I went to town tonight after work and found that Christmas lights were 70% off in the store that I was in. SCORE right? Now did I need them? Heck no. But was I going to buy them? Well ya! The ones that we had bought a couple of weeks ago for the front of the house were not on sale, so for some reason I thought that if I could buy these cheap well this is kind of a revenge to all those light factories in the world. OK, I know that sounds pretty dumb (even to me it does) but that’s what I was thinking. So into my cart they go. There were 3 huge rolls of lights left on the shelf and 2 extension cords and I felt like I won the lottery or something. Now to just to figure out where I should hang them.
Once I got home I went straight to work. The first thing to do is was to figure out where I can add another extension cord for the lights. I had a couple hooked together close by for the lights on an old wagon and it was the perfect spot to add just one more. But when I was messing with it, I got a little tingle. Weird. Now it was pretty wet outside and the lights were wet and I was kinda standing on wet grass, but why was I getting a shock? It wasn’t a bad shock so I grabbed the lights and well let’s just say that this time it had a little more juice to it. Literally! But I didn’t die or anything and I wanted to get the new lights up on the calf shed before Daryl came home so I kept working. With my new extension cord ready for the lights going up tonight and having the extension ladder and step ladder beside me, I was in business! I was working fast because it was still pretty cold and I wanted to surprise Daryl when he came home. After dropping quite a few nails because my hands were so cold, I did eventually got them all up on the shed. Now what I thought was going to take at least two of the light rolls that I bought, only took one roll. And just as I was hanging the last of the lights up, I turned around and saw the truck just pulling into the yard. Yup it was Daryl. He agreed that they looked good and said that he was going to start calling me Clark Griswold from the movie Christmas Vacation because of how I keep adding lights to the farm. Then I asked him about the extension cords and that I was getting shocks from them. He gave me one of those looks like I was speaking in Alien tongue or something and said… “What?” I told him again and I was just worried that it might start a fire. But finding out that it’ll just keep kicking out the breakers – that’s not such a big deal. I just have to make sure that I unplug them before I mess with them again.
But later we were driving on the highway that’s just across the section from our farm and I noticed a glow off in the distance towards our farm. So I don’t know if it was just how the air was that night or not, but when we were talking about it in the car Daryl thought that it could be the lights on the farm. And to quote Clark Griswold from the movie “That’s all part of the experience, honey”