OT Christmas lights

[Young Ed]

Hello All, It's that time of year again.

The Mrs. has been on my case to get the Christmas lights up for a couple of weeks.

They are up now and for some reason she will not talk to me.

[1940plymouth]

Be careful, there is nothing like the WRATH of a woman:)

[randroid]

Ed,

Looks good to me.

-Randy

[LAKOTA169]

You did check them to be sure they would all light, didn't you?

[Plymouthy Adams]

a man after my own heart...I think I got burnt out on Christmas about 6 years back never to fully recover...

[Don Coatney]

Young Ed;

Have her call me. I will fix all your problems. You do trust me dont you:confused:

[Young Ed]

Don of course I trust you but jeez I must have misplaced your number

[Don Coatney]

Don of course I trust you but jeez I must have misplaced your number

Future POC Presidents must never forget numbers. You best look deeper:cool:

[Young Ed]

I didn't say I forgot it. Its misplaced. You can misplace things intentionally right?

[Dennis Hemingway]

Young Ed, Just hang a flag like mine next to it. LOL

Dennis:D

[blueskies]

Ed-

Thanks for the laugh...

Reminds me of the year my wife "had" to have the Icicle lights around our porch. She bought the boxes and boxes of these lights, and it was my job to put them up...

After removing nearly a thousand twist ties from all the lights, and trying to straighten out all the dangly wires, and getting out the ladder, and getting the ladder stuck in the snow bank repeatedly, and after losing the feeling in my fingers, and after running cords everywhere because only three or four strands could be plugged in in series, and after replacing those damn teeny fuses in the end of the plugs for half the strands because I had already tried to plug them all in together anyway, I finally got the damn things up.

When I plugged them in, I found that about half of them worked half of the time, because straightening out the dangly wires so they would dangle made them short out. Depending on which way the wind blew, some of them were on, or off.

A few days later, we had a warm day, and the snow melted on the roof long enough to cause real icicles that ran down over the lights. The ice was heavy, so I tried to bust off one of the larger icicles that was hanging on the wires, and like dominos, the lights came off the roof all the way around the house and landed in the yard, blinking off and on.

At that point, I decided the hell with it, we didn't need lights for christmas.

I left them in the snow bank till spring when the snow melted, and tossed them.

Ever since, our lights have looked alot like your picture above, and my wife still isn't sure why. :D

Pete

[Reg Evans]

Great posts guys ! I'm glad to learn that I'm not the only Grinch here.

Ed's post inspired me to start a poll on the subject.

Besides the hanging of Christmas lights my wife has a special request this year for the tree because we have 3 new kitties living with us now.

She wants me to remove the mounted deer head and rig up a tree above the door out of reach of these little vandals.

My idea of setting up the slide projector with a slide of last years tree didn't go over very well.

[Plymouthy Adams]

maybe you ought to approach her with your sudden desire to help out planet earth by "going green" this year

[1947PLEVY]

Ed:

I like your artistic capabilities. I put some up last year and this year I misplaced my ladder.. I told the wife that I think I loaned it out..LOL..

Everyone have a safe and Happy Holiday Season.

God Bless Us All..

John 47Plevy

[anthonyb]

With a string of lights and a garland Ol' Bambi will work just the same as a tree there, Reg!

[Don Coatney]

Ed:

I like your artistic capabilities. I put some up last year and this year I misplaced my ladder.. I told the wife that I think I loaned it out..LOL..

Everyone have a safe and Happy Holiday Season.

God Bless Us All..

John 47Plevy

Hold on John;

It must be your ladder in my garage. I will call your wife and she can have you pick it up real soon!

[Don Coatney]

Reg;

Usually I reserve this comment for special occasions

involving not you but (uh well um you get my drift) that

is a realy nice rack:cool:

[55 Fargo]

Hello All, It's that time of year again.

The Mrs. has been on my case to get the Christmas lights up for a couple of weeks.

They are up now and for some reason she will not talk to me.

Ed, I had this forwarded to me at work from a Co-worker, so it's getting around on both sides of the border......Fred

[randroid]

Reg,

An alternative might be to ask her to stand in the living room and, while she is focusing on where the tree should be, have her tell you what time it is. Once she gets it right you'll be happy to have further discussion about the tree.

-Randy

[Reg Evans]

Reg;

Usually I reserve this comment for special occasions

involving not you but (uh well um you get my drift) that

is a realy nice rack:cool:

Say Don.....do ya still have that fuzzy pair you had dangling from your rear view mirror ? They might look nice hanging from the rack.

On second thought .....I'd just better stick with AnthonyB's garland idea. Thanks for the ideer anthony.

[Frank Elder]

The clock that is closest to lunchtime is always right! :D

[1947PLEVY]

Don:

I was wondering where it went, but since you've had it a while. Possession is 9/10 of the law, so go ahead and keep it.

John 47Plevy