One week away....

Only one week away.. Christmas..

7 shopping days left..

Glad mine is all done..  and to

be honest, I will be glad to get it

over with..

I guess I am a real bah, humbug, type

of Christmas person.. Like I say, Christmas

without kids around is kind of boring to me.

Most of my decorating is outside.. and today

was no exception.. We took down the lights

on the house this past summer, when we

painted the house. So today, I replaced them.

My daughter was over Monday and said it

looks kind of dark out.. even with the fence

lights and the hunting snowman.  Then it

dawn on me.. I forgot to put up the house

eave lights.  Worse was, I was beating myself

up, as I do all that in August.  Why you ask?

Because August is warmer than December.

So I was putting up the new lights. I figured

if I could use the broom to put the lights on the

old hooks that are up there, it should go pretty

good and I wouldn't have to go up and down the

ladder. 

That plan worked fairly well... Took about 45

minutes to get them all up.. And then I went

to plug it in.. OH, NO..  I have the female end

of the plug.. So back around, unhooking the

lights from the hooks.. about 20 minutes worth.

Reverse the line, and back to putting them up

again. This times it took about 30 minutes as

I was getting good at this with the broom.

Only to go plug in the lights.. and it is a female

plug..  you could hear me over the whole

neighborhood.  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

How could this be? I knew I had reversed the

line. Then I walked to the end to make sure the

other end had a female end.. and sure enough

it did.  (wish I had done that in the first place, sure

would have been easier on the nerves)... What

the HELL..  how can they have them hook in the

middle and end up with two females on the end.

So went to Home Depot.. No they don't have a

double end male plug.. suggested the electric

supply near my house.  The most patience young

man, who listen to my tale of woe.. and said ...they

don't make them, but I can make one up for you.

So after getting the ends.. and a short piece of wire..

he made one for me..

Back home. the King is home from work, and I explain.

He thought it was funny that I had removed it and redid

it.. until I reminded him.. of his saying.. INSIDE WORK

WOMEN'S WORK... OUTSIDE WORK MEN'S WORK.

And I just got done doing HIS work.. So I plugged it

all in.. and wa..la... I have lights.. and it looks good.

Now I am done..