Father Kit Cool Gun Garth Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Am I too early? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Naw, yer good. You can still see the bulbs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Ron Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Howdy, Usually New Years Day fer me. Best CR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laramie Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 The twelve days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day.. just ask my wife Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cowboy Small Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 What is this "take down Christmas lights" you speak of ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-BAR #18287 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 Greasy Mike’s cafe close to the old downtown YMCA in Pueblo, Colorado kept his 3-foot Charlie Brown Christmas Tree lighted up in his window facing Main Street year ‘round. Didn’t hurt his business any and everybody thought it was pretty cool! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Four-Eyed Buck,SASS #14795 Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 SWMBO has taken the tree and inflatables down. Tree wasn't much of an effort, at three feet and sitting on the dining area table, not much of a challenge. She still has some stuff out on the deck yet. I took the tree down in the club house yesterday as well as the spotlights around the office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perro Del Diablo Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 2 hours ago, Cold Lake Kid, SASS # 51474 said: Naw, yer good. You can still see the bulbs. When you can't see bulbs anymore just wrap new ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 I just love the yearly predictable news cycles: July 4th: people blowing their fingers off or burning down their neighbors' houses. October 31st: people wandering the streets Trick or Treating getting run over. December: people getting into fistfights or shootings at the shopping mall. January 1st: drunk drivers causing mayhem at midnight. February-March: houses burning down thanks to dry, brown Christmas trees catching fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillbilly Drifter Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 My wife puts a lot of effort into her Christmas decorations. Her mom died on Christmas Day in 2004. It was a couple years before she decorated again. She leaves them up until her birthday Feb 3rd. I never say a word. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alpo Posted December 28, 2018 Share Posted December 28, 2018 3 hours ago, Laramie said: The twelve days of Christmas starts on Christmas Day.. just ask my wife Of course they do. The shepherds arrived Christmas day to see the new baby. The three wise men were still on the road. They got there twelve days later. The twelve days of Christmas run from the 25th - Christmas - to the 6th - Three Kings Day. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphany_(holiday) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 Just wait till July 1. Then instead of “kinda late taking the down,” it’s “got them up early” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forty Rod SASS 3935 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 If you don't put 'em up you don't have to take 'em down. Same with Christmas trees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 1 hour ago, Hillbilly Drifter said: leaves them up until her birthday Feb 3rd. I never say a word. Candlemas (Feb. 2), which is also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, is the end of the Christmas season. Many people used to leave the decorations up until then. A good custom, although my wife and I usually take them down at Theophany. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 I set my foot down and told my wife most firmly, I'll take them down when you tell me to!! And not before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pat Riot Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 42 minutes ago, Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 said: I set my foot down and told my wife most firmly, I'll take them down when you tell me to!! And not before. Wise Man! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badger Mountain Charlie SASS #43172 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 51 minutes ago, Birdgun Quail, SASS #63663 said: I set my foot down and told my wife most firmly, I'll take them down when you tell me to!! And not before. You are a pretty assertive kind of guy, Birdgun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yul Lose Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 4 hours ago, Hillbilly Drifter said: My wife puts a lot of effort into her Christmas decorations. Her mom died on Christmas Day in 2004. It was a couple years before she decorated again. She leaves them up until her birthday Feb 3rd. I never say a word. Very nice. I’d leave it up too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Linn Keller, SASS 27332, BOLD 103 Posted December 29, 2018 Share Posted December 29, 2018 I was a working paramedic in southeast (Appalachian) Ohio, where directions are generally convoluted and confusing especially if you're an outsider. Fay Iver Ridge is also known as Cornstill Road, and also as a numbered county road: a native will know this, an auslander won't. Calls went in to Gallipolis, which dispatched for the seven county system; that dispatcher could not have the native's intimate knowledge of the area. It was not uncommon for Dispatch to tell a caller to throw a bedsheet over their mailbox. Kind of hard to miss a mailbox dressed like a Halloween spook. Generally the caller, after dark, would say "I'll have the porch light on." Thanks, folks, but so does everyone else in the county. The one that made life much, much easier was the caller who said "I'll have my Christmas lights on." It was the middle of July. Everyone and their uncle might have their porch lights on but there's only one trailer in the holler that has Christmas lights lit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buffalo Creek Law Dog Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 Our tree was gone by 2pm on Boxing Day (Dec 26) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sixgun Sheridan Posted December 30, 2018 Share Posted December 30, 2018 I have an idea. On Christmas Day gift the tree to somebody, making sure they take their new present with them when they leave. Gift all the other decorations as well. Problem solved! You can thank me later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
punxsutawneypete Posted January 3, 2019 Share Posted January 3, 2019 On 12/28/2018 at 8:12 PM, Subdeacon Joe said: Candlemas (Feb. 2), which is also known as the Feast of the Presentation of Our Lord in the Temple, is the end of the Christmas season. Many people used to leave the decorations up until then. A good custom, although my wife and I usually take them down at Theophany. February 2 is also Groundhog Day. That's the day to take down Christmas lights in Punxsutawney. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Bob #35998 Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 I don’t put any outside lights up. Hardly anyone out here to see em except for 4 legged types and they are not impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subdeacon Joe Posted January 4, 2019 Share Posted January 4, 2019 Well, the weather forecast calls for rain starting tomorrow afternoon and continuing for several days. TONIGHT JAN 3 Cloudy --35° 0% ENE 4 mph 75% FRI JAN 4 Cloudy 56°44° 0% ESE 7 mph 64% SAT JAN 5 Rain/Wind 52°40° 100% SSW 23 mph 89% SUN JAN 6 Rain 53°47° 100% S 12 mph 86% MON JAN 7 Rain 56°49° 80% S 9 mph 89% TUE JAN 8 PM Rain 56°46° 70% SSE 13 mph 82% well, the Weather Underground forecast shows it starting tomorrow afternoon, anyway. With some significant amounts of rain. So we decided that it would be prudent to get them down today. Lisa managed to get all the lights in this afternoon. Get them put away Saturday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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