Day 5

11/26 - It was kind of chilly when I started on the lights this evening, so I didn't really feel like doing it once I got out there today. Tomorrow and Friday are supposed to be nice now, so it was hard to motivate myself to do much outside!

I hung up the silver bells under the garage fixtures.












I also put out 3 more yard fixtures:
Santa with presents.
Santa Sleigh with reindeer.
Merry Christmas Sign.

Then I decided rather than freeze, I would try to ressurect the snow globe, our only remaining blow up. Last year I gave them all away so I didn't have to deal with them, but there is a story with the snow globe...

We purchased the snow globe in 2006 for the display, and it didn't last for the entire season. One morning we had a fierce wind/snow storm roll through, and I awoke to the snow globe out in the street with several holes and much water in it. I placed it in the garage that day and we never got it back out that year. I had plans to resurrect it, but decided last year not to put it out because it would have to go in the same place it received the punishment the year before.

So, tonight I got it out of the box it has been sitting in for nearly 2 years to find that it was still wet in places - not a good sign.

I found all of the holes (I think, 3 so far) and patched them up with blue duct tape to match the blue plastic, and hooked it up to see what the damage is.

It is blowing up, but appears to be having issues with the "snow" being wet and not flowing back to the vacuum pickup, so I am going to let it run in the garage for a while and will hopefully drain out with it inflated.

I plan on putting it on the south side of the house, which we are decorating this year along with the front. Between the fence and house, it should be relatively protected from a repeat incident this year. (Famous last words)

I also took some pictures of the curling PVC before I really got into the snow globe while it was still light outside.