Monday, November 20, 2006

Sunny and 60+ degrees

On November 19. People!

Me: (bounds downstairs after brilliant idea in the shower) "Jeromy, since it's so nice outside, how about we get the Christmas lights up on the house?

Jeromy: Stares at tv (football game). Maybe rolls eyes once or twice. Pretends he's not there.

Me: "... because, you know, it's always freezing every time we do this, but this time we won't have to wear gloves and we'll need to spend a lot of time outside figuring out the exact configuration of how we're going to power our lights because remember a couple of years ago when we found out the hard way that we can only string two sets of lights together at a time? maybe I should go start pacing off the exact footage and potential placement of the lights so that our lights aren't lopsided and we don't have too many on side of the house and..."



After about an hour or two, I finally convinced him to remove himself from the Seahawk game broadcast and help me with the Christmas lights on the house.

We, being oh-so-smart, decided to install switched power plugs in three locations on the exterior of our home when it was being built. The sole purpose of these plugs is for Christmas lights. The problem(s):

Plug number 1, located on the front of our house, does not currently work. At all.
Plug number 2, located on the dormer above our garage, is too perilously high to reach and so Jeromy won't go near it. At all.
Plug number 3, located under the covered portico deck off the back of the house, works... but it's the back of the house.

So, although my light configuration is not perfect and my power supply issues will need to be fixed another day, we were still able to get our Christmas lights up a week early, in the balmy weather.

To Cameron's delight, I might add.


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