Christmas lights

Christmas lights…

Do you have your Christmas lights up on your house?  When do you put yours up? 

We have ours up year around and about this time of the year, I check to see what is still working. 

Why do we have them up year around? Because it is a pain to string them each year.. like we use to.. and usually freezing our fingers off. Or worse yet, there is 3 feet of snow to tromp thru.  We also have a hang over eave, so one doesn’t notice them unless one is looking for them.

Last year we put a timer on them.. So they go one after dark and then you time them for how long you want them on. We started at 6 hours.. but down sized it to 4. 

But the funny part was..  I forgot it was on a timer.. Because it doesn’t get dark until after 9 in the summer. I had disconnected the front fence ones, as we use the gate to get the lawn mower in the yard..   And at 9, we are in the house… maybe watching tv with the curtains pulled.. or even have gone to bed, depending on what kind of day we have had. 

Well, some where near July…I happen to notice a colorful glow in the back deck… and there they were the Christmas lights.. lighting up our back door deck..  LOL..   Then I figure .. oh what the heck… I just down size it to 2 hours..

Also we found out by having the lights up year around.. if some one is coming over after dark and have not been here before…  we just tell them.. we are the one with Christmas lights on…  and we turn them on so they can find out house.