Colored
By ingrid
@ridingbet (66857)
Philippines
December 2, 2017 3:46am CST
When we had the more-than-5-minutes power interruption a few days ago, our living room was so dark but there was illumination from the colored lights in the Christmas tree fixed by my sister. You see, the tree is already < than 2 decades old, and it is losing some of the evergreen leaves, but my sister made it look full of leaves. She also placed the 4 small decorations of Santa Claus.
The colored lights are actually solar lights. I asked my sister how it will collect solar power when it is inside the house. My sister said, surely it will because our LED bulbs in the living room are switched on. Of course there are 2 AA batteries as well, in the box that is directed towards the LED bulb.
The lights don’t twinkle; they are steady. But because of those tiny lights, I believe it is already showing the spirit of Christmas.
For sure your trees are up, am I right?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
even just a Christmas lantern, i think that is enough to show that the spirit of Christmas lives in your home
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@JustBhem (70555)
• Davao, Philippines
3 Dec 17
@ridingbet
But I like to have our Christmas lights hang there.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
@JustBhem then maybe you can ask your BF to help you hang your Christmas lights?
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
thanks. we will keep it lit on Christmas and New Year's eves.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
@peachpurple every year. my sister carefully keeps them clean. but no, we will put down our tree in January.
@peachpurple (13884)
• Malaysia
3 Dec 17
@ridingbet oh so you keep your tree until next year?
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@LadyDuck (457973)
• Switzerland
3 Dec 17
@ridingbet I also use rechargeable batteries, I buy them from Ikea, they are inexpensive and those I use outside for the garden lamps are lasting from several years.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
@LadyDuck really? that is great. my sister would always recharge the batteries during daytime because they are already drained out for the night.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
the light from the LED bulb added to the brightness of the light. the batteries that we use are all rechargeable and are already months to years old. we don't buy new rechargeable batteries.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
i remember when i was in grade 6; my father (+) always lit the Christmas bulbs of our tree and kept the living room dark.
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My tree isn't up yet. Hopefully very soon.
. Yes, mine is up, but I found out the power point in that corner had been killed by the builders accidentally (and I never knew or remembered that one to ask them to fix it. No Christmas lighting because of that @ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
really? was your electric post taken down by the builders? they should have repaired the damage.
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@YrNemo (20261)
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3 Dec 17
@ridingbet Complicated story. Yes, it was their fault, they asked us to point out all the power points in the house that got affected (two years ago) so that they could fix it. We missed this one 
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
that was how the tree looked like when the power got interrupted for several minutes. the picture on the left was taken with light of the camera flashed.
at first, i took the shot at the right, and when only the color lights appeared, i switched the flash of the camera; hence, the picture at the left.
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@Letranknight2015 (51509)
• Philippines
2 Dec 17
My trees are up but there's no lights on it.
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@ridingbet (66857)
• Philippines
3 Dec 17
a house without a Christmas tree is dull, but a tree without lights is still a Christmas tree. maybe your tree has many ornaments, right?
