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(Some links or topics may not be completely kid-appropriate.)
Wed, Dec 07 2005
Hypothetical Lights of the Season
I'm still at work updating the list of good places to see Christmas lights, which is listed beneath the festivals in the December 2005 Deb's Monthly Review. But I guess there is one Texas location I'll be leaving off the list, due to all of Eric's hypothetical updates to his Christmas light display. I'm sorry he had so much frustration but I'm very glad he chronicled it for the rest of us to have a giggle over. I can also empathize with his issues. Last year we had to unfasten and check a whole section of lights (which were supposed to burn out only one light at a time) on a tree-shaped powder-coated frame. We finally found the culprit and then had to figure out how to refasten the lights back to the frame in their proper position, which was trickier than it sounds. I gained newly-found appreciation for the reasons manufacturers charge what they do for those pre-lighted shapes.
That phrase "one light at a time" always makes me think of the song "One Day at a Time". Maybe we could take a bit of poetic license (with apologies to Marijohn Wilkin, whose work I greatly respect) and make that first verse go something a bit like this:
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I'm still at work updating the list of good places to see Christmas lights, which is listed beneath the festivals in the December 2005 Deb's Monthly Review. But I guess there is one Texas location I'll be leaving off the list, due to all of Eric's hypothetical updates to his Christmas light display. I'm sorry he had so much frustration but I'm very glad he chronicled it for the rest of us to have a giggle over. I can also empathize with his issues. Last year we had to unfasten and check a whole section of lights (which were supposed to burn out only one light at a time) on a tree-shaped powder-coated frame. We finally found the culprit and then had to figure out how to refasten the lights back to the frame in their proper position, which was trickier than it sounds. I gained newly-found appreciation for the reasons manufacturers charge what they do for those pre-lighted shapes.
That phrase "one light at a time" always makes me think of the song "One Day at a Time". Maybe we could take a bit of poetic license (with apologies to Marijohn Wilkin, whose work I greatly respect) and make that first verse go something a bit like this:
Christmas is coming,
And here I stand.
Help me to the eaves, the roof and the trees
To string all I can.
Show me the ladder that I have to climb.
And Lord, for my sake, teach me to take
One bulb at a time
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