Day One of the efforts to decorate the Forever Home in Hesperia. I am not dissatisfied with the progress and results, but I have learned new truths.
Part of the “adventure” is figuring out where our existing light sets will go best on the new house. For starters, along the roof line we typically have dual lines of big, colorful C9 bulbs, along with white icicle lights. We started at the garage (southwest) corner of the house and from there worked both ways.
The good news is that we found a relatively quick and simple way to hang the lights and anchor them, and there are working power outlets up under the eaves on both ends of the house, as well as near the front door.
The bad news is that this house is HUGE and has a massive front roof line. There are gaps, and we’re going to neeed to make a trip to Lowe’s ASAP to get more lights.
Once we get the roof line done, then we can start to fill in with colored lights in the bushes along the driveway and the trees in the front yard.
At one point in the house hunting over the past couple of years I think I mentioned that a non-critical but also non-trivial consideration in looking a potential new houses was, “Are there lots of places where I can hang Christmas lights?” Some potential houses might have been on streets with more traffic, and at least one had even bigger roof lines and opportunities for hanging more lights, but this place is going to be pretty magnificent I think.
Updates to follow…
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