And The Lights Came On

I hung strings of icycle lights at the roof line of our house in the front, but the string of lights hanging in front of the garage had a large section in which the lights did not work. I went to two different holiday decoration stores to find similar icycle lights to replace the faulty ones and perhaps purchase an additional string of lights, but I was not able to find strings of light remotely similar to the ones I'm using. Either technology has moved onto LED lights and phased out the old styles, or the Port Townsend stores were just too small to carry these particular lights. I decided that I didn't want to purchase all new lights, so I thought of ways to make due with the current strings of lights by adding some small strings that I already have into the malfunctioning string.

When I arrived home from my trip to town, I surveyed the lights as I drove into my driveway and was surprised to find that the malfunctioning string of lights had changed to fully functioning. All the lights were brightly shining and lit the front of the garage beautifully. And I didn't have to do anything to make that happen...

When I first noticed that some of the lights were not working in that string, I had the thought that the lights would eventually come on and waited for that to happen. They didn't light the first night, so I figured that they were not going to light up, after all. Fortunately, I was not able to replace them immediately and they lit up a few days later. Had I found a suitable replacement string of lights, I would not have noticed that the lights did work. How wonderful, then, that I was not able to find replacement lights for the delinquent lights. It's fun to play with reality!