Curse you Noma

Now I know why Noma makes so much money as a company. Their damn isicle lights can't last more than a season. *grumble .. grumble*

So I got up and was outside prepping the lights to hang as I do every first weekend of December. Of course, the isicles SEEMED fine when I plugged them in on the ground. Of course, after several hours on the ladder, and putting the lights in series... some strands just would not work. Out of the 9 strands... 1 is fully hooped and two have only half the lights working. In an effort to get this done I went to Canadian Tire to swap out the bad strands. Of course Noma decided that this year, the cord color would be WHITE instead of green. In other words, I would have to replace EVERYTHING or look goofy with some cords white, and some green. *sigh*

I will make some calls this week and see if I can find a store that has green cord isicles. Hopefully I can find some. While I was wrestling with that, my wife and daughter made the inside of the house festive. Beautiful tree again this year. We have a lovely gold bead, red ball with white lights christmas tree. I love that. Very classy, extremely sophisticated, and not tacky. I really dislike fla
shly color light trees which would make an epaleptic go nuts. Add to that tacky ornaments and you got the, in my opinion, most ugly tree ever. Maybe its kewl when yer 3, but after that its just ugly. Of course, most people disagree with me. But thats ok.