Well, you know. I think Walmart has had Christmas stuff on display since the end of August. City workers here have been putting up Christmas decorations on the light poles. Stores have been advertising their "Black Friday Sales" since before Veteran's Day.
We have a family tradition of sorts: I generally put up our outdoor lights the weekend after Thanksgiving. We decorate in the house on December 2nd (our anniversary). There have been some variations of those times over the years, but it depends on where we are - we have spent Christmas in our different RVs over the years, as well.
Since we moved away from the frozen northland, and into our little cottage home, we have set up a small Christmas tree. It has been good in the RVs, but seemed a bit small in the house. Last year, after Christmas, Joan found a good buy on a tall, slender Christmas tree - a good fit for our house. We did pull it out and partially set it up when we got it, but we haven't seen it in all its glory. Since Thanksgiving is late this year, we decided to get into the Christmas spirit right now.
Joan got the bins of Christmas stuff out of our storage area, and I tested lights to confirm that they are working... only one set that went to the garbage. So far. We did pick up a couple sets of white and blue lights last year, as well.
The process on our deck took a couple hours, but the railing is decorated with the blue and white lights, set of icicle lights, and white rope light at the floor. A green wreath with lights is the centerpiece.
Nothing says "decorating for Christmas" light pizza. Joan mentioned going out for pizza for lunch, and that became a firm plan. Russo's, and it was great.
When we got back, she pulled the new Christmas tree out and started getting it set up...
She is behind there, somewhere. We have plenty of ornaments for it, and that will be my job when Joan is done with the assembly. I'll be anxious to see what Rufus does with a tree in the house. He didn't bother the small one at all last year, but it did sit on an end table.
The tree is pre-lit; gotta like that. The lights can be all white, multi-color, or morphing between those. I got to put on a bunch of ornaments that haven't been on display in a while. I like how it looks...
After dark...
Fa la la la la, la la la la. ;-)
2 comments:
Did the Christmas Light String Knot Gremlin visit while the Lights were stored?
I try to store our Light Strings neatly-- But the Knot Gremlin seems to show up anyways..
Hi Kent - We beat the knot gremlin this year, with each separate string neatly coiled and secured with a tie-wrap. The new ones we added didn't come out of the box so easily, though. ;-)
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