Christmas Lights
Feb 11th 2013, 7:26 am
#16
Sawdust making harpy
Joined: Sep 2007
Location: Alberta
Posts: 11,291
Re: Christmas Lights
Give them a box of led's each, you could get 'em quite cheap around now i'd say.
Feb 11th 2013, 8:46 am
#17
Every day's a school day
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Joined: Jan 2005
Location: Was Calgary back in Edmonton again !!
Posts: 2,667
Re: Christmas Lights
On the prairies it's perfectly acceptable to have your lights up until after Ukrainian Christmas, (ditto the tree if it isn't too dry), but leaving it an extra month is a bit much. Some people just leave the lights hung up all year and only turn them on at Christmas because who wants to get killed on a ladder on the ice wnen it's 30 below. If I had Christmas lights on my house I'd turn them on whenever I wanted, but I'd call them something else. They were a favoured decoration in Mexican bordellos a long, long time ago, and for quite a while I had strings of them hung all over my office to achieve the same effect.
Feb 11th 2013, 8:52 am
#18
I said what ?!
Joined: Aug 2010
Location: Peterborough, Ontario.
Posts: 1,079
Re: Christmas Lights
It could be time for a recce ! camo yourself up and under the cover of darkness, put some tape over the motion sensor and a knife through the speaker.
Blame it on the Raccoons (not that many of them have gaffer tape !)
Last edited by Animal; Feb 11th 2013 at 8:55 am.
Feb 11th 2013, 12:36 pm
#20
me/moi
Joined: Nov 2012
Location: UK
Posts: 24,539
Re: Christmas Lights
Having said that, spare a thought for Mr Ali who is not happy about the lack of freedom of speech in Britain...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...-only-god.html
Feb 11th 2013, 12:48 pm
#21
limey party pooper
Joined: Jul 2012
Posts: 9,986
Re: Christmas Lights
Well they will soon be changed for Easter chickens and bunnies. Has anyone started being a Stepford Wife and decorate their homes and workplace for every 'holiday'? bloody hearts and flowers everywhere now.
Feb 11th 2013, 1:18 pm
#23
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Joined: Oct 2010
Location: A Briton, married to a Canadian, now in Fredericton.
Posts: 4,854
Re: Christmas Lights
I may well become a Stepford wife any day soon! I'd sooner have a few bunnies and frolicking lambs than a leftover ho hoing Santa. I like Christmas and have a soft spot for It...but only from the week before Chrstmas till 5th January. If they feel the need to decorate, stick out one of the ever popular horrid flags and change it regularly, but don't force St. Nick to weather it till springtime.
Feb 11th 2013, 1:25 pm
#24
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Joined: Dec 2011
Location: Back in Scotland after 4 years in Calgary
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Re: Christmas Lights
there's a house near me with a T-Rex wearing a Santa hat on the roof of the garage...
