If you will notice there is a hole in the wall to the right. It is a cemented crawl space. It is stored there until she brings it all out as shown here. That picture was taken in 2011 and by now she has added even more!! The tree is stored separately in three huge containers in cold storage outside.

 

 

Just started the inside as we were up at the cabin for Thanksgiving in Soda Springs.

I installed LED rope lights from Costco last year. I leave them up year round. You can have the colors change for Thanksgiving or St Patrick's Day or whatever you want. You can program all colors and combinations of lights. You really cannot see them below the rain gutters the rest of the time. You can link 5 strands of them.

 

Rope lights looks like a good solution. But, I won't show it to my wife.

 

I really want to build a set of lights that do twinkle like they should.
I'm not talking about blinking, but twinkling going from not quite off to bright and back to low again at a random pattern on the string.
imagine if those icicles arrays could shimmer or have a the light that is brighter work it's way down from top to bottom in little surges.
I know how to do it but I don't think anyone would pay for it.

 

We have cut back on outside lights. Some of the lighted garland on our deck has burned out lights. I tried to buy some but as usual they were hard to find. I finally found some and the price was crazy. Screw these stores for their overpriced products. I threw all of the garland out. Cheap Chinese crap anyway. Bah Humbug here too.

 

The word is well-known as the catchphrase of miserly old Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in Dickens' 1843 novel, “A Christmas Carol.” Scrooge, who thinks Christmas is an enormous deception, retorts, “Bah! Humbug!” to anyone who dares to wish him a merry Christmas.

 

Many of the houses near us are outlining their houses in white lights. I think next year I will do the same but I will hire someone to do it. They will supply the lights and install them then take them down.

I watched a show the other night where the people were stapling their Christmas lights to their roof and siding. What kind of fools are they?

 

That looked like me after trying to get garland from 3 different stores and hearing, sorry we are all sold out.

 

One of the homes in our neighborhood had that done professionally. Really looks impressive. I expect that to start a trend.