Christmas Lights!

It is that time of year again to break out all the festive decorations. Among those are the Christmas lights! Every year I am the one to put these up. I'm still unsure why I am the designated one to install these, as everyone enjoys them. I think I've come to the conclusion that I am the most flexible in the family and can crawl all over the roof like a monkey with little effort. Maybe this was developed from all the roofing I did in previous years. Considering that I use to be afraid of heights and edges, I've come a long ways! However, I still have this fear. Just not so much on single story homes that don't have a crazy pitch!

The lights are stored in our attic. So I made my way up to retrieve them. As I was doing so, I was not paying attention to where the ladder was lined up and I hit my head on the garage rail! Ugh, it really hurt. Then later as I was getting the boxes out of the attic I hit me head again in the same spot! It aches a little as I type this :/ I guess it's part of the process?... I'll try to avoid this for next year though!

My dad and sister helped me go through the strands of lights to check which ones worked and to put some of the bulbs back on. Every year they pop off because they get filled with water and then freeze, so off they go! For some reason, every strand that I grabbed did not work. I don't know why this happened cause from what I remember, last year they all worked. I think I was jinxed! Therefore, I let my sister and dad finish up that part as I started to install them on the house.

It actually never takes too long to put them up. My legs just occasionally burn a little from crouching along the edge forever. Since there were so many strands that decided not to work, there wasn't enough to go around the entire house. This makes me very sad! But good news, I found some other lights in the attic that we have never used and put up some of those in our courtyard area. I did not finish, as I was running out of daylight! It is suppose to rain for about the next 2 weeks, so I am hoping that there will be a break in there to finish putting up the lights. Otherwise, I will just have to do it in the rain!

Here are a few pictures from today's work. It was foggy pretty much all day today. Some of the pictures capture it but others not so much.