The purple paint was peeling

For give me, I couldn't resist the alliteration. Tonight after work, Grandpa and I removed all the Christmas lights from the house and fence that had been up there since about Thanksgiving. I can't remember if we put them up before or after. But I remember that they had been up a long, long time.

We wanted to open our front windows this weekend and couldn't open them very far because of the little colored lights that we're hanging over the window.

A couple of nights ago, I tried to pick up an extension cord that had sat in the snow for four months and found out that although the snow had melted, it was still frozen to the ground.

Well, tonight was the night. The lights on the window came down and the extension got rolled up and stuck in a box in the garage for next Christmas.

One thing I noticed, however, is that the purple Christmas lights on the fence were all starting to peel. The glass wasn't peeling, the purple paint on the lights were. Now what caused it flake off? Was it the heat? Was it poor paint? Or was it the fact that they had to endure one of the toughest winters on record?

I don't know the answer, but I know we'll have to replace the purple lights before next year.

In case you forgot what our house looked like when it was decorated and deluged with snow (more alliteration), I'ved posted this picture. I think there are even a couple of visible purple lights before they lost their paint.

Please, Lord, no more winters like this one.

Grandpa and I were so delighted to have the darn Christmas lights down that we celebrated with a dinner out at Bonanza!