🎄 2024 Christmas Decorating Recap
We usually set up our Christmas decorations on (or after) December 6th so that ended up being how we spent our Saturday. I had to dig our artificial Christmas tree out of storage in the garage and bring that into the house. Of course it was buried under a large pile of other crap and bags of clothes we need to donate. Thankfully, the rest of the family took care of set up and tree decorating once I hauled it into the house while I turned my attention to our exterior lights.
I've got a well-established method for our outdoor lighting, but last year we added a string of LED lightbulbs that we keep up year around now. That's great, but it means I have to spend a fair amount of time interfacing with that permanent string of lights in a way that doesn't screw them up. We line the top of our porch railing with strings of green LED lighting wrapped with pine garlands and then run string of red LED lighting wrapped around the porch pillars candy cane style. It was cold and rainy so my fingerd got pretty chilled despite wearing gloves. In the end it took me a couple hours, but the end result was probably my best result yet. I even ended with an extra string of red lights somehow. The finishing touch was adding three large red velvet bows along with the porch railing.