A Joyful Ball of Red, Green Blue, Orange...

OK, now this is funny! I say that's the HOLIDAY SPIRIT!! To me it says: "I was thinking about it, got tired and went in and had myself a cup o' hot cocoa and did what ever I wanted!" You go boy or girl, whatever the case may be. It doesn't look as though the weather was too snowy out, couldn't use that excuse! And why do we have to have an excuse? It's our houses, can't we do with them as we please? To which I say, NO, he** NO, not if you're my neighbor, I don't want that hangin' around my house but I sure get a kick out of it in other neighborhoods.

When my husband and I drive around in December we inevitably make comments or shall I say dis on the bad Christmas light "jobs" and laugh our heads off. So here was one last night...the old half way around the HUGE pine tree in the front lawn gets ample lights, starts running out of lights the tree gets too tall so the rest of the lights get attached to the eaves of the house, (but just on half of the eaves)...of course! LOVE IT!!! Here is another we saw last night. The beautifully lit huge home that sits on top of the hill with all white lights professionally done that perfectly shows off the windows and pitches. The small home that sits next to the HUGE home with a few mis-matchy lights that have probably been pulled from their basement and thrown on the few small pine trees and put on the front of part of the house like bad teeth that look like they need braces. Hummm? I might just say to George, "why don't you skip it this year honey?"

One year my husband worked very hard to neatly line the sidewalk with lights by first putting stakes up and then neatly attaching the lights to the stakes. (I had nothing to do with this.) The first person to come along kicked them, and well you can probably finish the story from there...

Ok here is one more I love, this one I call the bipolar. This is the yard that has the blinking lights on the tree and the solid at the same time and you look at it and you say to yourself...what am I suppose to think about that??? Well that is exactly how I FEEL sometimes!!

All in all, this sounded very condescending, but believe me what ever makes you JOYFUL it is all worth it. so for now I'm going to go have a cup o' cocoa and snuggle with the dogs in front of the fire.

If all Christmas lights were perfect and there were no blinking ones December drives would be really boring. Such is life if you think about it.