Well, phase III is complete! I have both roof lines and the garage doors done which was my goal to have completed before Thanksgiving.
The fourth and final phase will have to wait until a week from Saturday. Every year I place a fresh cut Christmas tree on our front porch and we hang a swag of garland on the front railing.
The boy scouts dropped off the garland a few days ago but the tree will not arrive until December 6th.
Once I have finished decorating the porch I will post the fourth and final exterior illumination entry for your viewing pleasure.
One quick hint that I came up with this year involves the garage door lights. The "Light Tacker" worked great for the garage door lights by the way! Of course, the light string length never works out perfectly for the door frames and because of this there has to be a partial string of lights on the ground that goes between the big garage door and the little one. My old C7's used to allow me to remove bulbs without affecting the rest of the lights in the string. These new LED lights do not allow me to pull bulbs without knocking the whole string out. Because of this, I came up with the idea to wrap black electrician's tape around the 10 bulbs that I needed to hide. It worked perfectly!
Once again I have attached a link to a classic clip of Clark W. Griswold's light display in one of my favorite movies "Christmas Vacation" which you can access by clicking on the title above.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving!
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