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We have a Christmas tree and Christmas album thread, time for a Christmas light thread.

Below is the front of my house. The picture is not very good, its foggy and that is interfering with the flash. I usually wrap the tree at the left with a spiral of red and white lights like a candy cane, got to buy more tomorrow - my lights are getting old and some strings quit working.

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I live on the ship channel so I sometimes put lights up in the back for the passing boats. Many sailors are away from home at Christmas and I thought they might like to see a little holiday cheer. Again, I ran out of lights so I have to make a store run tomorrow (and the truck will be moved - I was unloading buiding supplies for a storage shed I'm working on). The fog (and smoke from a marsh fire) are worse back here, hence the poor picture quality.

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Well here is my absolutely dazzling display LOL
I just put them up about an hour ago. Not that it was much work just laying them across the bushes and plugging in and it shows, ha.
It consists of about 6 strings of LED's I purchased last year, 4 with 70 lights and 2 with 50 lights. With all the rebate coupons and sale prices I don't think I spent more than $25 for the lot and I don't have to worry about leaving them on continually as much.

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Still don't have any lights up...

Last year I put up more lights than I have ever before... the availability of good LED lights had something to do with it. This year, I'm lagging, but I'll try to get them up this coming weekend. A number of homes down the block put their lights up recently, so it's looking a little dark down here...
 
Some of our neighbors put their lights up over the Thanksgiving weekend!
I still have to put mine up. I only have one more trip and I am off for the rest of the year! So maybe this Saturday I will get them up. They are fun to put up, but a royal B---- to take down and store away!
 
Amsterdam now has turned the lights on too...

We had to wait until "Sinterklaas" steamed away to Spain.

 
Finally finished

Got the tree wrapped, only missing a little green light string that I usually put at the base of the tree. All of the stores sold out of most of their lights with two weeks to go until Christmas, and they told me they are not restocking (Target said they are already gearing up for Valentine's Day). I could see not restocking with a few days left, but two weeks? There were several others that were looking for lights at the same time as me - I saw the same people at the different stores I went to. If I ran a business I would restock - lots of money walked out their doors.

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The back is finished too - these are the old icicle lights, sections have been going out periodically since I put them up. Maybe next year I'll decorate the Edsel if it is still there. Does anyone else have pictures of their lights to post?

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I got our lights up last Saturday.
Our roof is very steep. In fact the strange thing about it is that it doesn't look that steep until you get on it. You always feel that you are just one step away from a slip. And the worst part about it is that there is nothing to hold on to for stability.
Most of our neighbors have put a line of lights on the ridge lines of their roofs and of course, I wanted to do the same.
When I finally got up on our roof to do this, I found the shingles on the ridge lines to be so tightly affixed to the roof, I couldn't get a light clip under any of the shingles. So I wrapped one of those mesh light sets around the chimney and got off the roof before I slipped down.

I wonder how many people fall off their roofs putting up Christmas Lights?


 
I WOULD NOT work on a roof unless I have some sort of fall suppresion or arresting device-this can prevent you from falling off and getting hurt or killed.Now when I see most roofing crews at work they are using footholds on the roof and some sort of fall arrest device.The arrest device can be a harness you wear with a line tied to a perm structure on the roof.also ladders and scaffolds should be tied down so they can't move when you are on them.
 

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