Ourdoor Christmas Light Put Up

We were at the Manti Temple this morning and made it back home around two this afternoon.  Changed clothes and went right to work on removing the rest of the outdoor lights.  As I removed them left them on the lawn where the sun was shining.  Our house faces the north and in the winter half of the front lawn is in the shade.

I watched a You Tube video showing how to put Christmas lights away.  They used a box, but I chose to use the small tote.  This tote is filled with strings of Christmas lights.  I fed on string in on the bottom of the tote in a circular motions.  I then put a half sheet of newspaper on top of it.  I put in another string the same way.  I continued  with more strings until I had over a dozen light in the tote.

I left two extension cords on the lawn last night.  I gathered them up and hung them with the rest of the cords in house three.

 I got all of the lights in five or six totes.  I put new labels on each tote to help me next December.

I put three totes on the bottom shelf and stacked the other totes on top of each other against the west wall.  They will be good there for awhile.

Yesterday Robert and began work on the raised beds.  I dismantled the rest of the bench.  Most of the parts are the 2x4's at the back left.


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Christmas Presents are Wrapped

This morning I had planned to fix our satalite dish, so we would be able to watch TV.  Carol had other plans.  I'm not going to go into much detail.   She began to wrap the Christmas presents.  I helped her.  We finished around lunch time.

We got a good start.  The roofer began their work which was evident from the walking on the roof.  The door bell rang and answering it Mike, the foreman, wanted to get TV working.  I suggested that he needn't fix it.  I could do it later.  He insisted on fixing it.  His helper came in.  We went to menu and then to setting which showed the amount of signal that was coming in.  Most showed "0" and should be 85 or higher.  After a few adjustment all five signal lines were 85 or higher.  We have TV now.  Direct TV service person was scheduled to be here in the afternoon of December 22.  I cancelled it.

We went to Fillmore made arrangements to get a new home insurance home policy.  We need to go in later and sign all the papers.

The roofers have most of the shingles on the garage and the south part of the house.  They removed the shingles from the northeast part of the roof.

My table saw has been in the garage for fifteen years or so.  It is plugged into a 220 volt line.  The saw cord is too short to reach the wall and lay on the floor.  Every time I walk on the left side of the saw I have to make a high stem get over it.  Frequently I would not step high enough and pull the cord out of the wall.  I bought the supplies needed  to make a four foot extension cord.  I did it this evening before and after supper.  It cord was heavy duty, but I managed to make it work.  I took it out to the garage it works perfectly.