We had to cobble together arches over the gates as we had strung the lights along the fence top. (It’s an iron fence) Then we went to the dollar store and bought garlands to cover up our rather basic arches.

Amazing what you can do with wire ties!

So we were all pleased. And I made the grandkids come out and stand in the dark and cold with me to put them on the fence. So they felt quite triumphant at what they had done!

Robin

It was a pain in the butt putting up lights this year since our rental doesn’t have any plugs outside, leaving us to trail extension cords out of a window (we plugged up the gap with plumber’s putty). The weather was kind though… well we ARE in Florida… I’m never going to see snow again *sniff*…

As my husband and I were finishing the lights, one of our neighbors strolled over and was all like, “Great! Now I have to put up lights!” He was pleasant about it though, I guess his wife has been nagging him to do it. Hmmm… it has been a few weeks now and he still doesn’t have any up… ^-^ ooopsie.

I do love your description of the Christmas lights.

While we don’t have the ice and snow part of it (actually it’s sitting at about 33 on the Celcius scale…) there is something that hearkens back to childhood with the late dusk, and driving around the neighbourhood after dinner to watch the Christmas lights come on. Then home for supper, past the heavy scent of the gardenias in the pots at the back door, and the sweet, mouth-watering aroma of nectarines and plums in the fruit bowl, along with the tang of the radiata pine Christmas tree…

Good luck with your decorations, and I hope you have a Merry Christmas

It has been raining here since yesterday, otherwise the temperatures are quite warm for the season. Really warm in fact.

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