Last weekend while the activities director was making plans for the family holiday, the “best boy”, or maybe he is the “Key Grip”, was outside putting up the decorations.
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- The traditional process dictates that:
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- The lights must NOT be tested before being strung up.
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- They are all tossed into a big box when taken down the prior year, shaken well (not stirred) then placed into the attic where mice can chew on them.
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- The main rule is the traditional stringing of the Kazology Christmas Lighting Spectacular must absolutely wait until the coldest and darkest day in late December.
I am very pleased to report that in 2007 the tradition has been maintained! I think it was about 8 pm, and 20 degrees outside when completed. If we were not such traditionalists we would have done this on Saturday after Thanksgiving when it was daylight and 50 degrees, but what fun would that be anyway? It was a very good year having only achieved a 20% light failure rate!
The final step in the process, we have already taken the pledge that “next year we are going to get LED lights with the 100,000 hour guarantee and tangle free design….. right….. sure we will…. you betcha boss….. don’t hold your breath!
Until the last mini-light fails to work disabling the entire strand,
George