It is not my fault that my outside Christmas lights got hung this past Sunday and Monday. The temps were in the balmy 50's and I just had to hang them. It was pressure I got from the above meteorologists. These are the top professionals in Minneapolis telling us what weather conditions will be. They kept reporting that after Monday Minneapolis would see a change in temps. The temps would be more normal and perhaps on Weds a chance of snow. Someone
like me who hangs hundreds of lights tries to beat those cold temps and snow to hang lights in.
I don't think we hang them just to say Merry Christmas, I feel we hang them because by 4:30 PM it is dark in Minneapolis. I think it is our way in Minnesota to keep darkness at bay. Right now my front and back yards look like a wonderland of lights. I would never win any of those awards for Christmas decorations that they give out in the Twin Cities. My yard is too simple and one theme for that. To get those awards you need to string lights on anything you own and throw it in the front yard.
I did get some boxes of the new energy efficient lights. Twin Cities I am doing my job to save the planet! Here is my take. Since once you use them, you roll them in a ball and throw them in a box and then next year untangle them. why do they originally package them in a manner that only an engineer could figure out how to get them out? I spent more time in almost darkness trying to locate those little twisters. They can't be healthy for the planet. The job is now done and I am helping Southwest Minneapolis glow with warmth.
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