Ok... so it seems like we spent a greater part of December trying to get our Christmas tree lights working. We have a wonderful fakeulous (my new word to say that it is both fabulous and fake) tree. The only catch is that this tree does not come with it's own lights.
Rory is our resident tree lighting expert. He is ... shall we say... a meticulous tree light stringer. The tree things he strives for are #1 A good amount of lights.... no skimping on the lights! #2 A very even distribution of lights. #3 If possible the same kind of lights on the whole tree.
Phase 1
Rory went to town putting up the lights with the lights we had left over from last year. Unfortunately they only covered the bottom fourth of the tree.
Phase 2
Off to the store he went to get more lights. He returned, put them up, but they did not cover the last fourth of the tree.
Phase 3
Back to the store. He came home with two more boxes only to discover that he grabbed the wrong ones. The boxes he brought home had white cording rather than green.
Phase 4
Ask the neighbor...By the way.... we live really far out... going to the store is a BIG deal. Our neighbors gladly let us borrow their lights with the promise that we would pick some more up for them in town. BUT their lights were different than the rest of our lights, AND much more expensive.
Phase 5
Return lights to the neighbors, and back to the store to exchange the white ones and get more of the cheap lights we had been using.
Phase 6
Back home to finish the tree! And we're done.... so we think! We only needed one more so we put the other strand in the storage shed with the other Christmas boxes.
Phase 7
About a week later the strands from last year burnt out! So, as a snow storm descended on the house Rory went back out to the shed to get the lights. Then came the task of unwinding and restringing.
Phase 8
Leave the tree up until almost February!
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