[nfbmi-talk] Western Wayne County Chapter Christmas celebration

Fri Dec 4 04:53:39 UTC 2009

Last call to one and all to attend our annual Christmas party meeting this 
Saturday at the Senate in Dearborn. A highlight will be the drawing for a 
fifth generation ipod nano and the Christmas Stocking full of goodies knit 
by Laura White. There will be lots of meat balls, mashed potatoes, and gravy 
along with brosted chicken, Greek green beans, lemon rice soup, pie and rice 
pudding and all you can drink. Free gift card give aways, a Christmas 
package auction and plenty of making music will help make the occasion a 
good time to be had by all.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fred Wurtzel" <f.wurtzel at comcast.net>
To: "'NFB of Michigan List'" <nfbmi-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 4:14 PM
Subject: Re: [nfbmi-talk] more christmas tree light questions


> Hi,
>
> I just talked to Larry, and it is hilarious that he said to start at the
> top.  I guess it is what you are used to.  I plug them in and start at the
> bottom, as I mentioned.  Regarding getting them to stay, this is no 
> problem.
> They do not need to be at the very ends of the branches.  I just lay the
> wire across the branches on the first tier that I have arbitrarily decided
> to start on. On an artificial tree, the branches are pretty uniformly 
> lined
> up from left to right.  It is like a shelf and the wire lays on there and
> the needles provide enough resistance to prevent them from sliding off,
> unless you have a cat who gets rambunctious.
>
> Regarding working bulbs, this is a visual thing, unless you have a light
> detector.  Our newest color identifier has a light detector on it.  It has
> come in handy several times, though I would not have purposely purchased
> one.Another way may be to plug them a while and touch them to see if they
> are warm.  These little lights may not be as easy to test that way, I am 
> not
> sure.Here in Lansing, the electric company is exchanging 2 strings of 
> lights
> for free for  2 strings of LED lights.  I have no experience with LED
> lights, but I assume they are much more reliable than incondesscent 
> lights.
>
> As Larry and I said, everyone critiques their own tree and thinks how they
> would improve it.  It need not meet some unwritten standard of excellence.
> Trial and error is a really good teacher.  By the time you are my age it
> will be eligible for the House Beautiful Tree of the Year competition.
> (smile)  Christmas is a family togetherness activity.  Creating traditions
> and collecting ornaments each year that remind us of people and events is
> what makes a tree a joy.
>
> One year, we had a 2 foot tall tree that I bought a few days before
> Christmas.  I brought it home when we lived in Ypsilanti and put it on top
> of a table.  We had 1 string of lights and maybe a dozen or less 
> ornements.
> The next morning all the needles had fallen off.  It was just a bare
> skeleton of a tree.  We loved that tree and all our friends had fun 
> looking
> at it and talking about it.  Here I am 32 years later retelling the story.
> That is what Christmas is all about.
>
> I love Christmas.  I make it a point to tell everyone Merry Christmas.  I 
> am
> not offended if they tell me happy some other holiday that is meaningful 
> to
> them.  Sharing our traditions is a good thing that we all may benefit 
> from.
> This may give me an opportunity to share my faith in Jesus with them, or
> not, depending on their openness.
>
> All that to talk about having fun putting up a tree.  Don't worry.  Have 
> fun
> and enjoy your time with Nick and anyone else who happens to be around
> during the decorating process.
>
> Warmest Regards,
>
>
> Fred
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org [mailto:nfbmi-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org]
> On Behalf Of trising
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2009 1:06 PM
> To: NFB of Michigan List
> Subject: [nfbmi-talk] more christmas tree light questions
>
> Thanks Larry and Fred for the ideas. I am still not exactly sure how to do
> this. Sorry for being dense. The thing is, everyone has always urged me to
> stay away while they were stringing lights, so I would not inadvertently
> step on them or tangle them. I have three boxes of lights, so we can fill
> the whole tree, but I do not really understand how they actually go on.
> Ornaments have hooks or loops that go over the tree. The lights do not 
> have
> anything like that. I wish I could do this once with someone who knows 
> what
> they are doing but would not mind showing me. How do you get them to stay 
> on
>
> with no fasteners? How do you know the strand is working with no vision. 
> Do
> you start at a plug or at another end. Sorry I am being dense. I have 
> never
> tried to do them before. Nick can reach much better than I, and he is 
> going
> to try and help Grandma with them. She helps us a lot, and means well, but
> she is not at all good at explaining in words.
>
>
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