More about the dog bone tree part 1

 

Sitting on the sofa, Chromebook in lap, the view of the above chair was bleak. I had decided not to put anything there. Suddenly, I sprang slowly jacked myself up, walked 10 steps to the closet, lifted down the trash bag, removed the used to be dog bone tree, and sat it on the table and plugged it in. Done... NOPE! 

Above is fresh out of the closet this year. I just could not stand it. I fussed and ranted about how much I did not like it. I said, I am just going to sit it on the curb, and someone will take it. It's been in the closet for 3 years because I don't like it.

The tree went from Dog Bones gift in 2005 to Rose garland and changed every year until 2011 when I had a bright idea of using only ornaments that cost no more than a dollar. For five dollars I had a Dollar Tree, Dollar Tree from the Dollar Tree Store.

below is how it looked when I first did it.

Years passed; the PRE-wired lights Died.

One hour of wire cutters removed the wires and lights.

the tree was stripped and really pretty.

I added bright white fairy lights and five dollars spent at Dollar Tree Store and i loved it.

The lights died quickly because i left it on almost every waking hour. Plus I left it out until the end of Feb for a couple of years.

I ordered the same lights, the kind that are USB plug in charger, but accidently got warm white not bright white.

I was aggravated and just wrapped the lights on top of the ornaments instead of stripping the tree and starting over

You can see by the tree at the top, it was not a winner.  I simply put in in a bag and put in the closet and there it has sat

Until a few days ago. 

After an hour of whining about the ugly tree, I grabbed it and sat down in that chair with it between my knees and ripped everything on it off.  

The search for lights, began and I took all the junk out of the closet, looking for the set of bright white fairy lights that I remembered placing in the closet.

I found a whole stash of lights everything but what i wanted.

Amazon let me down, they had no bright white except battery.

I had mini warm lights, 20 to the strand and put them on, it needed 20 more,

to many dark spots.

I loved it. but it had dark spots. I scoured Amazon for a string of 100 fairy lights like the ones on the middle tree, not battery powered.

 I drove to Publix, CVS and Dollar General, NO! Lights!

Saturday at Walmart the app said they had them, on 3 different aisles, I spent 30 minutes searching for them with help from 2 different employees

The app said they had them. I thought, I will just get a second strand of what is on the tree, the only one they had was 50. I bought that

Bob had said, before I left, why don't you get blue lights. I said I don't like blue lights, of course they had a 20 light BLUE and I felt bad because I always pick what i want so I bought them

to be continuted