my house is on is lit up. This is the second best time of year next to Halloween. The inside of the house is also being decorated, though most of those decorations are sitting in piles around the dinning room right now.

The lights took quite a bit of time to put up. I worked on hanging them all of last weekend, and a few hours twice during last week and yesterday. And to be honest I will probably put some more up next weekend. I was actually able to stick to a plan so I was able to use half as many power cords this year. So that was nice. Also I found some really cool timers that have light sensors on them. You just tell the timer how many hours to stay on after dark and the lights come on at dusk for that many hours.

Well this was supposed to be an update a week and a half ago…. But obviously I forgot. Just a quick update though – I didn’t put up any more lights. But I do plan to buy some on sale this week for next year!