A Sense of Community...

Since I'm doing this a 2:00am I must say 'yesterday' was Sunday. After stake conference Claude and I hurried out to Sadieville. Our little town was putting up Christmas lights. Several of the people on the Friends of Sadieville Renaissance were there and we had a great time decorating the old railroad depot which is our City Hall, the caboose and the pavilion. Claude and I had putting lights in the tree duty. Last week he purchased a really cool tool that helps reach high to put lights on things without having to use a ladder. It is a pole that you can telescope out to different lengths. I has a gripper claw like thing on one end and a handle on the other. You set the pole for the length you need to reach the height on the gutter or tree or whatever your reaching for. Then you grip the string of lights with the gripper part and reach up and get the lights where you want them and let go of handle and 'voila' the lights are in place. We put the strings of lights on 4 of the trees by the pavilion. Then it was time to put the lights on the gutter on the front of City Hall. Now the versatility of this little lighting kit things really comes in handy. You attach clips to the strings of icicle lights. The clips have a little circle with has grooves in it. You take the claw off the end of the stick and it has a plastic end that has grooves like a screw. These fit into the clip circles and you twist a bit and they stick screws into the clip circles. Then you can reach up with that stick and push the clip onto the gutter. When it is set, you unscrew the stick from the clip and there you have it. We found it still helped to have someone on a ladder to get the string of lights to turn so Claude could screw the stick to the clip circle. In a matter of about 3 hours we had all the garland, lights, and bows our little town could possible need. The little train is out in front on the railing at the depot (City Hall). There are wreaths in all the right places and candles in the windows of City Hall. We won't officially turn on the lights until December 1st. As the process was winding down I wandered over by my hubby and told him, "If just feel so good to be part of a little community and do community things." It was a totally positive experience and was great to share it with those who live in our little town of Sadieville.