Oh Christmas Tree!

We like to get our tree out and decorated on Thanksgiving weekend or as soon thereafter as possible. Our long, dark winter nights benefit from twinkling lights! Unfortunately for us the lights on our artificial pre-strung Christmas tree had reached the end of their life and we had a lot of dead bulbs. We looked for a new tree, but couldn't find what we wanted, so we unstrung all the lights on the tree and then we put on lights we had in our Christmas boxes. It was not fun and it took three hours of hard work. (What happened to those photos? Lost with the dryer socks I guess.)