For those of you who have talked to me in the last few days, you are sure to have heard me cursing my Christmas lights. We spent most of the day last Sunday tinkering in the yard to ensure that we had the most decked out house on the block. At 7:30pm in the dark of night, we plugged the last strand of lights in and, pop, out went an entire section of lights. DAMN! I told Jim not to worry about it and that we would fix it on Thursday when we were both off again.
Thursday came, and we spend another several hours adding to and replacing fuses on the multiple strands. After about 2 1/2 hours I delighted to hear the Christmas music coming from our new light show box and was thrilled that they were finally working again. We left for dinner with one of Jim's dad's friends just after dusk and we all smiled as the timer turned all of the lights on. Although there were several bulbs out on the colored lights around the gutters, I figured I could switch those out this weekend. By the time returned at 8:30pm, the lights were out AGAIN! Damn a second time!! I thought for sure it was the timer that I forgot to reset the time on but I was wrong. It would have to wait since I was tired and had 3 boys to get ready for bed.
At 5:45am yesterday, I was roaming around my yard in pajamas and bare feet (by the way it was somewhere around 28 degrees outside at the time) pushing all the reset buttons on the GFI's, testing strands, checking the circuit breaker box....NOTHING! Convinced it was a bigger problem than just a blown fuse, I got ready for work and figured Jim would spend most of the day Saturday or Sunday working on it. My worst fear was that there was too much pulling on the outside box and that I'd have to lose some of my decorations.
God Bless our friend Mike Mazur. Aside from bringing a bottle of wine for us to enjoy last night, he brought his magic head lamp and fixed my lights! It ended up being a corroded extension cord plug. It was well worth the $30 on pizza and the four screaming kids to have my lights going again. I will post photos as soon as the lights come on tonight. Merry Christmas everyone. Mine is a little bit "brighter" now!
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Pam, you have me rolling on the floor here. One word that truly describes you is determined. If only I were your neighbor and saw you out there at 5:45am. I can't wait to see the pictures!
Mike saves the day - or is that, night? Anyway, can't wait to see all your festive decorations. Glad the mystery has been solved - I know how frustrating it was!
i have had similar problems with our lights this year too!!
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