Putting up the outside Christmas lights is not my favorite job. Oh, it's better than getting a root canal, and just a little worse than having someone bash me over the head with a brick..
These pics were taken mostly to figure out how to deal with taking digital shots at night. Yes, there's a night-setting on the camera, but the pictures always come out blurred, cuz you can't hold your hand still long enough for the slow shutter speed.
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But setting the camera on the top of my pick-up worked pretty good in the top photo, even though the camera angles are limited, and the top of the truck gets in the pic. The bottom pic proved that using the flash also helps once it's gotten dark. Buried in one of my closets somewhere is a tripod. It's time to find it.
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My part of the decorating job is done. Liz will now turn every room inside into Santa's house (including the bathrooms). Those front windows in the top pic, and that space to the right of the "3160" in the bottom pic will shortly be overflowing with Christmas lights and other decorations. Stay tuned.
3 comments:
Your lights look better than ours. Then again, just about anyone's lights look better than ours. Ours are always pretty pathetic.
pictures! we want pics!
ours are actually rather dinky. for some reason they look better here than they really are. i dutifully string them along the front eave, but that's it. none on the roof, none on the trees or bushes. no moving reindeer made of lights.
fortunately, the rest of the cul-de-sac is equally ...um... modest in their outside lights.
Ours aren't fully done. We ran out of string halfway across the garage. We bought more, but have to wait until Saturday to put them up because it gets too dark too early (damn that non-daylight-savings time!). I think the problem with our lights is that it's just one string and our roof is not made for that sort of thing. The lights start to sag after the wind tugs at them, and there is always a lot of wind at this time of year. We had 40 mph gusts yesterday.
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