Lights in the Deer Head

The picture above is not the Boggy Thicket, but it is a pretty good representation on the the lights we put up – icicle lights on the roof, mesh lights in the bushes, and lots of deer of various sizes spotted around the yard, etc. 

A few years ago, I actually added breakers to carry our Christmas light load.

This year, we decided to take advantage of the unseasonably warm weather – it’s usually cold and rainy – to get all our lights out before Thanksgiving.   We’ve spent almost every available minute for the last week installing lights and/or repairing and re-stringing lights that decided not to burn.

On modern strings of lights, if one burns out the rest still burn, but if one is missing or broken, half of the string will go out.  Finding that missing or broken bulb can be such a challenge that it’s often easier just to replace the string.

We still have a couple of pieces to pull down from the attic, but practically everything was finally in place yesterday afternoon.  Then, just after dark, we found that three of the deer that had been repaired and were working perfectly in the afternoon had strings that weren’t burning last night.