Day 3...

11/24 - About 4:30 PM I started to question why I do this every year.

At 4:35 I went outside to start on the lights for the night. I started by putting in the green and red bulbs in the outside garage light fixtures on the house to make sure I accomplished something.

I then got out my calculator to figure out the spacing of the strings of lights. Started putting them down, and realized I must have done something wrong, recalculated, and started again. I had it right, just didn't take into account that my 5 feet from the hole should have been 10 feet in my measurement, duh.

BTW, to do the circumference, I cut a string of mason line to 5 feet after optically determining (aka looking at) what I wanted the shape of the tree to look like. Had Heather hold it to the base of the pole, and went around spraypainting a circle around the tree.

Then I spaced the lights at 10.5 inches between the strands, and secured the strings of lights to the ground with landscaping spikes.


I plugged all of the lights directly in to see what it looked like all lit up.


















Neighbors came out and admired it, cars slowed down to look, and the kids loved it.