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CVO Social => Off Topic => Topic started by: Boatman on December 02, 2008, 07:50:48 PM
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Well it's that time of year for light putting up outside. What's the deal with the miniature lights?
Only half the strand works?
All lights worked when you took them down last year but now either don't work or 1/2 a strand works?
How do they get so tangled up over summer storeage?
I check the fuses in the strand ends, check the bulbs, and they still don't work.
Do you just buy new lights each years?
:nixweiss: :nixweiss: :nixweiss: :soapbox: :) :) :)
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Yes. Every stinkin year. The wife always runs around looking for replacements, checks them out, they fail, I go to the store and freeze my arse off hanging them.
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Consider switching over to LED lights. They're virtually indestructible and I don't have to replace them every year.
Available lots of places & not expensive anymore. Here's some from Target:
http://www.target.com/Lights-LED-Christmas-Decorations/b/ref=sc_pfp_r_9_0_728011011_2/181-8431471-2884453?ie=UTF8&node=727916011
Merry Christmas!
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Well it's that time of year for light putting up outside. What's the deal with the miniature lights?
Only half the strand works?
All lights worked when you took them down last year but now either don't work or 1/2 a strand works?
How do they get so tangled up over summer storeage?
I check the fuses in the strand ends, check the bulbs, and they still don't work.
Do you just buy new lights each years?
:nixweiss: :nixweiss: :nixweiss: :soapbox: :) :) :)
So the wife gets a screamin deal on a commercial tree last year when Macy's is taking down the display trees. I won't bore you with the details but a $1300 dollar tree ends up being $30.00 (lights half work).
So the last week she took all the old lights off (no easy chore) all were wire tied to the branches.
She hired a gal to come in and wrap it in new lights we got at COSTCO, GE 300 lights commercial grade at $20.00 a box. She got 1200 lights and it did about half of a ten foot tree so back to COSTCO the next day and the tree now has 2250 lights on it and it cost $200.00 for the gal and $160.00 for the lights.
I hope it isn't a redo next year, that is one damned expensive $30.00 tree.
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Too busy.......all three of us. This year we're hanging a wreath above the front door and puttin' up a prelit fake tree.
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I switched to LED's a couple of years ago. They are more expensive but at least I don't have to replace them every year and the electricity expense for running the LED lights is much lower.
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BAH HUM BUG :confused5:
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BAH HUM BUG :confused5:
:D :D :D :D That's what my wife says about me because I refuse to put up Christmas lights.
My roof is a 12/12 pitch.... it's steep and a long way up there. If I fall off the roof I might not be able to pay for the house :'( And we live in the country - 400 ft back off the road... it's not like we have a lot of neighbors to impress.
Christmas lights are cool... I just don't want to spend a whole weekend and $$$ to put them up just to have to take them back down in three weeks.
And the whole Christmas Tree deal... my wife spent $$$$ to have a 10ft tall "nice tree". I have actually re-named our formal living room the "Christmas Tree" room... we loose the use of whole room at Christmas time. The tree goes up - takes the wife a full day to decorate... and then it comes back down in three weeks and I have to put all the boxes back up in the attic :(
I'm thinking that maybe we should just leave the tree up all year round. We could take the Christmas decoration off after Christmas -- then put little red hearts on it for Valentine's Day -- Then green shamrocks on it for St. Patricks Day -- Hang Easter Eggs on it for Easter -- And maybe fireworks on it for Independence Day -- and... well you get the idea. Why spend all that $$$$ and all the work for a short three week period :D :D
Yours Truly,
Ebenezer Scrooge :D
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:D :D :D :D That's what my wife says about me because I refuse to put up Christmas lights.
My roof is a 12/12 pitch.... it's steep and a long way up there. If I fall off the roof I might not be able to pay for the house :'( And we live in the country - 400 ft back off the road... it's not like we have a lot of neighbors to impress.
Christmas lights are cool... I just don't want to spend a whole weekend and $$$ to put them up just to have to take them back down in three weeks.
And the whole Christmas Tree deal... my wife spent $$$$ to have a 10ft tall "nice tree". I have actually re-named our formal living room the "Christmas Tree" room... we loose the use of whole room at Christmas time. The tree goes up - takes the wife a full day to decorate... and then it comes back down in three weeks and I have to put all the boxes back up in the attic :(
I'm thinking that maybe we should just leave the tree up all year round. We could take the Christmas decoration off after Christmas -- then put little red hearts on it for Valentine's Day -- Then green shamrocks on it for St. Patricks Day -- Hang Easter Eggs on it for Easter -- And maybe fireworks on it for Independence Day -- and... well you get the idea. Why spend all that $$$$ and all the work for a short three week period :D :D
Yours Truly,
Ebenezer Scrooge :D
Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! ;D
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Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! ;D
Yup :2vrolijk_21:
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Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! ;D
Is there a 3rd Howie here? :confused5: :confused5: :confused5: :nixweiss: :nixweiss: :nixweiss:
Hoist! 8)
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...pic from last year and I have to do it again this weekend. :'( She put the tree up today and spent all day messing with bulbs that didn't work and as soon as I walked in the door from work she wants me to fix it. I hate this x-mas _hit, can't we just have a longer Thanksgiving !! Doc
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Ya know Howie, there are some rednecks I know that do just that! ;D
And I thought I had an original idea :-\
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I'm a gonna roll the Jester in the living room.....NA..I'll ride it in...Hang xmas lights all over her, and put xmas presents all around her.
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The only thing that is going to get lit up here is....me
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:D :D :D :D That's what my wife says about me because I refuse to put up Christmas lights.
My roof is a 12/12 pitch.... it's steep and a long way up there. If I fall off the roof I might not be able to pay for the house :'( And we live in the country - 400 ft back off the road... it's not like we have a lot of neighbors to impress.
Christmas lights are cool... I just don't want to spend a whole weekend and $$$ to put them up just to have to take them back down in three weeks.
And the whole Christmas Tree deal... my wife spent $$$$ to have a 10ft tall "nice tree". I have actually re-named our formal living room the "Christmas Tree" room... we loose the use of whole room at Christmas time. The tree goes up - takes the wife a full day to decorate... and then it comes back down in three weeks and I have to put all the boxes back up in the attic :(
I'm thinking that maybe we should just leave the tree up all year round. We could take the Christmas decoration off after Christmas -- then put little red hearts on it for Valentine's Day -- Then green shamrocks on it for St. Patricks Day -- Hang Easter Eggs on it for Easter -- And maybe fireworks on it for Independence Day -- and... well you get the idea. Why spend all that $$$$ and all the work for a short three week period :D :D
Yours Truly,
Ebenezer Scrooge :D
Makes sense to me. Not sure I want to look at a tree in the dining room all year long though. The wife does the tree decorating - I get the tree out of the attic with all the decorations.
I quit putting lights on outside of the house a few years ago. Mostly due to laziness, but I did fall off the roof once - leaning over to attach lights & took a header. Did a perfect flip - landed on my feet by some fluke of luck. No injuries but after that I used the ladder more. Then I just quit putting them up.
When the kids were little we would get a live tree or 2. Always more fun for me - after Christmas. Some of them went to the lake for crappie habitat. Some of them went to the burn pile for a few months. Amazing how fast they go up in flames when they dry out.
(http://www.ratemyeverything.net/image/1395/0/Redneck_Christmas_Lights.ashx)
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This year just the leg lamp in the front window...I did not put it up last year and the "hood" protested, so to appease the masses and get free holiday beverages I will put it up.
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Those little trigger like repair devices really do help to find where the problem is and fix it. I was extremely sceptical until I tried it and they worth they're weight in gold.
As to the L.E.D.s, I'm in the process of switching my house over. We've replaced all the tree lights, and the C9 bulbs outside. Next year the Garland light will go and the year after that icicle lights. The L.E.D.s will pay for themselves in a few years since my wife likes the house lit up enough that Tim the Toolman Taylor would go... Ar Ar Ar at it!
Ride Safe,
J-Carr
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Great Thread!
daughter asked me on the way home yesterday (this is the girl you can't get to spend 15 min or longer on anything but watching TV).
"So, when are going to start decorating for Christmas?" A real hand on the hips attitude.
THAT makes me want to slide off my icy roof while messing with strands so stiff from the cold that won't bend and doing it with fingers I can no longer feel anything with!
I told her I already did. I put the bare tree up on Sunday.
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Takes me 45 min. just to carry all the crap up from the basement. Wifey spends a couple days setting it all out and two more to take it all down. 45 mins again to carry it all down. Don't get it. :nixweiss: :nixweiss:
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ok fess up which one of you guys went OCD on your lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK90Ys2LhSo
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ok fess up which one of you guys went OCD on your lights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK90Ys2LhSo
I heard it was Freds Mom.
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Went to PIR (race track) in Portland last night to look at lights. Got there right when they opened, was the only car on the track. Terry was driving me and a girlfriend around so we could ewww and awww at all the lights. Had all the windows down and the sunroof open. Dec 2 and 58 degrees at 5pm :nixweiss: no complaining here.
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I heard it was Freds Mom.
Well they both enjoy the Trans-Siberian Orchestra so you might be on to something. :evilgrin:
:pumpkin:
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
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i'd settle for a charlie brown x-mas tree
(http://euroross.blogspot.com/charlie%20brown%20tree.JPG)
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This guys lives close by to me and it is really quite amazing and for a good cause...
http://jackselectric.com/Christmas%20Lights/christmas_lights.htm
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So I just put up the Christmas lights and my wife ain't talking to me. I don't know why.
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So I just put up the Christmas lights and my wife ain't talking to me. I don't know why.
Great idea Monty, maybe she'll say we can do without lights this year...............Um, but she may have something else you can do without as well now that I think about it. :-\
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So the wife gets a screamin deal on a commercial tree last year when Macy's is taking down the display trees. I won't bore you with the details but a $1300 dollar tree ends up being $30.00 (lights half work).
So the last week she took all the old lights off (no easy chore) all were wire tied to the branches.
She hired a gal to come in and wrap it in new lights we got at COSTCO, GE 300 lights commercial grade at $20.00 a box. She got 1200 lights and it did about half of a ten foot tree so back to COSTCO the next day and the tree now has 2250 lights on it and it cost $200.00 for the gal and $160.00 for the lights.
I hope it isn't a redo next year, that is one damned expensive $30.00 tree.
:worthless:
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Lighted truck parade here in Victoria ........ http://www.ieoa.ca/
and a famous Victoria garden ...... http://www.butchartgardens.com/planning-your-visit/the-5-seasons/christmas.html
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:worthless:
Never thought about a pic, sorry Blair......................I better get one with the blinds closed so you can see the stupid lights.................
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Nice tree...........and those two pups look guilty, what did they do?
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Nice tree...........and those two pups look guilty, what did they do?
More like what they are scheming up.
You may recall Harley (the young one) destroyed a refrigerator the first week or two we had him when left alone.
MGD, batteries, caesar dressing and romaine, carrots, it all came out of the refrigerator.
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:D :D :D :D :D :D I love it! My wife will be so happy when I tell her that I have changed may mind and I think I will put up some Christmas lights for her.... well, she will be happy until she gets to see my work :huepfenlol2:
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Here's a better shot of the tree with the room lights off and blinds closed :2vrolijk_21:
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Those little trigger like repair devices really do help to find where the problem is and fix it. I was extremely sceptical until I tried it and they worth they're weight in gold.
As to the L.E.D.s, I'm in the process of switching my house over. We've replaced all the tree lights, and the C9 bulbs outside. Next year the Garland light will go and the year after that icicle lights. The L.E.D.s will pay for themselves in a few years since my wife likes the house lit up enough that Tim the Toolman Taylor would go... Ar Ar Ar at it!
Ride Safe,
J-Carr
All I can say is that it's a good thing you guys know a lot about motorcycles... because y'all don't know jack about Christmas lights. Being that the ex "inherited" all of the lights and most of the ornaments, it was time to buy new. Well I decided to take everyone's advice and go LED this year. Needless to say, it was not exactly what I expected. These things are bluer than my HIDs! Linda is calling it our "Chanukah bush". ;D :D ;D
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Linda was a trooper though and helped put the lights on. Now I'm watching her hang the decorations while listening to Christmas music on the jukebox.
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Too busy.......all three of us. This year we're hanging a wreath above the front door and puttin' up a prelit fake tree.
Man....you have a wreath......gotta tell Kathy we are falling behind in the times....
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"Chanukah bush". ;D :D ;D
ooooh, bad flashback
Got kneed in my special place soooo bad for asking exactly that one night a long time ago.
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The Chanukah Bush comment comes from my years of being married to a Jewish man that gave me a book called "There is No Such Thing as a Chanukah Bush." I have Jewish friends that put up a tree but my Ex never felt comfortable with having anything that represented Christmas including a wreath. I had converted to Judaism before our marriage and I think it is an intriguing religion but would have loved to have had a Chanukah Bush just from the festivity side of the month of December.
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Well here it is all dressed up:
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ooooh, bad flashback
Got kneed in my special place soooo bad for asking exactly that one night a long time ago.
So what was the answer?
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/HPM/BM73~Kick-Crotch-Posters.jpg)
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So what was the answer?
(http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/HPM/BM73~Kick-Crotch-Posters.jpg)
If memory informs me correctly the answer was humility. I'm sure it lasted a good two or three hours too.
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So what goes on a Chanukah bush? :confused5:
Israelites! ;D
Mike
:drink:
Footnote: One of my good Jewish friends told me that 30 years ago.
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Bagels, Lox, little creme cheeze, maybe a slice of tomato. Man I'm hungry.
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I had some extra time this weekend so I did our tree ,too.
My wife got so mad she went to her sister's. So I guess I'll just have to stay home and watch the Giant game with my dog and a cold beer.
:D :D :D
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Monty, this is one of your finest moments, so here's to you!
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I had some extra time this weekend so I did our tree ,too.
My wife got so mad she went to her sister's. So I guess I'll just have to stay home and watch the Giant game with my dog and a cold beer.
:D :D :D
Sounds like my way of getting the tree up. :D ;D :D ;D
:pumpkin:
Ride Safe,
Fired00d
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Put up my tree. Had to put up a small one as something is taking up space where I use to have the full sized tree,
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Lit up. So is the wire one I have outside (as seen through the window).
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Put up my tree. Had to put up a small one as something is taking up space where I use to have the full sized tree,
Looks like you got your priorities in order. :2vrolijk_21:
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Put up my tree. Had to put up a small one as something is taking up space where I use to have the full sized tree,
I hope he doesn't get to "open it up" inside! :apple: :jalapeno: :cucumber:
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Happy 23rd!
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I'm on my way out of town for this entire week, get back in time to help Jamey get a surgery on his back and he will be laid up for the next 6 weeks and I did not even think about getting ornaments and tree down...
SO that pre-lit tree and a wreath on the door may be all we do this year too.
We will have to keep making trips to the garage to look at the bikes so we know what we are doing and why, but they still make us feel all warm inside, even after a few years and lots of bugs and dirt on em.
I even won the women's mileage contest again this year, not sure how since I hardly had a chance to go anywhere (or at least that is what it seemed like for me) so our bikes are not still new and glossy, but they still make us feel as good as the day we got em.
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Tell Jamey I wish him a quick recovery...No sking..And congratulations on winning for not going anywhere!
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Bought 1200 lights yesterday so that I didn't have to screw with trying to get the old ones to work. Crap! only about 1/5th of 'em worked... and yes I plugged them in. Did I ever mention that I hate christmas! Getting all the chit out of the attic with my sore knee's and hitting my bald head on the rafters not to mention all the frigg'n insulation making me itch for days. Then put it all up and then taking it all down and back to the attic. Did I mention I hate Christmas! Maybe I did. I'm not going to mention that we have a very expensive fake tree that looks great! BUT no we had to drive up in the wood over 5,000 feet to get a frigg'n fresh Noble. (And to top it off, I miss a great football game.) Now the truck is all scratched up and I'll spend a week getting that cleaned up. By the way, did I mention I hate christmas!
Ugly John
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Thats why Festivus is better. All you need is a pole and you what they attract?! :)
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the pole, airing of the grievances, feats of strength........ NO LIGHTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQFLqMyo0fo
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Did I mention I hate Christmas! Maybe I did. I'm not going to mention that we have a very expensive fake tree that looks great! Ugly John
We put up a new fake one last night and half the bulbs didn't work. A couple of years ago the tree stand fell out of the rafters and put a big ding on my front fender, after that no more fresh trees. More reasons to hate x-mas. ;D Doc
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luckily my wife and I have the same idea, that as we dont go to church we dont do xmas!
No lights!
no tree!
she and her son r vegi so no turkey!
Its not our birthday so no presents!
No pinced toes scrambling for that last gift!
The list goes on, but u get the idea.........
AHHHH Bliss!
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That is why Festivus is for "the rest of us!"
http://www.festivusbook.com/
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Festivus is a great holiday. Especially like the pole & the airing of grievances.
Decided recently to celebrate "regardless". Not sure what the holiday is all about yet except there are no regards involved. I hope it never has a website - not that there is anything wrong with a website for Festivus.......
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A great holiday season will be upon us with Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa and Festivus in the same week.
I have maintained my "Head of Household" status for many a Festivus as no one can wrestle me down a pin me as lore dictates.
Also no one dare air any grievances, all are to be happy, like it or not.
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Have you ever experienced a Festivus miracle?
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I have!
One year when we assumed the keg was empty, but when a late arrival was able to draw and drink the 3 required beers before joining in Festivus activities, when realized what had happened, joy overtook us all and no grievances were aired.
As I recal the Feat of Strength happened to be Jagger shots that year, no big whoop.
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Amazing!
http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/Festivuspoles.htm (http://www.festivuspoles.com/pages/Festivuspoles.htm)
(http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/wp-content/Festivus_pole_lot.jpg)
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I finally got my Xmas lights up.
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I finally got my Xmas lights up.
Hey HB, you and MontyB (reply26) live at the same house :huepfenlol2: I guess you never run into each other :bananarock:
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Hey HB, you and MontyB (reply26) live at the same house :huepfenlol2: I guess you never run into each other :bananarock:
Maybe we're husband-in-laws? :nixweiss: Maybe he works the day shift? ;D
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Maybe we're husband-in-laws? :nixweiss: Maybe he works the day shift? ;D
That's the way I had it figured :huepfenlol2:
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I'm a gonna roll the Jester in the living room.....NA..I'll ride it in...Hang xmas lights all over her, and put xmas presents all around her.
I like Hogbreath's idea. Maybe I'll put a hat on the Frosty!
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No lights for me in years...
:2vrolijk_21:
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No lights for me in years...
:2vrolijk_21:
You're the smartest/luckiest one of the bunch Jock. :)
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Maybe we're husband-in-laws? :nixweiss: Maybe he works the day shift? ;D
Hey Cousin! Where you been?
I guess that kinda explains the extra bikes in the garage!
Cheers!
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Hey Cousin! Where you been?
I guess that kinda explains the extra bikes in the garage!
Cheers!
:drink:
:huepfenjump3: :drink:
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Don't forget to do your part for the planet and go green with solar LED Christmas lights http://mysolarshop.com/holiday.html
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Don't forget to do your part for the planet and go green with solar LED Christmas lights http://mysolarshop.com/holiday.html
These are a great idea. Never knew they existed till a couple of weeks ago. Watch out, next year I'm lighting up the driveway (1/2 mile long) and anything else thats gets in the way.
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We only get 8 hours of daylight which is normally obscured by clouds this time of year. Doubt they'd work. If they were inside, they could be charged with incandescent lights shining on them which defeats the purpose. Can't win sometimes.
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You could send them to me, I'll put them put after cutting the grass, take a picture of them and send it back to you to put on your fridge.
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You could send them to me, I'll put them put after cutting the grass, take a picture of them and send it back to you to put on your fridge.
That's it! Next year, I'm only hanging PICTURES if lights. They'll always work! :cucumber: :2vrolijk_21:
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check out the lights here!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWBdjekhwkk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWBdjekhwkk)
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finally got them finished