Here Comes the Cold!
The sniffles have been plagueing me the past week, as the air-Temperatures flux back n forth from freezing then back to over 50 degrees F. I'm glad for a couple days off to rest-up n recover a bit. But cold viruses aren't what I'm getting at...
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Weather reports are showing a stormy cold front with am snowfall, then an Artic Blast (in the teens) just for Friday.
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I've tried to avoid having to go out in the tres-frigid temps n snow by getting all the odd erands done today, n reserving most of the home chores (except insulating) for Freezin' Day.
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Today I went out on the deck n got half of each tree's lights done...
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(How is that possible?)! Don't you hate half-done, lame-looking Xmas decs? (Yes)!
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Attempting to get the chore accomplished before 4:15 pm nightfall n avoid doing it in the the deep-freeze, today after awaking about 2pm, I got the old strings out of the backroom n tested them. Three out of five had light. I strung the extension cord to the downstairs outside outlet, n wound the lights carefully around each tree, finishing in the twilight of dusk. Upon plugging in I realized the tops of each tree weren't lit, n each had that part of the strings mal-functioning!
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Great, now I have shrub-like shapes to stare at out the window until it's warm enough to try again.... grumble, grumble!
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btw- NASA scrubbed the Shuttle take-off due to poor weather conditions this evening-
posted by Snaggle Tooth @ 11:55 PM
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lol.. i hate that about christmas lights! we got minis this year for teh christmas tree and some of the icicles for outside. last year was a pain in the patootie b/c evan insisted on unscrewing all the bulbs out of the wire.. (we had the size c7 ones on the tree and outside) so they're in the attic. that and the lights that were outside kept going out and it looked stupid. we gave up replacing the bulbs. we think it was the subarctic temps that kept causing the lights to go out.. indoor/outdoor bulbs my ass! where did they test them? Florida?!
this weekend it's supposed to be a balmy 40 something degrees.. maybe you can finish those lights up over the weekend.
MB, Well, I really can't complain about the $2 strings that lasted years before dying... What's wierd is, in the middle of the storm the top lights on the Blue Spruce came on- like the connection was loose n moved, but the wires all pushed a bit to one side of the tree- so need adjusting.
I got another $2 string for the White Fir. Don't know when I'll get up early enough to do that n be ready for work too. Will be working all week-end, as usual.
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