Electric lights replaced dangerous candles in the early 1900s and the popularity of Christmas lights exploded after World War II.
I have had outside lights since we moved to Spring Grove in 1992. While in Round Lake Beach, Illinois, I had a problem because we didn't have outside outlets and I don't know if there were already outside timers even if I had the outlets.
Those outside timers are by far the key for me to have outside lights. If there were none, I wouldn't have outside lights. Few things in life are less enjoyable than going outside into sub-freezing weather at 10 or 11 pm from a nice warm house to turn off lights. It just wouldn't happen.
Plus, when we had our house built, I got four outside outlets.
Then, Emproprise brings up another distinct question, blinking or non-blinking lights? He says non-blinking.
Most of mine are non-blinking, but I do have a few strands of chasers at either end of the display as well as one of those blinking spiral trees. And I do have a cascading strand in the gazebo.
Enough Christmas Talk for Eleven More Months. --RoadDog
QUOTES: I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not at all pleased to read the description in the catalogue:- "No good in bed, but does fine against a wall."-- Eleanor Roosevelt.
Being an account of some things I'm interested in, what I'm doing, and reflections on my past, especially music.
Listen to this man. Seven years of college, you know. Trying to reason with 2020 and, now, 2022.
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