Friday, November 28, 2025
Time: 1:40 PM
Song: I’ll Be Your Mirror
Artist: The Velvet Underground
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on shuffle while installing Christmas lights
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/4PINSJIlBWsnVeveicq1S8?si=73647f1dcb7a407f
My late father-in-law Lee is always on my mind when I putting up our outside Christmas lights display. Lee always had a nice display at his house, and he always had a saying that he wouldn’t put them up until it was cold enough out to keep his beer cold. I suspect when he was younger maybe he was serious about that, but over the last decade or so of his life, I doubt he even drank one.
Still, I like to repeat that line when people ask while I always wait until after Thanksgiving to put up our light. The last few weeks were unseasonable warm, so a lot of displays have been blaring in the evenings.
Today was my day (although I did put a few up yesterday morning before the Thanksgiving festivities set in), and I was outside by 7:30. Temperatures were in the 20s, but there was little wind and sunshine. Not a bad day, and it would have kept my beer cold, had. I chose to drink any.
This year’s display is a little bigger than previous years thanks in part to Lee. His wife, Kathy, found tubs of lights above their garage filled with boxes of unopened lights. There was also a tub of extension cords, which came in handy.
I also picked up two blow-mold snowmen and a pair of candles from my parents. They didn’t use them anymore, so I found places to add them to my layout. I thought about waiting until tomorrow to get those, but the weather was nice, and there are reports that we could get a snowstorm tomorrow.
Now, I am just waiting until it gets dark enough to turn the lights on. I will think of Lee. I will think of my parents.
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